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A personal journey to find compromise on the AlbertaB.C. pipeline debate

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APRIL OUR 5, 2018 ASSETSISSUE Whistler25.14 looks at its $810 million in infrastructure assets

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WHISTLER’S WEEKLY NEWSMAGAZINE SEARCH & RESCUE The province gives SAR groups $18.6 million over three years

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34 Stuck in the middle A personal journey to find compromise on the Alberta-B.C. pipeline debate. - By Steven Threndyle

16 INVENTORY ASSESSMENT

The Resort

44 POWER PEIF

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32 SCIENCE MATTERS Children are telling adults their future is at stake. Those who believe shortterm economic gain is more important than protecting the biosphere on which all life depends are betraying them.

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50 FORK IN THE ROAD Oil is one hot item these days. Only this time columnist Glenda Bartosh is talking about canola and palm oil, not the black stuff we’re still pumping out of the ground like there’s no tomorrow.

52 EPICURIOUS Underground sensation BReD has opened a brick-and-mortar shop in Creekside. This

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56 NOTES FROM THE BACK ROW Movie columnist Feet Banks looks at Dumbo, which he calls more of a bummer than a tear-jerker, though it’s director Tim Burton’s best movie in years.

58 MUSEUM MUSINGS A Whistler Museum staffer pores through the archives to explore the history of choral singing groups in the community.

62 PIQUECAL On Thursday, the Whistler Museum is hosting Whistler’s World Cups: From Fiasco to Fiesta, which will feature Rob Boyd and Alex Kleinman discussing what went into putting on these high-profile events.

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New SAR funding a good start EIGHTEEN MILLION square kilometres.

The longest coastline in the world.

And a population, that in general, loves going outside, with the majority of us enjoying all the snow sliding sports, hiking, camping and more in our great outdoors.

That’s a lot of people across a huge nation.

Here in B.C., our “Super Natural” province attracted $18.4 billion in revenue

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from its visitors, which translates into $1.2 billion in tax for the province—and you can bet that many of these visitors were doing activities in our outdoors, and some of them needed rescue.

These are just a few statistics to get you thinking about the context for discussions search-and-rescue (SAR) stakeholders are having right now.

Consider also how these organizations have evolved from the civil defence days of the 1950s to today, where in B.C., 2,500 SAR members are involved in over 1,600 callouts annually (more than the rest of Canada combined). In 1991 incident call-outs were at only 400—that’s a 25-per-cent growth in less than three decades in B.C. The growing busyness of our SAR organizations has led to predictable issues: A lot more paperwork for them, an incessant need to search for funds for their operations and the need to train at a higher and higher level.

The downward pressure on B.C.’s 80 SAR groups has been reaching critical status for about the last decade, with lead agency BC Search and Rescue

Association (BCSARA) finally managing to get government’s attention when a SAR volunteer died during a swift rescue event in 2012, and when SAR volunteers became so concerned in 2014 about their personal liability if rescues went wrong that many considered giving up their service.

Something had to change.

BCSARA undertook some gamechanging research and asked the government to consider changing the model for how search and rescue is funded in the province, which in turn would help with the almost crippling level of paperwork most SARs have to do, as well as help with equipment purchases and training.

A 2015 report by BCSARA estimates that right now $1.65 million is needed annually for training, $800,000 is needed for protective equipment costs, licensing and insurance is about $400,000 and radio licensing is about $75,000. Another $1.08 million is needed for other support funding for things such as critical incident stress management and core training. In all, BCSARA calculates it needs a maximum of $12.7 million.

Last weekend, we saw the NDP announce $18.6 million in funding across three years for B.C.’s SAR groups.

It came not a moment too soon, as it is likely that search-and-rescue volunteers were chaffing at being left out of the recently released provincial budget despite their lead organization being in discussions on the topic with the government.

When you consider, said BCSARA, that it has been estimated that the volunteer time on response, based on a RCMP constable’s wages would exceed $20,000,000— $50,000,000 if you include training and administration—adopting a new funding model is a good return on investment.

This new funding is a great start in

supporting organizations that ski resorts like Whistler have become reliant on to rescue its visitors and residents alike.

Covering the period between March 1, 2018 and March 1, 2019, Whistler SAR crews mobilized 59 times, up slightly from the 56 mobilizations the previous year. Of those responses, 33 took place in the summer, and 32 were in the winter months.

But what is truly needed is what BCSARA is pushing for—a new funding model where a Search and Rescue Fund is established in legislation, and into which funding flows from various sources, and from which a board oversees the distribution of the funds.

Something like this operates in Colorado (www.colorado.gov/pacific/ dola/search-and-rescue-fund) and here in B.C. we have the Habitat Conservation Trust Fund (HCTF), established under the Wildlife Act that receives revenue collected from surcharges on hunting, fishing and other licenses.

Monies within the SAR Fund would be distributed to SAR groups using a formula based on the type of response capability (search, swiftwater, rope, avalanche) recognizing the training, equipment and other costs associated with maintaining that service. A set amount would be provided each fiscal year to pay insurance and licensing fees, and for training upon receipt of training plan.

There is much more to the plan (www. bcsara.com/projects/support-model), including possible sources of funding, which could come from small surcharges added to selected fees, licenses or types of registrations (think ATVs).

Clearly, there is still much work to do but it looks like our SAR volunteers and their leadership are finally at the table.

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Time to make choices to stop greenhouse emissions As I began reading Clare Ogilvie’s “Opening Remarks” in last week’s Pique (March 21), my level of optimism initially increased.

However, it was short lived as I was drawn to the page adjacent to Clare’s remarks. There was a full-page ad promoting heli adventures.

There are more ways than many of us imagined to generate greenhouse-gas emissions while in theory enjoying a natural environment.

How ironic that this ad luring people to use a helicopter, a gluttonous, fuel-consuming, greenhouse-gas emitting machine, should follow an article relating the urgent need to reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions in order to save the planet from imminent disaster.

This clearly illustrates that profit before preservation is a business fundamental that is nearly impossible to break.

As I continued reading Clare’s “Opening Remarks,” I was stunned to read that Councillor Ralph Forsyth doesn’t want to pay for the Community Energy and Climate Action Plan coordinator. It is difficult to believe that anyone living in Whistler hasn’t experienced the effects of global-warming-related climate change.

If you ski or snowboard, you probably

think we already have a great source of people ready to work on this issue. So it is up to us: Do we maintain our current lifestyles and continue to sacrifice the environment and the planet, or are we willing to sacrifice our current lifestyles to preserve the environment and the planet?

The choice is yours.

Think carefully before you decide what kind of a legacy you want to leave future generations because the one we are currently leaving them is not very appealing or fair.

Bryce Leigh // Whistler

Re-thinking Lost Lake Park use in winter

noticed that the Showcase T-bar was moved to the right a few years ago, that so far this season the Horstman T-bar hasn’t run, that the walk from the top of the Showcase T-bar to the Blowhole gains twice the elevation that it did 25 years ago, and the Blackcomb Glacier has melted so much there is now an ice cave.

Then there was the forest-fire smoke that cloaked Whistler and much of southwestern B.C. for the last two summers burning 1,385,000 hectares of forest in B.C. last year.

That is an area 419 times Whistler Blackcomb’s total terrain.

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The effects of climate change are all around us and are clearly visible. How could anyone not want to do all they could to stop global warming?

My initial reaction was, ‘Ralph, pull your head out of the sand and deal with reality.’ But after a few minutes, I realized that for the sake of the planet, it would be better if Ralph left his head in the sand and got out of the way so that people who truly want to limit—and ideally stop—climate change can get to work.

As 150 Whistler students signed a letter outlining their climate-change concerns, I

Walking and hiking are common pastimes for residents and visitors alike. Spontaneous and free, they offer a healthy alternative to expensive skiing.

The Valley Trail system, at one point, leads directly into Lost Lake Park, via Blackcomb Way and Lost Lake Road, and is a scenic destination for many needing an invigourating winter walk.

But then people come to a barrier and signage warning of fines should pedestrians continue along the road toward Lost Lake.

This comes as an unpleasant surprise to many people. I share their dismay and disbelief when they find there is no alternative route offered.

The fact that the entire Lost Lake Park lands are reserved for paying cross-country skiers and snowshoers is resulting in animosity, and a feeling of discrimination and deprivation.

Local people in particular find themselves surrounded by roads and trails in the area, but with nowhere to go without guilt or penalty.

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This is an issue that can easily be corrected, with minimum cost and effort.

Wouldn’t it be (great) if the Resort Municipality of Whistler could use the grooming machines to set a pedestrian path from the end of Lost Lake Road down to the shoreline, with possibilities to permit a short stretch of multipurpose use along the cross-country track (similar to the portion of Valley Trail between the Fairmont Chateau Whistler, to the Passivhaus, and on to Whistler Village)?

Everyone would be happy, with skiers safely isolated from pedestrians, and all with a recreational goal fulfilled.

Lost Lake Park has always been open for public enjoyment from April to November, so no access for pedestrians is a winter problem.

Let’s trust that winter 2020 will find …

Lost Lake Park open, even if only partially, to non-skiers and snowshoers. This will provide an affordable, healthy, outdoor recreation option currently hard to find, and result in improved reputation as a family destination benefitting everyone.

Dana Wessel // Whistler

Whistler students go on climate strike Kudos to Whistler Councillor Arthur De Jong for listening and talking to the students who marched in the village on Friday, March 15 in solidarity with over one million students around the world, marking “FridaysForFuture,” a school strike for climate.

Youth want elected officials to take action on climate change. Youth want us to work for a more sustainable future. They are not naive about Whistler being a destination resort and our complicity in a dependence on fossil fuels. However, they have some good ideas for action, including educating people from all over the world about climate change and sustainability, creating our own carbon-offset program, saving some old-growth forest.

When I picked up the March 21 copy of the Pique, I had just arrived back from the Climate Reality Leadership Corps Training in Atlanta, Georgia where I had participated in a “FridaysForFuture” event.

Imagine my excitement when I saw the coverage of the Whistler students’ initiative! I am looking for a positive response from council.

The biggest kudos go to the students themselves and their organizers, Matthew Ogilvie-Turner and Diesel Kopek. They should inspire us all to work for a better environment.

Bobbie Rathbun // Climate Reality Leader Roots of Empathy Instructor, Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium

Raising Our Voices success!

Wow! The fifth annual Raising Our Voices for International Women’s Day, a fundraiser for the Howe Sound Women’s Centre, was an incredible night.

While final fundraising figures aren’t in yet, we already know that the event was a huge success. Eighteen female-led acts performed in one epic night of community, music and celebration to support the Howe

Sound Women’s Centre.

Forty-one performers donated their time and talent to this event. The performances were incredible. Heart-felt solos, a five-member a capella performance, a six-piece string group, a seven-piece guitar ensemble, and several full bands provided something for all tastes.

Performers lit up the Arts Centre stage with excellent show support made possible by incredible Arts Whistler staff and volunteers.

This year’s performer experience was taken to the next level by the support of Arts Whistler and the talented stage crew, many of who volunteered their time. This crew made us sound better and feel more confident. Thank you Dean Feser, Tom Graham, Tim Smith, Rajan Das, Stephen Vogler and Matt McInnis.

Both Arts Whistler and the Howe Sound Women’s Centre provided staff and resources to plan and execute this event. Thank you to Mo Douglas for elevating the show with your MC expertise, Imogen Osborne for running the event, Stephanie McColm for managing a hectic stage, Anna Lynch, Giselle Wolfe and Rebecca MacKay for keeping the audience happy and the bar stocked!

HSWC staff and volunteers led the fundraising initiative and showed up early and stayed late to ensure the event’s success.

Arts Whistler and HSWC have demonstrated, two years running, what a great partnership looks like.

More than 400 community members came out to support the event. I can’t wait to find out what was raised; people were very generous!

Thank you. See you next year!

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McConkey lives forever March 26, 2019 marked 10 years since the passing of one of the best, if not the best, freeskier of all time.

McConkey lives forever.

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World Championship Thanks From Feb. 25 to March 9, the 2019 BMW IBSF Bobsleigh and Skeleton World Championships were hosted by Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton at the Whistler Sliding Centre.

There were many bodies behind the scenes that made the most prominent sliding sport event outside of the Olympic Winter Games happen—notably those who made safe and fair sliding for all nations happen.

To all the Whistler Sport Legacies guest services staff, cleaners, snow plow guys, shuttle drivers, thank you so much for your time.

To the track medical responders and race doctors, your work, care and attention was professional and wonderful as always.

Once again, the track crew at the Sliding Centre proved why they are considered among the best in the world particularly by the athletes— thank you for the awesome ice prep making it safe, fast and pretty with your hours and hours of work.

To those high up in the tower, many thanks

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR for keeping us on time and entertained!

Finally, to the Whistler officials crew, an outstanding job by everyone, which has garnered high praise from athletes, coaches and the IBSF. Bobsleigh Race Director John Rosen and myself cannot thank you enough for your dedication, professionalism, energy, and kinship. It was my pleasure to work with you all.

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Train safety should be questioned Whistler

Train safety is a big issue. As it should be.

Safety in general should always be a priority, especially for a sector that, literally, rolls through all our neighbourhoods carrying all forms of hazardous and dangerous loads.

Assessing the safety of something can be hard. We generally look for key indicators of safety first. Like cleanliness, safety vests, hard hats and training. These things make us all think that safety is also a priority for “them,” be they the police, fire fighters, construction workers, banks or even rail workers.

One thing must also be considered when assessing the safety of something, or in fact the culture of safety that surrounds it: Does it look and feel safe? Is there an overt effort to maintain safety? Fair observations, for sure. So let’s consider how safe you feel, or how safe something is, when it is totally plastered with graffiti.

Would you feel safe when the police car pulled up and it was covered in spray bombs and graffiti tags? Maybe even the police logo is totally covered? How about that fire truck with a few dozens tags and pieces on it. Or, how about a UPS or FedEx truck covered in multiple layers of illegal graffiti. Safe service?

I am in the graffiti-removal business. Have been for 22 years. Simply put, things that are managed well and kept safe are not completely covered in illegal graffiti. This is a fact.

The frequent derailment of trains that race through our Canadian communities, completely covered in illegal graffiti, are simply not safe.

Look at them.

There is a reason this is the last frontier for graffiti removal. This is literally the only sector in Canada that does not give a hoot about

such a simple safety initiative as cleaning up your act.

In some cases, the graffiti actually covers the detailed information on the contents of the rail car. Don’t need to explain how this could be problematic.

“...let’s consider how safe you feel, or how safe something is, when it is totally plastered with graffiti.”

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With more oil shipments on what obviously appears to be a very unsafe system, we should all be worried.

Have a look for yourself.

Perri Domm // Whistler

Credit where credit is due The teams of groomers on both Whistler and Blackcomb have now set a new high on standards for grooming.

The acres and acres of seamless corduroy that greets us each morning is simply awesome.

Groomers, your skill abounds, and management, thanks for letting those skills surface.

Thank you all.

Tom Thomson // Whistler

Gender parity, as long as it’s pink I enjoyed Cathy Goddard’s article “Reel progress: a push for gender parity in the entertainment industry,” (Pique, March 7) which started with the line “Progress has been made.”

Progress everywhere except with the Pique production decision to paint it pink. (Cue eyeroll.)

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Backcountry Advisory AS OF WEDNESDAY MARCH 27 Temperatures creeping up, up, up.

We’re fully into spring now, so be sure to pack sunglasses, sunscreen, and anything else you need to protect yourself from the powerful effect of the sun’s rays. Interestingly, protecting yourself from avalanches at this time is also about avoiding the sun. Those same rays that can prematurely age your skin will also be breaking down bonds between snow crystals near the surface of the snowpack.

As the bonds between the snow crystals break down, loose, wet avalanches become likely. These happen most dramatically on southerly aspects that are being hit by direct sunlight. Luckily, it’s easy to avoid this kind

of avalanche problem by staying away from steep, south-facing slopes during the heat of the day. Another warning sign you’d want to back off from steep terrain is if your skis are “punching” or sinking deep down into what feels like moist snow.

At this time of year, it’s generally a good idea to get an early start and an early end to your day if you’re planning to head into the backcountry. There will almost certainly be far more unstable slopes in the afternoon compared with the morning, so travelling early is a good way to lower your risk.

Spring touring can be a real joy. But please be careful to minimize exposure to unstable sunaffected slopes as the temperatures climb. n

CONDITIONS MAY VARY AND CAN CHANGE RAPIDLY Check for the most current conditions before heading out into the backcountry. Daily updates for the areas adjacent to Whistler Blackcomb are available at 604-938-7676, or surf to www.whistlerblackcomb.com/mountaininfo/snow-report#backcountry or go to www.avalanche.ca.

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Running: A love story “HELP ME. I don’t know what to do.”

I’m standing in the forest on a narrow trail in Squamish, less than 24 hours after my life has imploded. In front of me is a large black bear, lazily eating grass, completely unfazed by my loud and frantic pleas into my phone.

On the other end, my friend sits in a

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hair salon in Vancouver. She advises (and, I think, stifles laughter) that I have no choice but to speak loudly and bushwhack slowly around the animal if I want to make it back to her place—where I’m temporarily staying—before sundown.

She remains on the line as I follow her instructions.

“Mr. Bear,” I shout, hoping the respect will be reciprocated. “I’m having a really bad day. If you could just please leave me alone, that would be really great.”

I hustle through thick bushes, scraping my legs in the process, and he doesn’t move an inch.

This is just one by-product of a running addiction. Spiral far enough into its grip and you too might have to relieve

yourself in a rattlesnake-filled canyon in Death Valley, get cat-called by teens from a car in the Alberta suburbs, or nearly faint from heat while pounding pavement in Rwanda.

I’ve been a runner now longer than I haven’t. Thanks to my parents, who led by example, I started running as a teen with

time, regardless of inclement weather or low energy or dwindling motivation. Truly, if you can manage to lace up your shoes and get out the door, you can trick yourself into a better mood.

Running also gives you a sense of control, particularly useful during life’s many (oh so many) transitions. After

Why? Because it’s the only activity that makes me feel better 100 per cent of the time, regardless of inclement weather or low energy or dwindling motivation.

a Shockwave Discman and some extra CDs stuck into my hoodie pocket.

Into adulthood—as I moved from Ottawa to Vancouver to Edmonton to New York to Whistler, through university, grad school, first loves, broken hearts, new jobs, old struggles—running remained the one constant in my life.

Why? Because it’s the only activity that makes me feel better 100 per cent of the

university—mired in a mild depression from the dawning realization that adult life meant wake up, work, sleep, repeat—I signed up for my first marathon. Running hill repeats in the pouring January rain only deepened my commitment and gave me a much-needed goal.

After crossing the finish line of the Vancouver Marathon in a respectable time, I set my sights on the Boston Marathon—

considered the ultimate goal for amateur roadrunners.

Nearly derailed by the death of my grandfather just weeks before race day— which, astonishingly, was 10 years ago this year—I ran that fabled route with his photo tucked behind my race bib, close to my heart.

Moving to Whistler, though, changed everything. After a month of feeling out of place and entirely confused by my mountain-town surroundings, I found myself driving up the bumpy gravel road to Cheakamus Lake, determined to find a trail to run that would convince me the move wasn’t a terrible mistake.

Rounding corners surrounded by lush ferns, catching glimpses of the roaring Cheakamus River below then finally reaching the expanse of the stunning lake, I felt a twinge of joy for the first time since arriving.

Trail running—like Whistler itself— hooked me and there’s no going back.

Now staring down the start line of my first 50 K in June, I feel a little like I did the day I conversed with that obstinate Squamish bear—overwhelmed, unsure of the best way to proceed, and pretty terrified.

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DID YOU KNOW?

Whistler’s first adult choir—the Whistler Singers—began in 1982 with just nine people. It may have started small, but the members shared passion for music would carry them on to become Whistler’s longest-running community arts group.

Welcoming “anyone aged 13 to 113,” it regularly performed at Remembrance Day and Christmas Eve carol services, and performed a spring concert.

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If you look up, way up on any given night, you can see the groomers scuttling across Whistler and Blackcomb getting the mountains ready for the next day. In this 2016 feature story, “The Great Gig in the Sky,” we learned that that year the equivalent of about 1,000 vertical football fields of runs were groomed every 24 hours in two 10-hour shifts by roughly 50 groomers.

Also in the news that week was coverage of the death of a Washington-state sledder in Pemberton. Whistler Search and Rescue manager Brad Sills said at the time: “It’s my personal belief that if you’re going to engage in travel in hazardous terrain, that raises the possibility of a severe medical emergency, then someone in your group should have the training to stabilize you in that event.”

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How to manage $810M in assets ASSET MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT PLAN PRESENTED AT COW

BY BRADEN DUPUIS THE RESORT MUNICIPALITY of Whistler (RMOW) is doing a deep dive on its $810 million worth of infrastructure assets.

A recently completed Asset Management Investment Plan (AMIP)— funded through a grant from the Union of BC Municipalities—was detailed at the March 26 Committee of the Whole meeting.

“Every community in Canada and B.C. is talking about this exact same thing, so don’t feel like you’re alone,” said Cory Sivell, municipal engineer with Urban Systems, at the meeting.

“At the end of the day, it’s just being stewards of assets and looking into the future, and preparing for the future. Just like you plan for retirement, communities have to plan for the future of replacement of assets.”

But not every community is working with $810 million in assets.

“You essentially are on the board of directors for a business that’s managing $810 million,” Sivell told mayor and council.

“I think that’s a really fun number to share, because I find a lot of citizens don’t fully understand how much assets cost, and how expensive it is to replace them.”

More than half of the $810 million in Urban Systems’ Cory Sivell (fourth from left) presents to Whistler’s Committee of the Whole on March 26.

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assets is accounted for in the general capital fund ($429 million).

“Transportation and buildings make up most of the value ($105 million and $184 million, respectively), which is very, very common through most communities,” Sivell said.

On average, Whistler’s assets have about 53 per cent remaining life, Sivell said— placing it “in the middle of the pack” of the other communities he’s worked with.

replacement schedule.

For Sivell’s money, the deficit metric is the most important.

“People take the deficit as kind of being like a negative thing. It’s actually very positive. It means your assets are lasting longer than anticipated,” he said.

“So deficits are healthy to a certain point, then they start to become a little bit of a problem … I think it’s important to track and trend it.”

“You essentially are on the board of directors for a business that’s managing $810 million.”

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The AMIP’s purpose is twofold, he added: understanding the health of assets today and the long-term costs of replacement.

“So how quick are they coming—is it a big wave, is it a tsunami, is there nothing and then a big wave of expenditures in 40 years?” Sivell said.

“It helps you start to understand where those costs sit.”

To do so, the plan rates Whistler’s assets using six metrics: replacement cost, remaining life, value consumed, deficit (the percentage of assets past their expected life, but still in service), life-cycle cost, and

About 13 per cent of Whistler’s assets are in a deficit right now, which equates to about $107 million of the total value, Sivell said.

“You kind of take away interesting correlations, like, ‘hey, seems like a decent amount of buildings are in deficit, and they had a lower remaining life,’ … It’s just data, doesn’t mean it’s real, it just gives you things to question and it can inform decisions based on what is happening.”

The RMOW’s data is also broken down by components, meaning replacing individual parts of an asset—like a roof or windows—will shift the deficit.

While looking at the sheer raw data of $810 million worth of assets—all of which are slowly aging and will one day need to be replaced—can be daunting, Sivell pointed out there are different ways to pay for replacement, whether it be through debt financing, reserves or federal or provincial grants.

“The main thing to take away is that there is a bunch of capital expenditures, they’re not going away, they’re slightly trending upwards, and it’s important to start planning today for them,” he said.

Finding the right level of annual asset reinvestment—spending or saving—will be different for every community, he added (Whistler’s target being somewhere between $12 million and $27 million).

But the reinvestment will shift things elsewhere in the budget, meaning elected officials will have to keep a keen eye on tax impacts.

“As a leader, you say, ‘I think our taxpayers can support that,’ or you’re saying, ‘You know what? I don’t think they can,’ and then you go back and you (adjust),” Sivell said.

Mayor Jack Crompton was thoroughly impressed with the plan.

“It’s a seminal piece of work,” he said, adding that the presentation gives him great confidence.

“I’ve been around for eight years, and we’ve done a tremendous amount of work understanding our asset management— this piece of work sets us up for long-term success, (and) to really understand it much deeper.” n

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BY JOEL BARDE WHISTLER’S search-and-rescue team breathed a sigh of relief on Saturday, March 23, as the B.C. government announced it would provide $18.6 million in one-time funding over three years to the organization that represents the province’s groundsearch-and-rescue teams.

“It’s a relief to all of the teams in the province,” said Whistler Search and Rescue (WSAR) manager Brad Sills, adding that the money gives them the “assurance and the certainty” needed to proceed with training and purchasing vital equipment.

Historically, search-and-rescue teams were required to apply for provincial grants, an onerous process that took a significant amount of time and effort, explained Sills.

“They were primarily competing against other groups ... It was uncertain whether you would get (them), and you also had to compete against all manner of other community organizations,” he said.

Sills noted, however, that it’s important to remember that provincial funding makes up only about a third of WSAR’s annual budget. “The other two thirds is still raised by us,” he emphasized.

The team’s annual fundraising dinner, online donations and family donations are vital to the team’s successes, said Sills, adding that community foundations have also traditionally supported WSAR. The British Columbia Search and Rescue Association (BCSARA) will be responsible for distributing the money to the 80 volunteer-based, search-and-rescue teams across the province.

Chris Kelly, president of the BCSARA, was ebullient when reached by phone, saying that the funding amount is in line with what the BCSARA asked for.

It will go towards training, rescue and safety equipment, and organizational costs like licenses and insurance, he said.

The funding can also be accessed for capital purchases, such as response vehicles.

Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General, made the weekend announcement. “In discussions with (the BC Search and Rescue Association), I’ve heard the ground search and rescue community’s strong concerns about the need for both an immediate infusion of funding and a clearer path toward long-term sustainable funding,” he said in a release.

B.C.’s SAR groups were upset last month after no new funding was included in the provincial budget (see Pique, March 2; “Budget leaves parks and SAR hanging”).

B.C.’s over-extended SAR groups have been asking the government for a more stable flow of cash for several years.

Kelly is encouraged by the province’s commitment to getting a sustainable funding model off the ground; the BCSARA has been advocating for one since 2013.

A governing structure for the model made up of SAR officials and government representatives still needs to be established.

Also included in the province’s announcement was new funding for two additional people to work at Emergency Management BC (EMBC), the government agency BCSARA works directly with. That, said Kelly, bodes well for the future.

“Currently, EMBC has one staff member, his title is the ‘SAR specialist,’ and I’ll be honest, he’s one of the busiest people

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With the fiscal year coming to an end in March, the BCSARA is now faced with the job of delegating the funding, which it expects to receive shortly.

“I know the SAR community is anxious to know how much allocation amounts will be, and BCSARA has already been meeting to get that information together and get those funds distributed as quickly as possible,” said Kelly.

“One of the decisions we need to make is do we just give out the same amount as the last three years, and then revisit this over the next few months, or do we spend the time up front and make those recalculations?”

The $18.6 million represents the single largest provincial ground search-andrescue investment in B.C.’s history—a 24-per-cent increase from the $5 million per year in supplemental funding announced in 2016—and is in addition to funding that the province already provides each year ($9 million in 2017-18) to cover SAR operational costs for deployment, as well as training and equipment costs, and the insurance and liability. n

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Housing guidelines updated COUNCIL BRIEFS: WHERE ARE ALL THE POT SHOPS?; INFRASTRUCTURE CONTRACTS AWARDED

BY BRADEN DUPUIS PRIVATE DEVELOPERS looking to provide employee housing will have more flexibility moving forward.

On Feb. 26, council approved further review of two of five private developer employee housing projects, while directing staff to “broaden the scope” to try and better accommodate the other three (see Pique, Feb. 28; “Rezoning continues for private employee-housing projects”).

On March 26, staff brought the revised guidelines back for council’s consideration.

The updated guidelines remove the requirement that all projects in question must be 100-per-cent employee housing, now permitting limited amounts of new, unrestricted market housing “to support project viability, the design quality and employee housing livability and affordability objectives,” said director of planning Mike Kirkegaard, in a presentation to council.

The guidelines now also allow the projects to include both rental and “owneroccupied” units (rather than rental only).

“There were several other revisions, more minor nature, just kind of solidifying some of the language that was already in

SEEKING GUIDANCE Director of planning Mike Kirkegaard presents to council on March 26.

PHOTO BY BRADEN DUPUIS

the guidelines, and for consistency with those two revisions,” Kirkegaard said.

Other changes intend to address sales price escalation for ownership units (sales prices will be allowed to increase by the percentage change in the core Consumer

Price Index for Canada from the date of purchase to the date of sale—in line with the Whistler Housing Authority’s [WHA] standard agreements), and give consideration to the WHA’s rental and ownership waitlists.

Rental rates will be allowed to increase in line with the maximum allowable increase.

“These guidelines would apply equally to any current rezoning application, and any that may be received that proposes employee housing as a community benefit to realize a change of use, increase in density or increase in the accommodation capacity for a property,” Kirkegaard said.

This means that other proposals with market components that were previously submitted under the guidelines but then rescinded—including one on the long-contemplated Zen lands—can now be resubmitted, noted Councillor Cathy Jewett.

“And I would imagine that this could potentially add a lot of value to the property if it has a market housing portion in it,” she said.

Public information meetings will still be held before zoning bylaws are brought forward for each project, followed by a full public hearing process in which all residents can state their case for or against.

All correspondence received on the projects to this point will also be included in the process.

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“I just find it interesting that there’s another liquor distribution on the table when we have had cannabis legalized for nearly six months now and there is nothing on the table for that,” said Steve Andrews.

“I am just curious why the council would be considering another liquor distribution outlet when it seems like there’s plenty in town already.”

During the Q-and-A portion of the meeting, Mayor Jack Crompton noted a plan is in the works for cannabis.

“It’s not public, but we are actively working on it,” he said.

After the meeting, Crompton added that the intention is to have more details to share publicly “sooner rather than later.”

Whistler passed a zoning amendment bylaw in early 2018 prohibiting the retail sale of cannabis, allowing it to control where and when pot shops are introduced to the resort.

Elsewhere in the corridor, Pemberton’s mayor and council approved a second cannabis shop for the village on March 5 (pending provincial approval), while

Squamish has regulated cannabis retail since 2016.

Head to www.whistler.ca/cannabis for more.

INFRASTRUCTURE CONTRACTS AWARDED Two more municipal infrastructure projects are set to move ahead with the awarding of two contracts at Whistler’s

meanwhile, will upgrade one of Whistler’s most critical reservoirs (located in Bayshores, just below Kadenwood).

The Baxter reservoir is nearly 30 years old, and uses components from other “decommissioned water infrastructure,” according to municipal staff, making it lessthan-operator-friendly.

The contract for the upgrade work (in the amount of $992,268) was awarded to Coastal Mountain Excavations Ltd., which

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The Sewer Trunk Main Lining Project ($1,266,479, GST excluded, to Mar-Tech Underground Services Ltd.) will get underway this spring, and include cured-in-place-pipe lining of about 805 metres of sanitary sewer trunk main (697 metres between Alta Lake Road and Function Junction and another 108 metres in Whistler Cay Heights).

The Baxter Reservoir Upgrade Project,

provided the lowest of six bids—though its bid was still 19 per cent above the engineer’s estimate of $833,255.

The RMOW has budgeted $1.1 million for the project in 2019, with a $25,000 contingency budgeted for 2020.

Also at the March 26 meeting, council gave first three readings to a bylaw that will amend the five-year financial plan to include a project that was left out of the

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The public-washroom project has spurred controversy in the community for its proposed $3-million price tag (for three public washroom facilities at high-traffic areas in the village, to be paid for with provincial Resort Municipality Initiative funds).

At the public hearing, Denise Brown spoke against the project, citing concerns for the impact on the sense of arrival, to the natural area and to pedestrian safety, as well as the high cost.

“I think there are other options, and would like to see that this one be paused for now to see if there’s another location within that area … that might be more suitable at the moment,” she said.

Brown wasn’t alone, with five others writing letters of opposition.

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Whistler police look to ID suspect in day-lot assault POLICE BRIEFS: OFF-DUTY OFFICER HELPS CATCH DRUNK DRIVER; GAS SYPHONED FROM PARKED CAR

BY BRANDON BARRETT WHISTLER POLICE are asking the public for help identifying a suspect who reportedly assaulted a pedestrian last month in the day lots.

On Feb. 16, RCMP received a report of an assault that occurred in one of the parking lots in the 4000 block of Blackcomb Way (police said there were opposing reports of the assault occurring in either Day Lot 2 or 4). Investigators have since learned that a pedestrian was walking through the lot when a vehicle approached, trying to pass. A “verbal altercation” ensued, police said, with the driver exiting his vehicle before reportedly assaulting the pedestrian and then driving away.

A witness on the scene snapped a blurry photo of the suspect and now police are looking for assistance in identifying the man.

He is described as Caucasian, approximately 30 to 35 years of age, weighing around 210 pounds (95 kilograms), with dark hair and a beard. He was also reportedly heard speaking with an Australian accent.

The suspect drove a silver Volvo with Washington plates and may have been travelling with two females at the time.

Anyone who can help identify the suspect is asked to contact the RCMP at 604-932-3044, or Sea to Sky Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 or solvecrime.ca to remain anonymous.

OFF-DUTY OFFICER HELPS WHISTLER POLICE NAB DRUNK DRIVER An off-duty officer took time out of his day off to help police catch a suspected drunk driver last week, Mounties confirmed.

Last Wednesday, March 20, the officer noticed two males entering their vehicle in the area of Lake Placid Road and Sarajevo Drive in Creekside. Suspecting the driver was impaired, the off-duty cop contacted the detachment for assistance. After locating and stopping the vehicle, the RCMP spoke with the driver, and an on-duty officer echoed his colleague’s suspicions, also believing the man to be impaired.

The driver, a 21-year-old Surrey man, subsequently failed two roadside breath tests.

He was issued a 90-day driving prohibition and his vehicle was impounded for 30 days.

“If you choose to drink and drive in Whistler or Pemberton, be aware we are watching, both on duty and off, and

IDENTITY CRISIS Whistler RCMP is turning to the

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The suspect reportedly assaulted a pedestrian in the day lots last month.

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take a zero-tolerance approach in our enforcement,” police said in a release.

POLICE INVESTIGATING REPORT OF GAS SYPHONED FROM PARKED CAR Whistler police are investigating a report this week of gas being syphoned from a parked

vehicle in Cheakamus Crossing.

On Monday, March 25, Mounties received a report of “a large quantity of fuel” that was removed from the gas tank of a vehicle that had been parked in the 1000 block of Legacy Way sometime over the previous two days.

A commenter posting this week in the Cheakamus Crossing Facebook group said that her tank had been full, with “over 500km worth of gas,” when she left the vehicle parked on Saturday afternoon, March 23. By the time she returned to the car two days later, she claimed there was only 100 kilometres worth of gas left.

One other Facebook user commenting on the thread said that gas had been taken from a van in recent days while parked on Mount Fee Road, while another said she noticed the gas cap on her SUV had been left open in the same timeframe.

“Police want to remind folks that if they notice suspicious vehicles and individuals in their neighbourhood, to contact the police. If possible, police also recommend a locking gas cap or cover to deter would-be gas thieves,” read a release from police.

The RCMP continues to investigate and encourages any other victims of gas theft to contact the detachment at 604-932-3044. n

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Pacific Northwest outdoor club member dies in fall in Blackcomb backcountry INCIDENT OCCURRED ON THE NORTH SLOPE OF DECKER MOUNTAIN

BY JOEL BARDE A LONGSTANDING and respected member of the Pacific Northwest outdoor community has died following a fall on Decker Mountain, out-of-bounds terrain accessible via the Blackcomb Glacier.

Whistler RCMP and Whistler Blackcomb Ski Patrol were notified of the incident at approximately 3:15 p.m. on Saturday, March 23. Ski patrollers were reportedly the first to arrive on the scene.

The deceased has been identified on social media as Tab Wilkins, a Seattle, Wash., resident who served as president of The Mountaineers, a major outdoor club, between 2010 and 2012.

“We’re shocked and saddened to share the news that Tab Wilkins, former Board President … activity leader, and 19-year member, has passed away,” read a March 25 blog post on The Mountaineers’ website. “(Wilkins) was skiing in the Blackcomb backcountry when he fell. Even though he was wearing proper safety equipment, he did not survive.”

DECKER DEATH Tab Wilkins, a Seattle, Wash. resident who has been identified on social media as the victim of a fatal fall that took place Saturday, March 23 on Decker Mountain.

PHOTO COURTESY OF THE MOUNTAINEERS

Brad Sills, Whistler Search and Rescue manager, said he understands the man fell

“approximately 1,000 feet (300 metres)” on the north slope of Decker, facing

towards Lakeside Bowl. Decker stands beside Blackcomb Peak, and is visible for skiers riding the 7th Heaven zone.

When asked if there are any safety lessons to be taken from the fall, Sills said it is too early to say.

“I’ve asked that question myself,” he said. “Was there intent to ski the slope he fell through or did he just simply fall?

“I’ve not received an answer from the people that were on-scene, nor do I know if they would ever be able to establish that.”

Wilkins’ death represents a major loss to the Pacific Northwest outdoor community.

Based in Seattle, the volunteer group boasts more than 13,000 active members in the Pacific Northwest and hosts courses and trips throughout the region, according to its website.

Over the years, it has served as a portal to the outdoor world for thousands of recreationalists.

“Our community will be impacted greatly by this loss,” the Mountaineers’ blog post continues. “Tab is survived by his wife Anita—his partner in life and adventure.

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Naturespeak: Equinoxes, Seasons, and Solstices

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THOUGHTS about Daylight Savings Time aside, I love this time of year. March 20 saw the first of 2019’s two equinoxes, this one heralding the spring freshet, warmer weather, and longer days.

We Canadians know this equinox more colloquially as the first day of spring.

The progression of equinoxes, solstices, and seasons in general are caused by the tilt of the Earth away from vertical (relative to the plane on which we orbit the sun). This roughly-23.5-degree tilt means that between the March and September equinoxes, the Northern Hemisphere tilts towards the sun, bringing warmer weather for us and cooler weather for those “down under” the equator. Similarly, from the September to March equinoxes, the Northern Hemisphere points away from the sun, bringing shorter days and cooler weather to us northerners.

The word equinox derives from the Latin words aequus, meaning equal, and nox, for night. At the equinox, the Earth tilts neither toward nor away from the sun and everywhere on Earth experiences an approximately equal 12-hour night and day. During the period around equinoxes, compass bearers north of the equator will note the sun rising due east

RISING SUN The equinox is a reason to celebrate.

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and setting due west instead of north of these ordinates in the summer and south in winter.

From the spring equinox to the solstice on June 29, days lengthen—by four minutes each initially, then more slowly as summer solstice approaches.

The June solstice is the longest day of the year and is embraced by northerners as the first day of summer. At this point, the Southern Hemisphere is farthest from the sun, experiencing its longest night. The northern winter solstice—our longest night of the year—occurs on Dec. 21.

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To complicate things further, even this revolution isn’t set in stone—perihelion and aphelion drift by about a day every 58 years.

While equinoxes and solstices are mainly cultural markers for humans, many creatures use these yearly changes in the sun’s position to trigger reproductive activity and annual migrations: Monarch

butterflies appear to use a combination of the sun’s position and magnetism as directional aids in their biannual migrations; longer days and shorter nights spur Saw-Whet owls to vocalize for mates; and spring equinox results in a surge in activity for some flowering plants—shorter nights stimulate the production of hormones that encourage growth and flowering in a process called photoperiodism.

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SLRD board talks backcountry closures SLRD BRIEFS: OFFICE RENOVATIONS NEARING COMPLETION

BY BRADEN DUPUIS THE BOARD of the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) is not about to come to a consensus on backcountry closures.

A request for support for a resolution from the District of Sicamous—asking the federal and provincial governments to place a moratorium on all backcountry closures— led to some discussion at the board’s March 20 meeting.

Directors John Courchesne and Russell Mack (Areas A and C, respectively) both said they would support the resolution.

“I support a motion that communities and local government be involved in the process, and I wouldn’t trust any provincial government saying that (the backcountry) needs to be closed,” Courchesne said, adding that he understands the sensitivities around species-at-risk, “but sometimes it’s not always species at risk, and there is underlying reasons why they want it closed.”

“I fear that (we) that live out in the middle of nowhere are going to get excluded from our own backyard, because some bureaucrat in Kamloops or Victoria or Prince George deems that that area needs to be closed.”

Mack agreed, saying that many local people in rural areas are being excluded

backcountry because of the species’ at risk, I know that our community would have a hard time with that,” Elliot said.

“At the same time, I also want to respect senior levels of governments’ right to actually put the environment and species first … I’m not sure I could support (the resolution) here today.”

Senior levels of government need the ability to enact closures in the case of emergencies, “so I can understand why it’s been happening,” said Whistler director Cathy Jewett.

“But the way it has been happening, there’s been no process to be able to go and advocate for a reduction of restrictions or anything like that.”

Rather than voting on consensus support, the board moved to receive the letter.

The resolution will be brought to the 2019 Southern Interior Local Government Association convention, where attending SLRD board members will be able to further debate it.

SLRD OFFICE RENOVATIONS NEAR COMPLETION The SLRD’s staff is almost ready to move into its newly renovated office space at 1350 Aster St. in Pemberton.

“Staff is pretty excited,” said Chief Administrative Officer Lynda Flynn in an update to the board on March 20.

“I fear that (we) that live out in the middle of nowhere are going to get excluded from our own backyard, because some bureaucrat ... deems that the area needs to be closed.”

- JOHN COURCHESNE

because of backcountry closures.

“There needs to be consultation with everybody when they’re going to have a closure. They need to justify that closure to the local governments, and the local organizations,” Mack said.

“There’s lots of people that live throughout this province that recreate in the backcountry, and if we are being hindered in doing that, why are we? So we need to have a voice in that decision that’s being made.”

It’s a very complex issue, said Squamish Mayor Karen Elliot, and not one she’d want to wade into without more information.

“I want to hear from all sides, because I’m thinking in my own mind, if someone said that they wanted to close Squamish’s

“We did the walkthrough yesterday and that’s pretty exciting … hopefully we’ll be out of (the Pemberton Community Centre) soon.”

The renovations included adding office and storage space, a larger entry, new paint, carpet and lighting throughout, a new accessible washroom and more parking.

The total project cost about $1.7 million.

“We’re still in line (with the budget) … one of our concerns has always been when they get inside to the old part of the building—you know, we hope that there’s going to be no surprises or skeletons or previous administrators in the walls,” Flynn joked.

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Pemberton to remove crabapple trees on Portage Road DECISION COMES AFTER COS LETTER WARNS TAKE ACTION OR BE IN CONTRAVENTION OF BC WILDLIFE ACT

BY JOEL BARDE THE VILLAGE OF PEMBERTON (VOP) has decided to cut down the iconic crabapple trees that line Portage Road following a letter from the Conservation Officer Service (COS) and unsuccessful attempts to manage the fruit they produce.

“Unfortunately, you just can’t have that level of bear attractant right in the middle of your high-traffic walking area,” said VOP Mayor Mike Richman. “We’ve done what we can to try to lessen the attractant.”

For the past few years, the VOP has worked with Stewardship Pemberton to keep fruit off the trees. With the help of volunteers, the organization has collected crabapples and made jelly out of them. (The jelly, in turn, is sold at local grocery stores in support of the conservation organization.)

The VOP, added Richman, has also had its public works staff “blow off all the blossoms with fire hoses in an attempt to keep them from producing too much (fruit).”

But neither effort, it appears, was enough to keep the crabapples at bay—bear sightings, along Portage Road, are common.

“You will walk by, and there will be a bear

PROBLEM FRUIT The Village of Pemberton has

decided to cut down the crabapple trees on Portage Road after receiving a letter from the Conservation Officer Service telling it to take action.

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in (a) tree,” said Richman, noting that the trees run directly in front of Signal Hill Elementary School. “It’s too public an area and it’s too well travelled an area (for that).”

Dated Oct. 19. 2018, the COS letter states that bears are becoming “conditioned and habituated as a result of being attracted” to the crabapple trees.

“Every year, bears are destroyed because they pose a public safety risk or

The COS letter has left the VOP with no choice, said Richman. “It’s an order,” he said. “It wasn’t a conversation. It wasn’t a suggestion or recommendation. It was an order that you need to remove those trees.

“Basically what they said is, ‘What you are doing is not working well enough and you need to remove it.’”

When Pique spoke to Richman about the crabapple issue in October (see “Village

“Unfortunately, you just can’t have that level of bear attractant right in the middle of your high-traffic walking area.”

- MIKE RICHMAN

they cause significant damage to property … this wildlife attractant has a significant risk to safety of the residents and visitors of Pemberton,” said the letter. “It is compulsory that you take immediate and appropriate action to ensure that the Village of Pemberton does not continue to operate in contravention of the BC Wildlife Act.” The letter presented several options to address the attractant problem: Removing all of the trees, securing them through electric fencing, or collecting “all fruit from the trees as soon as trees bear fruit yearly.”

crabapple trees cause for concern, says conservation group,” Oct. 14, 2018), he said the VOP was seeking to avoid cutting down the trees and considering transporting some of them to the VOP’s agricultural park.

When asked about this option last week, Richman said it would be prohibitively expensive and, in many cases, unfeasible.

“We did speak to an arborist a little while ago, and there were two things,” explained Richman. “No. 1, they are very well-established trees, so to remove them you would have to dig really wide around”

and the machinery “would be very costly.”

Moreover, a number of the trees are located under hydro lines, making it impossible to use machinery to take them out, said Richman.

Complicating matters further is the fact that the trees are imbued with cultural significance, as they were planted in honour of Pemberton residents and people who have contributed to the betterment of the community.

Some posts on social media have questioned the VOP’s decision to cut them down.

Richman said he understands the concern and that the VOP is taking steps to honour the memories of the people they were planted for.

After cutting the trees down, it will immediately replant non-fruit-bearing species (perhaps lilac or maples), and erect signage in honour of the people the trees were originally dedicated to, he explained.

“The older residents will be listed there, the dedications will be listed there on a sign, so people will understand, which will be good, because there is (currently) nothing there indicating (the significance),” he explained.

Richman added that the VOP is open to working with any families to relocate trees, if it is feasible. “If people are interested, it would have to be at their own cost to have the transplant done,” he said. “But at this point, we don’t know what the cost (would be).”

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BY JOEL BARDE IT’S BEEN ALMOST two years since five-year-old Ty Sangster returned to his Pemberton home following six months of cancer treatment in Vancouver.

“He’s doing very well,” said mom Kate Sangster. “He’s able to attend school and go to ski school (as well).”

Ty is currently in the maintenance part of his treatment, which involves taking oral chemotherapy. The family is still “very much in this,” explained Kate.

That said, with Ty’s treatment expected to finish at the end of the year, Kate is positive about the future. “(This cancer) definitely has a really high success rate of staying at bay,” she said. “We are always very, very hopeful that it will never come back.”

Ty’s recovery so far would not have been possible, said Kate, without BC Children’s Hospital staff and the amazing medical team, which included child therapists and volunteers who helped forge a positive environment during his time in Vancouver.

Once on the road to recovery, Ty and Kate set about saying thank you in a concrete way. Ty has become a major fundraiser for the BMX Race for Life, a BMX race series that benefits the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation, and he spent last summer selling cherries to raise money for the hospital.

“He raised $7,723 last year,” said Kate.

There is also the annual “Super Ty’s Toy Drive.” It allows Sea to Sky and Vancouver residents to donate toys, which are handdelivered to kids at the hospital by Ty. Reflecting on the last several years, Kate is positive and focused on the future.

“It’s been incredible the way things happened,” she said.

To hear Ty’s story is to recognize the power of what Kate calls a “mother’s instinct.”

She began being concerned with Ty’s health when he became wobbly on his feet and his eye coordination seemed off in 2016.

After visiting a doctor several times, Kate pushed for blood work. “I (knew) that blood work can tell a lot,” she explained. “It crossed my mind that he might be diabetic.”

The results revealed the gravity of the situation, and Ty was quickly transported to BC Children’s Hospital. Once there, more

“It’s been incredible the way things happened.”

- KATE SANGSTER

blood work confirmed Ty had leukemia.

As part of Ty’s treatment, he had a port installed beneath his skin, used to facilitate blood work and chemotherapy.

“It’s been in his chest since he was diagnosed, so he asks a lot of questions about the ports and why are they doing different things,” said Kate, adding that he’s taken a real interest in his treatment as he’s grown older. “He’s just very intuitive. He’s never been wheezy about it at all.”

During the Vancouver treatment, the family stayed at Ronald McDonald House in order to be close to Ty’s medical team.

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The science behind Colorado’s historic avalanches ARE SUCH UNPRECEDENTED SLIDES DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE, ABNORMAL WEATHER, OR BOTH?

BY JAY BOUCHARD OVER THE PAST several weeks, we’ve witnessed one of the most intense avalanche cycles in Colorado history. According to leading experts, recent avalanches—there have been more than 600 recorded in March alone—are running longer and larger than they have in decades, and in some cases, the slides are more intense than they’ve been in hundreds of years.

The carnage has been well-documented across the state: cars have been buried on I-70 and elsewhere; homes have been destroyed; and already seven skiers have been killed by avalanches in the backcountry this year.

To better understand the strength and scope of snow barrelling down mountainsides in Colorado, we set out to learn what exactly has led to this intense avalanche cycle. Is it merely a lot of damn snow? Another catastrophic by-product of a warming climate?

According to snow scientists and forecasters with whom we spoke, the answer is not nearly so simple. Yes, Colorado is experiencing a banner snow year. Yes, the climate is changing. But neither of those factors, they say, are solely responsible for the intensity of avalanches we’ve seen this month. Instead, it’s been a

AVALANCHE ALERT A convertible sign alerts winter travelers to possible snow slides in the Rocky Mountains of southwest Colorado.

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mixture of weather events over the past five months—a “perfect storm” of sorts—that created unstable snowpack across the state.

“It’s a combination of events,” said Karl Birkeland, director of the U.S. Forest Service National Avalanche Center. “You get your biggest avalanches not just when you get a big storm, but when you get a big storm that’s on top of a series of events that set up over your season.”

In Colorado’s case, according to Birkeland, that series of events involved

even more likely to slide, according to Spencer Logan, lead avalanche scientist at the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC). Wind drifts snow around, he explained, and in some cases wind can move snow from one place to another at rates far greater than it is falling from the sky.

“If you imagine the snowpack being like an old man, it doesn’t like change,” Logan said. “Rapid change makes snow unstable.

Wind is a really good way of creating that rapid change.”

“If you imagine the snowpack being like an old man, it doesn’t like change ... ” - SPENCER LOGAN

early snowfall in October followed by dry weather in November, creating a weak base layer of snow. Colorado then saw consistent snowfall throughout the winter on top of that layer, but not too much in any given storm, which loaded snow in the mountains but didn’t “tip the bucket,” he said. These conditions ultimately created a snowpack that is extremely unsteady, and thus, when major storms arrived in early March, it triggered massive avalanches.

“You had a very deep snowpack with a very weak layer down at the bottom of it,” he said. “And then you just added a load really quickly and that was enough to push it over the edge.”

Moreover, wind throughout Colorado’s high country made vulnerable conditions

Because of all of these factors, we are seeing avalanches “unlike anything anyone can remember,” Logan said. “Professionals who have been doing this for 40 years have never seen these kinds of avalanches.”

When such extreme weather conditions like this develop, it’s natural to ask whether or not this is the most recent manifestation of climate change. In the case of avalanches, while global warming likely has an indirect influence, experts caution against conflating weather and climate too broadly.

“I don’t think we can directly tie this event to climate change. This is really tied to a particular sequence of events—a sequence of weather events over the course of a season,” Birkeland said. “I’d be reluctant to tie it to climate change necessarily. It’s more

kind of the perfect storm in terms of these different things coming together to give you a snowpack that’s deep and has a weakness at the bottom with big storms on top of that.”

Dr. Kelly Elder, a research hydrologist at the U.S. Forest Service and an avalanche science instructor at Colorado Mountain College, agreed that the number and intensity of avalanches this month is largely do to abnormal weather. However, he said, one of the impacts of global warming is unpredictability.

“This is a weather issue, but climate change predictions suggest increased variability in weather,” he wrote in an email. “We should expect more seasons like this one, as well as more drought seasons where we are begging for more snow. Increased variability means greater extremes and greater uncertainty in predicting them. Climate change is real; how it will manifest remains to be seen.”

As a “bomb cyclone” ripped across the state on Wednesday, it seems the abnormal winter weather will continue in Colorado—at least for now. But how many more avalanches will break loose is hard to know: Logan says that his team at CAIC has recorded 609 slides in March so far, but that’s probably only a fraction—maybe 25 per cent—of the total over that period.

As droves of skiers head for the hills it’s important that we all keep in mind the significant avalanche risk, both on the roads and on the slopes.

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BY ALLEN BEST allen.best@comcast.net PARK CITY, UTAH —In an odd way, supporters of Donald Trump and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez share common turf in their assessment that capitalism has fallen short for American workers.

Trump blamed globalization and unfair trade deals (plus, immigrants from Latin America) for the problems of Middle America on the campaign trail. AOC, as Ocasio-Cortez seems to be universally identified, has a broader indictment.

The chief executive of Vail Resorts, the most capitalistic of enterprises, seems to agree. Rob Katz told a packed auditorium in Park City recently that the company fell behind on workforce housing and wages

“Now we’re playing catch up ... ” - ROB KATZ

during its boom years.

It wasn’t just the ski company, but also the communities it operates in. “Now we’re playing catch up,” he said, according to an account by The Park Record.

Katz said Vail Resorts hopes to make gains in housing when an economic downturn occurs.

On wages, the same thing. The company now pays a minimum of US$12.25 per hour.

That may be above the legal mandate, but it’s not necessarily all that swell.

In earnings, though, the company has done swell indeed. Stock price as of Friday, March 22, was US$211 per share. Keep in mind that at the initial public offering in 1997, the price per share was US$16. That’s a 13-fold increase in stock price—a tribute to the branding strategy and the genius of the Epic Pass, most of this engineered by Katz.

As for sharing of that wealth? Minimum wage certainly hasn’t increased 13 fold in the last two decades.

As for Trump, he delivered a big tax cut. It benefitted most people like himself, the sorts that have their own jet planes, but also the high-end customers of destination ski areas.

TERRAIN ADDITION LIKELY GIVEN OK CRESTED BUTTE, Colo.—Vail Resorts continues on its mission to reshape Crested Butte Mountain Resort into a more valuable member of its money-making fleet of ski areas.

Even under the prior owners, the Mueller family, and the owners before,

Crested Butte felt the need to grow, to better compete with the larger ski areas of the West.

But they had a hard time pushing forward the expansion, in part because of ill-advised designs (think Snodgrass Mountain) but also because ski-area expansions take a lot of front-end money for planning.

The Crested Butte News reported that the U.S. Forest Service has given the ski area preliminary approval for a 20-hectare terrain expansion. Included in Vail Resort’s plans are two new chairlifts and reconfiguration of an existing lift.

One of the local environmental groups, High Country Conservation Advocates, raised no flags.

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Mountain News: CEO admits that Vail Resorts fell short on wages, housing

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A STORY TO BEAT ALL STORIES CRESTED BUTTE, Colo.—Alex Theaker will likely have the most interesting personal story in anybody’s room for the rest of his life. The 28-year-old Crested Butte resident almost lost his life in early March when he went to shovel at a house in Mount Crested Butte, the slope-side town.

He sat down with Mark Reaman of the Crested Butte News to share his full story.

He thought the roof might be ready to avalanche, but was very close to getting his work done. He wasn’t quick enough.

Buried, he immediately started wiggling.

“The snow was really heavy. If it had happened in December, I might have been able to pop right out of there. But that snow was so wet and heavy, it formed like cement around me. I was kind of on my side and barely had any room to move my legs or anything. I had my phone in my pocket but couldn’t get my hand down to my phone because the snow just had me. Luckily, I had both hands up by my head.”

That may have made all the difference.

He was able to move his hands just enough to carve out a portal of air. He thinks he was also able to create just enough of a passageway to allow oxygen to reach him.

Then he stayed calm. “I only remember about 10 minutes of it, and then I remember waking up in the hospital.”

He had been buried in the snow for up to two and a half hours. His core body temperature was 86 degrees.

In that time of darkness, he remembers trying to channel to his wife. “I couldn’t get to my phone so I was trying to communicate with her mentally or through my energy, saying ‘I need help. I need help.’”

He also had Tupac’s Greatest Hits playing in his ear and a world of dance beyond this one. “But they were telling me, ‘Nope, you’re not ready. You forgot the ticket of the party so you gotta go back and remember the ticket next time, you idiot.

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PEMBERTON VALLEY DYKING DISTRICT ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

TUESDAY, APRIL 9TH, 2019 @ 7:00 pm Pemberton Community Centre – 7390 Cottonwood Street The Pemberton Valley Dyking District will be holding its 72nd Annual General Meeting and you are invited to attend this event. You will gain a great overview of what the Pemberton Valley Dyking District does, see what projects the Dyking District completed throughout 2018 and what projects are planned for 2019.

At the Tuesday, April 9, 2019 AGM the Pemberton Valley Dyking District will also be electing two Trustees to the Board for a 3-year term each..

Voter Eligibility: (ID must be presented) Only persons attending the election and meeting the following eligibility requirements are entitled to vote: • A Canadian Citizen • Eighteen years of age, or older • An owner of land within the Pemberton Valley Dyking District boundaries • A resident of the province of British Columbia for the prior six months • Legal representative of an owner of land within the Pemberton Valley Dyking District boundaries • Authorized agent of a corporation or board that owns land within the Pemberton Valley Dyking District boundaries. The authorized agent must deliver a letter in writing on company letterhead before the election begins. That authorized agent must sign a Statutory Declaration Form prior to voting Trustee Eligibility: • Every person who is qualified to be an elector is also qualified to be a Trustee • The spouse of a qualified elector may also hold the office of Trustee For further details, please go onto the Pemberton Valley Dyking District’s website: www.pvdd.ca PO Box 235 Pemberton, BC V0N 2L0 Phone: (604) 894-6632 Fax: (604) 894-5271 Email: trustees@pvdd.ca

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Children are fighting for their future—we must support them “AND A LITTLE CHILD shall lead them.” – Isaiah 11:6 At 16, Greta Thunberg may not be a little child, but she’s showing tremendous leadership. The Swedish student has galvanized a world movement, pressing adults to remove the blinkers of corporate and political self-interest and recognize that their refusal to respond appropriately to climatologists’ urgent warnings is leading to the destruction of a future for all generations to come.

Children don’t have a large stake in the status quo so they aren’t bound by the constraints of business and politics.

BY DAVID SUZUKI They aren’t yet part of it, except as budding consumers and victims of political machinations. Children speak from their hearts with an innocence, naiveté and idealism only they possess.

For decades, environmentalists calling for government action to transform our energy sources from fossil fuels to cleaner renewables have been marginalized as unrealistic, extremists or anti-business.

Even activists have imposed self-restraint in our calls for political action lest we be seen as a threat to jobs, corporate interests or the economy.

Thunberg’s laser focus is on what politicians are doing (or not doing) rather than saying. And what they’re doing is refusing to take the necessary actions

committed to keeping global average temperature from rising more than 1.5 to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. To environmentalists’ cheers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called for keeping to the lower 1.5-C limit.

The IPCC’s special report noted the planet has already warmed by 1-C and warned that exceeding 1.5-C warming would cause climate chaos. To avoid that will require a 45-per-cent reduction in emissions by 2030 and 100 per cent by 2050. It’s a shocking wake-up call. To achieve such a target in a short time means adhering to international commitments on the scale of a world war. Using carbon pricing to reduce emissions, encouraging electric vehicle purchases, installing LED lights and other actions, while important, will not keep us in line with the IPCC target.

In 1988, climatologists were convinced that humans were contributing to global warming, mainly through burning fossil fuels and destroying carbon sinks like forests and wetlands. Their understanding of the physics behind global warming had become increasingly robust since at least 1824, when French scientist Joseph Fourier discovered what would later be called the “greenhouse effect.” To avoid catastrophic climate change, scientists led by NASA’s James Hansen recommended a 20-percent reduction in emissions within 15 years of 1988. Had the world taken the threat seriously and acted, we could have avoided the crisis we’re in today.

Instead, the fossil-fuel industry and its supporters in media, government and “think tanks” campaigned to deny or downplay the threat. Rather than slowing

Had the world taken the threat seriously and acted, we could have avoided the crisis we’re in today.

outlined in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s special report in October.

It warns that failing to substantially reduce greenhouse-gas emissions over the next 11 years will put humanity—and numerous other species—on the road to catastrophe.

The United Nations established the IPCC in 1988 to be the most authoritative source of scientific information on climate change, compiling research from scientists and experts worldwide to inform governments and the public of the current state of scientific knowledge. Because it’s intergovernmental, its reports are vetted by countries like Saudi Arabia, the U.S. and Russia, which have their own agendas. This makes the reports invariably cautious. Every IPCC prediction (temperature, sea level rise, weather events) over five-year periods has fallen short of what actually occurred.

In 2015, the world—including Canada, which emerged after almost a decade of government denying the issue—

fossil-fuel development and investment, they accelerated it, determined to get the last bit of value out of the resources before markets confronted the reality of climate disruption.

Despite the urgency of the crisis, governments, industry and banks continue to invest in and expand fossil-fuel infrastructure and development, and emissions continue to rise. “We aren’t going to get off fossil fuels overnight,” they say, while making few attempts to get off them at all.

Children, inspired by Thunberg, are telling adults their future is at stake.

Those who believe short-term economic gain is more important than protecting the biosphere on which all life depends are betraying them and all children.

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Epic Hakuba II: Details, details SKI-TOURING above Norakuri Onsen, the trees thin and the ridge opens up, zigzagging to an alabaster pyramid several kilometres distant. Our guides know those upper slopes will be wind-hammered, sun-baked, avalanche-prone, or all three, and so we stop to peel off our skins. The good skiing will

BY LESLIE ANTHONY be here, they say, in the north-facing trees below. Blasting through them, it’s very good indeed, and I silently thank our shepherds for the deliverance. The kodama—Japanese forest spirits—also deserve a nod.

With little wind to sweep snow from these hardwoods between storms, it grows in their axials like rising bread dough, casting shadows that shelter the deep meringue, which now provides joyous passage on this aspect and nowhere else. Another Hakuba confidence revealed and revered.

Boasting 10 ski resorts, 135 lifts, and a lot of funky everything, Hakuba has plenty of historical cachet in the ski world— including venue for the alpine and Nordic ski events during the 1998 Olympic Winter Games. Wandering its odd bricolage of hot-spring-heated streets, outdoor art, and architectural sensibilities, any given day here could be 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000. But if one thing elevates this small town in the Japan Alps above the greater pantheon of

A TRUE JAPANESE EXPERIENCE Pique columnist Leslie Anthony explains why Hakuba is unique and world class.

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Japanese powder skiing, it’s the labyrinthine terrain—the reason it’s a veritable homeaway-from-home for Whistler-based steep-ski maven Extremely Canadian (EC).

“We’ve been taking groups to Japan for 16 years now, but Hakuba for only three,” notes EC principal Jill Dunnigan.

“Japan is wildly popular with powder-savvy Americans and Canadians from the West Coast. This year we sold nine weeks there and only one in Europe. Clients like that it’s still an authentic Japanese experience, a little rough around the edges—sort of like Whistler back in the early ’90s.”

If you’re one of thousands around North America with a Vail Resorts Epic Pass, like many here in Whistler, a free five consecutive days of skiing Hakuba is

pushing into the alpine when weather allows, and taking on the unmatched tree skiing during storms and dry spells as we did. Après activities include soaking in one of the area’s ubiquitous hot springs (onsen), crowding into some of the most ridiculously tiny pubs (izakaya) you’ve ever seen, and, of course, re-fuelling with traditional Japanese cuisine in a range of places dedicated to the likes of Wagyu beef barbecue, sushi, ramen, and okonomiyaki (a kind of cabbage-filled pancake-y thing with various toppings).

Of course, this being a ski group, sake parties around the table in our comfortable modern chalet were a nightly occurrence.

During one, the house shook and furniture shifted as a small earthquake rolled

“Clients like that it’s still an authentic Japanese experience, a little rough around the edges—sort of like Whistler back in the early ’90s.”

- JILL DUNIGAN

an attractive bonus. Attractive enough for my partner and I to join EC and other Epic Passers from Vancouver, Seattle, and Bellingham in Hakuba this past February.

Hakuba weeks can be purely resortbased, or focus on chairlift-accessed ski-touring, where most of your ski time is spent powder-hounding steeps outside the resorts. Here, dozens of ridgelines spider to the western horizon to prop up Japan’s highest peaks at over 3,000 metres; that’s a ton of terrain, and hundreds of descents. Both ACMG- and CSIA-certified guides show you the best of both worlds—

through, causing everyone to wonder if they’d maybe had enough.

Hakuba’s appeal, however, includes more than just skiing and culture. It’s also a paean to nature, from the towering peaks and hot springs to the many national parks and creatures who live in and around the ski areas—snow monkeys, bears, eagles and phantom-like kamoshika—whose suspicious prints constellated the snow as we toured above Goryu ski area on our third day.

I’d seen my first kamoshika years earlier on a steep ridge at Nozawa Onsen, where I’d dropped over a pillow to almost brush

the bizarre creature, known for hanging out where edible plants are exposed. The English name for this antelope relative— Japanese Serow—doesn’t do it justice. At the time I was shocked by the sight of a furry, boar-sized animal with a bearded face, perky bear-cub ears, and small devil’s horns, but now I hoped to see one again.

We would ultimately spot several at Goryu, including a mother and fawn sunning on a knoll below the main gondola. That was also the day of an unusual warm-up where skiing went dark for a couple of days.

“There aren’t many down days in Hakuba, but I really like all the things you can do when there is one,” says Dunnigan.

Like a hike to see the snow monkeys in their own private onsen, a visit to the Zenkoji Temple housing the first Buddhist statue ever brought to Japan, or a tour of Matsumoto Castle, a magnificent six-storey wooden structure built in 1504 and centrepiece of Matsumoto City, where you can check out the region’s famous wasabi farms, soba noodle houses and sake distilleries.

With bigger mountains and bigger weather than elsewhere in the country, Hakuba ultimately fuses Japanese and European ski-area sensibilities. Yet despite the ad hoc town and international-ish vibe there’s still a true Japanese experience to be had—which very much includes skiing and communing with forest kodama.

For Part 1 see Pique, March 14, “Epic Hakuba: First things first.” Next time it’s Tokyo daze—three days in the world’s largest urban area.

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his story began with an innocent question at the tail end of a telephone call I’d been having with a friend from Calgary about the city’s “No” vote in its recent referendum to host the 2026 Olympic Games. I was shocked at the outcome, given the almost mythical nostalgia of the city’s collective memory of the 1988 Winter Games. You remember, the Games with Eddie the Eagle and the Jamaican Bobsled Team? With Alberto Tomba and Katarina Witt?

Don Finley works in Alberta’s oil and natural gas industry. He’s been involved with the Fernie Alpine Ski Team for the past 15 years, and his kids have competed out here in the Whistler Cup on several occasions, spending those petro dollars in the process. His support for the Games had been rather lukewarm, which, given his sporting background, was surprising.

Albertans, he said, had other things on their minds.

“Did you ever watch that presentation I sent the link to?” asked Don. I admitted that I had not.

“Well, you should watch it,” he said.

“Watch it and distribute it to as many people as possible. Because what’s happened in Canada in the past year is very bad. My friend Chris (Slubicki) put it together, and there’s no ranting or anger. He’s just trying to get a message out there about how bad things are here in Alberta.”

What I found out is that Albertans are mighty angry about what’s happened out here on the Coast for probably the last decade now. Failure to gain regulatory approval on any new pipelines to get oilsands crude from Fort McMurray to, well, just about anywhere, resulted in not only a glut of product, but product that producers were selling at a 50-per-cent discount. Job loss estimates go as high as 100,000—and unlike past energy busts, this has affected engineers and geologists as much as truck drivers and security staff.

Currently, a quarter of downtown Calgary’s offices remains vacant.

But it wasn’t just an oil executive telling me that. And rather than re-hashing (and hashtagging) the strident and often dishonest voices on social media, I did my own research into the issue and reached out to two enlightened, progressive journalists from the Wild Rose Province to get a more detailed and nuanced discussion about what’s happening across the Continental Divide.

‘THIS WORLD NEEDS ENERGY’

As my friend suggested, I watched Slubicki’s presentation. Like many Westerners of my age, Slubicki was originally from Ontario—a professional engineer and MBA graduate who has held a wide range of jobs within Canada’s energy industry. His company, Modern Resources, has won awards for its environmental innovation while his previous

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“Who are we kidding? We are a cold country, we rely on transporting goods across long distances, we have an energyintensive economy, and we live a high quality of life as a result ... C”HRIS SLUBICKI firm, Waterous and Company, was an independent-energy, investment-banking firm with offices in Canada and England.

On the recreational front, he coached ski racing in Fernie and served as board chair for Alpine Canada, the national governing body for alpine, para-alpine and ski-cross racing. Slubicki’s friends and family are also passionate paddlers, disappearing during the summer months for weeks at a time to canoe the rivers of Canada’s north.

Reached by phone at his office in Calgary, Slubicki says that his YouTube video has received more than 120,000 views in the past six months. “I know that I can’t reach the 10 to 20 per cent on the radical end of the spectrum,” he says. “I’m not speaking to them.” Rather, he hopes his sort of “Al Gore in reverse” arguments might resonate with the average Canadian who both cares about the environment and jumps in a car to head to Whistler.

Slubicki’s presentation concentrates not so much on production as it does on consumption, and—to be consistent—his presentation converts energy consumption of all kinds into equivalent units of barrels

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of oil, known as barrels of energy.

“This world needs energy, and it must come from all sources—solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, and oil and gas,” he says.

“Global poverty is tied directly to energy poverty. The bottom half of the world’s population consumes less than the equivalent of four barrels of energy per year and fully a billion people use less than a single barrel.”

It’s worth noting that these are hardly failed, destitute states—members of the under-four-barrels-per-day club include India, the Philippines, and Egypt—and even energy-rich nations such as Nigeria and Indonesia.

And while it might seem virtuous at first glance to praise their energy thrift, the truth is that energy poverty has a ripple effect throughout society.

“To raise the standard of living of these countries even up to that of China or Mexico, (14 barrels per year), the world will need to produce the equivalent of an extra 100 million barrels of energy per day,” Slubicki says. “To reach North American

consumption (34 barrels per year) would require the equivalent of an extra 400 million barrels of energy per day.”

And—God forbid—we would never want every citizen on our blue planet to consume the thirsty 67 barrels of energy, or 15 barrels of oil, that the average Canadian does on a yearly basis.

“Who are we kidding? We are a cold country, we rely on transporting goods across long distances, we have an energyintensive economy, and we live a high quality of life as a result,” Slubicki concedes.

Hardly a science-denying capitalist, Slubicki recognizes that climate change is real. “We can’t afford to be wrong about this,” he says. “We’ve been pumping carbon dioxide into the air since the Industrial Revolution. Right now, we pump 32 gigatonnes of carbon dioxide into the air every year and about half of that comes from oil and gas. If we don’t do anything, and the world’s population swells to 9 billion, the amount of CO2 will go up to 42 gigatonnes per year.

“Under the Paris Accord, we’re committed to reducing greenhouse gases to

18 gigatonnes per year, and that’s a worthy goal. And it’s doable if coal is phased out as is currently happening, and renewables continue their accelerated growth. But by the time Paris goes into effect, almost half of the world’s energy will still come from oil and gas.”

This, believes Slubicki, is where Canada’s true opportunity lies. In becoming a technologically innovative energy leader, especially during the time in which, he acknowledges, the world will have to make a transition from fossil fuels to what he calls a “low-carbon, not no-carbon” economy.

Still, his frustration is evident. “Ten years after our industry was first targeted by special interest groups, where are we? We haven’t reduced greenhouse-gas emissions, and we’ll increase them if we continue to haul the oil by rail—because the oil will find its way to market,” he says. “We’ve decimated the Alberta oil economy and now live in a country where people hate each other because of environmental issues. No matter which side of the debate you’re on here, everybody is losing.”

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OPENING THE CONVERSATION

How did we get here, exactly? How was the link drawn between one of the world’s largest industrial energy extraction operations—the dozen-plus projects currently digging and drilling the tarry compound in the Athabasca River watershed—and climate change, which rising U.S. politician Alexandria OcasioCortez claims will destroy the Earth within a decade unless some kind of Green New Deal is passed?

Ironies abound when it comes to this contentious debate between Alberta and British Columbia. Alberta writer Andrew Nikiforuk is probably Canada’s most outspoken energy critic. He’s taken on fracking, the oilsands, and the cozy relationship between energy lobbyists and government regulators. While he lives in Alberta, one of his main media outlets is Vancouver’s The Tyee—an online publication funded partially by the Tula

Foundation, described as a “supporter of a wide range of progressive programs around the world.”

On the other side, Vancouver writer and researcher Vivian Krause has staked her reputation on “following the money” from major American endowments such as the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Hewlett Foundation into Canadian environmental groups and First Nations bands opposed to, most specifically, the Northern Gateway pipeline. She’s the self-published author of The Tar Sands Campaign Against the Overseas Export of Canadian Oil: Activism or Economic Sabotage? But, as critics point out, she frequently lands paid speaking engagements with businessfriendly organizations in Western Canada.

Once dismissed as a fringe player in the mainstream media, her research is now grudgingly seen as plausible, even by mainstream outlets like the CBC. As I mined mountains of data (and took a hard look at my energy-wasting habits), I wondered if there was a wise, clear thinker who had examined the effects of global warming and yet who recognizes that the

oilsands contribute significantly to the economy. An environmentalist who might actually refer to them as “oilsands.” And then I remembered a name: Chris Turner.

All I knew about the guy was that he had written quite an optimistic book about the future of alternative energy: The Geography of Hope: A Guided Tour of the World We Need.

He even ran for the Green Party in a Calgary Centre byelection in 2012 and might actually have won if he hadn’t split the centre-left vote with Liberal nominee Harvey Locke, himself an environmentalist of some renown.

In 2017, Turner wrote The Patch: The People, Pipeline, and Politics of the Oil Sands, the last chapter of which was excerpted in a Sept. 2017 issue of The Walrus magazine.

Turner had grown up close to Fort McMurray at a time in which the vast potential of the Alberta oil sands had yet to be unlocked. His award-winning book tells the heartfelt, personal stories of émigrés from Atlantic Canada and recent immigrants from Pakistan.

Speaking from his home in Calgary, Turner explains the genesis of environmental opposition to the tar

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sands. “Greenhouse-gas emissions, global warming and climate change were simply too abstract for most Americans to wrap their heads around.” That is, until they found the Keystone XL pipeline.

In The Patch, Turner details the connection between NASA climate scientist James Hansen and American nature writer Bill McKibben, author of the bleakly titled 1989 bestseller, The End of Nature.

In an essay—some might call it a manifesto—Hansen calls out his fellow scientists to speak out against greenhousegas emissions; specifically the burning of coal and development of northern Alberta’s oilsands that, if fully developed, would be “game over for the planet.”

McKibben knew a good story when he saw one and rewrote Hansen’s missive as a call to action. Most importantly, and how this event relates to the Trans-Mountain expansion (TMX), is McKibben’s assertion that “The Keystone pipeline (KXL) would be a 1,500-mile (2,414-kilometre) fuse to the biggest carbon bomb on the continent” which would “trigger the final overheating of our planet.”

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“It’s verifiably true that American environmental groups used the pipeline to attract donors to a tangible cause. Opposition to climate change was languishing until the flash-point created by opposition to KXL.” CHRIS TURNER Opposition to the pipeline did not take place in Fort Mac or outside the massive open-pit mines that started showing up in the media, but was centred in Washington, D.C., where in March, 2014, 200 protestors were arrested after zap-strapping themselves to the fencing surrounding the White House lawn. McKibben and members of his 350.org successfully organized political opposition—much of it using social media— and gained a huge ally when hedgefund billionaire Tom Steyer read one of McKibben’s anti-oilsands essays in Rolling Stone magazine. It was a bold tactic but it eventually worked; by the time Obama left office in 2016, he had officially vetoed the pipeline.

There are even conspiracy theories which posit that these environmental groups—some of which are funded by the Rockefeller family (the Standard Oil/ ExxonMobil fortune)—oppose oilsands imports in order to aid oil production in the United States. A recent CBC investigation also showed that Twitter had recently deleted bots that have actively re-tweeted articles that could potentially stoke antipipeline sentiment and originated from energy competitors such as Iran, Russian and Venezuela.

In a cruel irony for Suncor, Cenovus and other companies operating in the oilsands, the innovative horizontal drilling methods uses to extract bitumen from the sands have also been able to liberate vast new reserves of oil from shale formations in places such as the Permian Basin in Texas; a field which geophysicists once thought had been depleted. So while close to 100,000 workers were being laid off in Alberta and Saskatchewan due to lack of pipeline access, the state of Texas was in the process of approving 30 new pipelines going directly from the newfound reservoirs to refineries in Houston

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and the Gulf Coast—needless to say, at much cheaper prices.

Turner publicly criticizes ardent pipeline supporters such as Krause, noting that American foundation money funneled to protect the Great Bear Rainforest was unrelated to any explicit anti-tar sands campaign. “The way she interprets her data does not follow; not even a little bit. For instance, she often quotes the influence of a group called Corporate Ethics International on stopping the tar sands,” Turner, who once worked for the oft-maligned Tides Canada, says. “I can tell you for sure that groups like Tides Canada do not take their marching orders from Corporate Ethics International.”

Alternately, Turner is dismayed that environmental groups won’t own up to the fact that stopping the pipelines will not prevent a “so-called carbon bomb.”

“It’s verifiably true that American environmental groups used the pipeline to attract donors to a tangible cause,” he said. “Opposition to climate change was languishing until the flash-point created by opposition to KXL.” Current—and even future— development of the oilsands is “such a tiny piece of the global energy rush,” he said.

“You cannot open the conversation about the pipeline without being persona non grata amongst the environmental advocates.”

Turner also has critical words for B.C. premier John Horgan, who said his government would “use any tool in its toolbox” to stop the pipeline as a tactic to neutralize Green Party support during an election campaign, while also promising to remove tolls on the Port Mann Bridge to win votes in the Fraser Valley.

Turner said that an enormous amount of progress was being made on the climatechange file between the federal and provincial governments on big issues like

carbon pricing, coal plant shutdowns, and spill mitigation. Oil companies both big and small were content with progressive legislation on emissions caps. Alas, this “Pan Canadian moment” as he called it, will likely pass with the election of the rabble-rousing United Conservative Party in Alberta’s next provincial election.

FINDING CONSENSUS: WHAT THE POLLS TELL US

Author Markham Hislop wryly noted that his job is to “explain Alberta to folks in B.C., and vice-versa.” His new book, The New Alberta Advantage: Technology, the Oil Sands and The Future of Energy, will be released later this year.

He points to research that clearly shows that there is general consensus among British Columbians and Albertans on a number of energy issues. Fifty-eight per cent of Canadians believe that delays in pipeline construction “represent a crisis in this country,” according to a recent poll by the Angus Reid Institute. More significantly, 65 per cent of British Columbians see oil and gas being of paramount importance to the overall Canadian economy, far outdistancing farming, forestry, and tourism. Nationwide, only 18 per cent of all Canadians see tourism as being of major importance to the economy.

Another poll, this one administered by Abacus Data after the purchase of the Trans Mountain Pipeline from Houston-based Kinder Morgan last summer, showed that 39 per cent of British Columbians have “no strong opinion” on pipelines, nor do 27 per cent of Albertans. Fifty per cent of Albertans are opposed to a carbon tax, but so are 37 per cent of all British Columbians.

Hislop says that Alberta has finally

been forced to face up to its large carbon footprint, thanks in part to current Premier Rachel Notley. “She recognizes that the transformation of the global energy industry will have significant effects on the Alberta economy and that there is no going back to the days of the ‘Alberta Advantage’ under premiers Peter Lougheed, Don Getty, and Ralph Klein,” he says.

Hislop interprets Abacus’s findings as “Canada’s energy consensus,” and offers, as an example, B.C. Premier John Horgan’s battle with Notley over the TMX last spring.

“Polling data clearly shows that support for the pipeline went up—the public was essentially telling Horgan that this was not a key issue for them,” he says. Indeed, Horgan has backed away from defending the rights of British Columbians and no longer seems willing to use “every tool in our toolbox to fight the pipeline,” as he wrote on Facebook in August 2017.

“Out of 100 million barrels that humans consume every day, 10 million is heavy crude and 3 million of that is de-carbonized heavy crude from Alberta that is significantly cleaner than its competitors,” Hislop explains. “Refineries along America’s Gulf Coast have spent over $1 billion to process this heavy crude, which has completely different end uses than light, sweet crude which everyone compares it to.

“Canada can improve its competitive advantage by selling decarbonized heavy oil and taking market share away from Venezuela and Mexico. British Columbians need to recognize that if Canadian oilsands production is stopped tomorrow, then these expensive refineries will still want heavily carbonized crude oil from countries that, quite frankly, don’t give a shit about emissions.”

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“British Columbians need to recognize that if Canadian oil sands production is stopped tomorrow, then these expensive refineries will still want heavily carbonized crude oil from countries that, quite frankly, don’t give a shit about emissions.”

MARKHAM HISLOP every metre of pipeline that’s excavated as it snakes from central Alberta through the mountains of the B.C. Interior to Trans Mountain’s tank farm in north Burnaby. More than 200 protesters were arrested in 2018 for defying a courtordered injunction to stay away from the facility, and actual spade-work has yet to begin. Justin Trudeau’s political capital in ridings like Burnaby North and North Vancouver has probably evaporated; indeed, several ridings along the pipeline route were captured by the NDP in the 2017 provincial election.

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Part of the reason why the rest of Canada— and British Columbia in particular—has been blind to Alberta’s plight is that we have our own issues to deal with. Neither of the well-educated Alberta engineers whom I consulted knew anything about how Vancouver’s housing market has been

gamed—according to reports—by druglords with ties to Chinese organized crime paying cash for 15,000-square-foot homes in West Vancouver. Or that close to 1,500 people fatally overdosed on the synthetic opioid fentanyl last year.

It’s hard, as a skier, not to accept that climate change is real—after all, how could you not after seeing thousands of square kilometres of vanishing glaciers?

But the foe here is global warming, not “Canada warming,” Slubucki contends.

Canada, with 0.5 per cent of the world’s population, produces about two per cent of global CO2 emissions. On a per-capita basis, that makes us one of the highest energy consumers on the planet. Oilsands account for 10 per cent of Canada’s GHG emissions and about 0.15 per cent of global GHG emissions. Although 0.15 per cent does not seem to be a huge number, given the fact the oilsands are—depending on who you believe—the world’s largest-ever energy extraction project, it is certainly significant.

The carbon footprint from the oilsands also includes the tremendous amount of natural gas needed to make the steam that extracts

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Canadians can hardly lecture people living in the slums of virtually any major developing-world city that only consume their four barrels of energy per year while we guzzle through more than 60. As someone who grew up in a boomtown in the boonies (and harbours zero nostalgia about the place and has no desire to return), I recognize Canada needs places where individuals and families alike can build wealth and own secure housing— without needing to borrow vast amounts of money to attain a professional degree.

Tossing 60,000 people out of work to save a fractional amount of carbon seems like folly to me, especially since the buyers will simply look to another source.

In my lifetime, we’ve overcome the nuclear arms race, acid rain, and mitigated the scourge of HIV/AIDS. Thanks to the internet, we have vastly more resources to solve scientific problems, if our rage at opposing points of view doesn’t kill us first.

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For his upcoming book, Hislop interviewed electric vehicle experts in the United States who told him that the earliest date for an inflection point—when electric vehicles will outnumber gas-powered ones—will be 2040, and it will then take at least another 20 years for them to be retired altogether. There has to be a better environmental solution than junking millions of perfectly good, fuel-efficient vehicles and replacing them with Teslas— Consumer Reports no longer recommends the Tesla Model 3, citing reliability issues with the car. (For its part, Tesla has pointed to the vehicle’s high overall customer satisfaction rating and says it has already corrected many of the issues identified by owners.)

Markets for Canadian petroleum products need to be diversified to reduce dependence on exports to the United States. Outside North America, Canada is the world’s most trusted energy producer due to reliability of supply, a stable political

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t’s spring in northeastern Europe and I’m surfing the lilac blooms north, starting from, and finishing in Finland.

Several years ago, I followed the migratory birds south in the fall, across France (Pique, Sept. 27, 2015, “Taking the Road less Travelled”)—this time the journey is inspired by flora.

Twenty-seven years after the collapse of communism, former East Block Poland, as well as the ex-USSR Baltic States are still quite monotonously drab, so the flowers provide welcome respite from the grey and green of the countryside.

Another colourful accent is provided by the postage stamps that I collect en route, as I wander from post office to post office seeking additions to my lifetime collection. They are the ideal souvenirs for a bike traveller, as they add virtually no additional mass to the 7.5 kilograms in my panniers!

To enjoy the lilacs at their peak, one must gain almost a line of latitude daily (110 kilometres as the crow flies). Transposed on a map of B.C, I cover the latitudinal equivalent of Whistler to the Yukon border in 12 days, not difficult without mountains or headwinds to slow progress.

For the first couple of days I’m accompanied by my partner Hisano Motohashi. But she unfortunately develops a swollen knee that, though rectified by adjusting her cleat position, still results in her having to take a few days off to recover. As she has to return to Warsaw to get her passport back anyway, it works out well and we plan to reconnect in Latvia.

I proceed alone across rural Lithuania, enjoying the time warp of its bucolic low-tech culture, where the locals still carry water on their bicycles or on their shoulders.

My idyll is interrupted by a harrowing detour through the chaotic traffic of the capital Vilnius in the hopes of reconnecting with Hisano, but alas I have risked my life for

nothing as she missed the bus from Warsaw.

Doggedly determined to rejoin me, she’ll catch up two days later in Balvi, Latvia, travelling by bus, train, bike and taxi.

But there, awaiting her arrival, I coincidentally experience a “joint problem” of my own—the frame of my bike has suddenly cracked below the handlebar stem. Fortunately for me, it could not have happened at a better place or at a better time. It is 3 p.m. on a Thursday, in the only town I’ve seen all day, in front of the only tourist information booth I’ve seen in 300 km, where surely I can find someone who can speak English.

Sure enough, Ineta speaks fluent English, and contacts the local auto-body repair shop down the street. Twenty minutes and €6 (about $9) later, my bike is as good as new. As a minimalist, I am reluctant to buy new things more substantial than postcards and stamps, so the average age of my 14-unit bike fleet is now over 20 years.

It’s not a huge surprise, then, when an old frame spontaneously fails; in fact, lately it has become an annual event, the others occurring in France, Whistler and New Zealand. This trip, I’m riding a bike 25 years old that has travelled 48,000 km with loaded panniers.

Although it may sound like a cycle tourist’s worst nightmare, frame failure is really a rather minor inconvenience compared to other possible mechanical issues. Riding as I usually do in rural and remote areas, I can be hundreds of km from the nearest bike shop, but am rarely very far from someone who can weld steel.

Reunited, Hisano and I ride east from Balvi because we have an appointment with Russia.

Pick up Pique next week, or go online to piquenewsmagazine.com to read how Tom navigates through Russia as his bike odyssey continues. Part 3 will run April 4. n

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Peiffer earns victory at nationals NORDIC SKIER EAGER FOR CONTINENTAL BIATHLON CHAMPIONSHIPS AT WHISTLER OLYMPIC PARK

BY DAN FALLOON BENITA PEIFFER IS BEST in a dash and she proved it at the Canadian Ski Championships in Cantley, Que. In the junior women’s sprint heats, the local Nordic skier performed well enough to advance while conserving her energy, winning her first round, taking second in the second round and edging out Ontario’s Shaylynn Loewen in the final by just 0.27 seconds and Revelstoke’s Elizabeth Elliott by 0.65 seconds.

“It was surreal. My time at nationals was going OK but not what I expected,” she said. “It was honestly awesome. It was what I needed to finish off my season.”

Peiffer said while sprints are generally her forte, it’s also the event where things can go from great to gruesome in a hurry.

“You never know what can happen on a sprint day. You could always trip and fall and things can just go sideways so quickly, but luckily for me, everything went well, my skis were awesome. I was having a super awesome day beside my teammates and trying to stay positive,” she said. “Things just worked in my favour that day.

“I tried to play it smart and go a little bit

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easier in the first couple heats to make sure that I’m taking it slow,” she said.

In the final, Peiffer hung back in the first lap, but stayed close enough to allow herself a chance to pass at just the right time to claim the win.

“I was able to stick right behind them going into the downhill. There was a point

before a ninth in the mass start. She was ill coming into nationals, so her training was affected and she didn’t start as quickly as she’d have liked.

“I think I maybe could have been in a little bit better condition for nationals, but considering how I was able to prepare myself coming into it, I was pretty happy,”

“You never know what can happen on a sprint day. You could always trip and fall and things can just go sideways so quickly, but luckily for me, everything went well, my skis were awesome.”

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where I was able to get into second place and then going up the last hill, I went up the hill beside the girl who got second. She died and she wasn’t able to push through and that’s when I made my move,” she said. “It was a long downhill to the finish.

“There was the option for girls to draft me and pass me, but luckily, I skied fast enough and I was able to get to the finish in time.”

Earlier in the week, Peiffer took fifth in the interval event, and eighth in the pursuit

she said. “Races weren’t going how I wanted, but you’ve got to have fun with it and that’s how I was able to perform my best.”

A number of other Whistlerites were in action at nationals. Michael Murdoch was fourth in the junior men’s sprint race, fifth in the interval race and sixth in the pursuit. Joe Davies also had some top-10 finishes, placing sixth in the junior boys’ pursuit, seventh in the interval, 11th in the sprint and 12th in the mass start. Meanwhile, in the juvenile girls’ category, Marlie Molinaro scored a

10th-place finish in the sprints to go with a 14th-place showing in the interval, 15th in the pursuit and 23rd in the mass start. Lastly, Sierra Pochay-McBain with a best result of 45th in the juvenile girls’ sprints.

Peiffer will be in action at home this weekend for the North American Biathlon Championships at Whistler Olympic Park, an event she’s looking forward to.

“I haven’t really been doing biathlon much this season because there’s been a lot going on for me, so I just took a break from it,” she said. “Being in Whistler, I’m going to take the opportunity and do it.

“I haven’t shot my rifle much recently, but I’m just going to go out, have fun with it and get back into things.”

Racing starts at 10 a.m. each day with March 27 (sprints), March 28 (individual), March 30 (pursuit) and March 31 (relays) serving as race days.

Chief of competition Clay Whitman said more than 180 athletes are set to compete hard over the four days of competition.

“Conditions are great. We’ve got a little bit of snow and a sunny forecast for the next few days, so we’re pretty excited about that,” he said.

About half the field is from B.C. and Alberta, and most of the national team members are set to compete, Whitman said.

“The best biathletes in the country are here and you can get a great spot to view the action right up against the field of play,” he said.

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Clarke to represent Canada at Jr. Worlds

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BY DAN FALLOON SKYE CLARKE HAS HAD plenty of slopestyle success in North America this season—now she’s hoping to bring it to the world.

The 16-year-old Whistlerite has podiumed in two of her five NorAm Cup events this season, including a win at Waterville Valley Resort in January. That excellence helped her make the Canadian contingent getting set to represent Canada at the FIS Junior World Ski Championships in Klappen, Sweden next month.

“I never really expected it. I was just at school on my spare. I opened my email and there was an invite,” she recalled, noting that she contacted close friend Josephine Howell to let her know they both made the team.

Clarke leaves for Europe on April 4, but will first head to Quebec for the week before for the final NorAm event of the season where she will look to lock down second place in the overall standings. Admittedly, it’s been a whirlwind season for the rookie, who splits her training time between Whistler and Calgary.

“I didn’t expect any of it to happen, to be honest. It was my first year on the NorAm circuit, so I wasn’t expecting what happened,” she said.

All told, Clarke said she was most proud of her showings at Waterville and the March 17 event at Mammoth Mountain, where she took second. As the season has gone on, Clarke has worked hard to up the difficulty of her runs and, hopefully, secure higher scores in the process.

“I definitely put down the hardest runs I’ve ever done in Mammoth, so I’m really excited about that,” she said. “I just learned a switch (900), so I just added that into my run in Mammoth for the first time.”

The Junior Worlds will be Clarke’s first overseas competition, though she had her first across-the-pond training session in New Zealand earlier this season. Clarke is taking the new experiences in stride, attempting to soak in as much as possible and become a better skier.

“I’ve just gotten a little bit more confident with everything,” she said. “I’ve learned two (900s), so that’s really cool. I’ve just been skiing and learning.”

LOCALS SHINE ON NATIONAL STAGES Whistler athletes performed impressively in a plethora of recent national-level events.

Leading the charge was 14-year-old Chase Capicik, who placed fourth in moguls at the National Championships at Val-St-Come, Que. on March 23. Capicik missed the podium by less than two points. Teammates Brooke Armstrong

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and Malica Malherbe placed sixth and seventh, respectively.

On the men’s side, Sam Cordell took a 10th-place finish in a packed field while teammates Josh Maga (14th) and Philip Kang (29th) also hit the top 30.

In the March 24 dual moguls, Jessica Linton was the top local in ninth while Capicik and Malherbe were 12th and 14th, respectively. Maga, meanwhile, took 26th among men.

Capicik was fresh off winning a silver in U16 dual moguls and bronze in moguls at the Canadian Junior Championships at Le Relais, Que. the weekend prior, while Leda Walker (U14 women’s) and Mattheus Heslop (U14 men’s) won bronze in their respective divisions. Emilia Oziewicz, meanwhile, came home with bronze in U14 women’s aerials.

At the other half of the Canadian Junior Championships in Calgary earlier this month, Caoihme Heavey topped the U16 women’s slopestyle event while taking a fourth in big air.

At the Canada Cup event at Mount St. Louis Moonstone, Ont. on March 16 and 17, locals boasted a pair of fourth-place finishes as Josephine Howell was just 2.60 points off the podium for halfpipe, while Ben Lynch was just 1.80 back in the men’s competition.

In slopestyle, Howell took another fourthplace showing, four points off the podium, while Lynch placed 14th. n

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Shorter wins U16 provincial crown LAFRENIERE STARS IN QUEBEC; WHISTLER U14S EXCELLENT IN PRINCE GEORGE while Fiona McInnes took sixth. She also won the March 22 race, while McInnes jumped to fifth.

In the slalom, Isabella Cross took a sixth-place finish on March 23 while Holly Clarke was 10th. In the March 24 event, Stiel took fourth and Clarke was again 10th.

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BY DAN FALLOON CONSISTENCY IS KEY in ski racing and it was rewarded during the BC Alpine U16 overall championship chase.

Whistler Mountain Ski Club (WMSC) competitor Matthias Shorter benefitted from an incredibly consistent Teck Open season, in which he finished no lower than eighth, by claiming the overall title after the provincial series wrapped at Apex Mountain Resort in Penticton on March 25.

“That was one of my goals at the start of the season, to try to do the best that I could in the overall and perhaps win it,” said Shorter, who will bring plenty of confidence into next month’s Whistler Cup. “I was leading the overall after Kimberley, which was the series before this, and then I thought, ‘OK, I’ve just got to ski as fast as I can for this last series and maybe I can win it.’

“There was still lots of competition.

There were still four people going into this last race who could win it.”

After starting the weekend with a fourth-place finish in the slalom, Shorter took three consecutive podium appearances, second in the second slalom, winning the first giant slalom and third

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PROVINCIAL CHAMPS Jaden Dawson and Matthias Shorter celebrate their U16 provincial titles.

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in the second GS. Shorter noted that his victory was his first of the season, which helped pad his overall lead.

In the March 21 slalom, Chase Burns was second, John Nicolls was third, Hayden Harley took sixth, Sam Fuller was eighth and Adam Usher was 10th. The next day, also in a slalom, Nicolls was third, while Usher, Duncan Ross, Graham Seltzer and Fuller were sixth through ninth, respectively.

Switching to the giant slalom, Fuller took second to Shorter in the March 23

event, Seltzer was fourth, Harley eighth and Ross ninth. In the final race on March 24, Nicolls earned second, while Burns was fourth, David Wood took fifth and Fuller was eighth.

On the women’s side, Squamish’s Jaden Dawson brought home the overall title for WMSC. She hit the podium in all four races, with three third-place performances to go with her second-place showing in the second giant slalom.

Sara Stiel was impressive on the large course, winning the March 21 giant slalom

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Whistler’s Kaila Lafreniere got a fresh look at ski racing during a three-month sojourn to Quebec.

She also found plenty of success at the U16 provincial race earlier this month, winning a gold medal to go along with a pair of silvers at Mont Garceau earlier this month.

Showing off both her speed and technical talents, Lafreniere won the super-G race while being the only skier to truly test champion Arianne Forget in the pair of giant slalom races in her biggest event of the year.

Forget won the Canada Winter Games super-G, so for Lafreniere to best her this time was a major accomplishment.

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Lafreniere crashed in the slalom earlier in the festival, but was still excited for the races she ended up excelling in, noting that super-G is her strongest discipline.

“I thought that day is my day. I was going to win,” Lafreniere recalled.

Lafreniere went to Quebec this winter to increase her training and to improve with the Belle Neige-S1 ski team, currently attending a school where classes end at 2 p.m., which allows her to train from then until 5:30 p.m.

She spent the season getting tough competition in races around the province, including against some skiers that will go to next month’s Mackenzie Investments Whistler Cup. “It’s pretty difficult being away from my family and my friends from Whistler but skiing here is really cool and I’ve been training really hard,” she said.

Lafreniere will plan to return to Quebec next winter and then return to Whistler for the 2020 Whistler Cup.

WMSC U14S STAR AT PROVINCIALS Felix Shorter and Alexa Brownlie went home with plenty of hardware from the U14 provincials in Prince George earlier this month as they won the overall provincial titles.

Shorter, who won both the slalom and giant slalom events, credited excellent preparation, including well-tuned skis and a keen eye, for his success.

“I had a pretty good inspection. I knew the course really well, so I could ski it how I inspected,” he said. “It was grippy snow and it was aggressive, so if you pushed on the outside ski, you could trust the snow and it would bring you to the next turn.”

Shorter was confident heading in after a strong performance in 2018.

“I was trying to win. Last year at provincials, I had a pretty good time, so I thought I could win (this time),” he said.

Brownlie, meanwhile, won the slalom and was second in the giant slalom. She was the first to drop in the slalom race, and while she initially grappled with the gravitas of that opportunity, realized it was a great chance for gold.

“I had a super nice course so I just really charged it and it worked out well,” she said. “I was pretty nervous the night before, but the more that I thought about it, it didn’t really matter. The snow conditions had been really soft, so it was more of an advantage than something to be nervous about.”

Brownlie said she didn’t start the way she would have liked at the first event of the year, but with some time to readjust before the second set of races at Mount Seymour. In that series, which also featured U16 competitors, Brownlie worked hard and found ways to achieve her goals.

“After my first run (against U16s), I was in third for overall, U16 and U14, and in first for U14. I thought, ‘OK, you can do this,’ and that just gave me the confidence to carry it through this tough month,” she said.

U12 SKIERS EXCEL AT SUN PEAKS AND JANYK CUP The next generation of WMSC skiers had a strong showing at the Nancy Greene Hub International Ski Festival at Sun Peaks on March 22 and 23. The festival is designed for those aged four to 11, racing in groups based on their birth years.

In the dual ‘glalom’ (a hybrid slalom and giant slalom), Nicole Webb and Thea Torn were first and second among 2007 females.

Among 2008 competitors, Sophie Neeves was third for females while the males swept the podium via Dreas Gibbons, Kingsley Parkhill and Graydyn Swanson, in order.

In the moguls, Seth Robert took a second-place finish among 2007 males while the club swept the 2008 males podium again with Marek Novak, Gibbons and Liam Gotfried medalling in order.

In the Kombi event, Marlowe Cook was second among 2007 females while the 2008 males swept again, with Gibbons, Parkhill and Swanson taking the top three steps, respectively.

In the speed race, Cook was the top 2007 female competitor while Webb tied teammate Thea Torn for third. Among 2008 females, Naomi Robert was third while for 2008 males, Spencer Wardle placed third.

Lastly, for the jump event, Maxim Akbulatov took second for 2007 males while Swanson was third among the 2008 males.

The week earlier, WMSC hosted the second-annual Janyk Cup with over 100 U12 skiers taking part. Thomas Legg and Thea Torn took home the overall titles on the men’s and women’s sides, respectively, after posting the fastest combined giant slalom (GS) times.

Legg, competing in the 2007 division, was second in the first GS and first in the second. Maxim Akbulatov was third in the second running. As for the 2007 women, Torn was second in the first run and first in the second run. Teammate Marlowe Cook won the first run, while in the second run, Hannah Jenson was in second and Nicole Webb in third helped secure a WMSC podium sweep.

As for the 2008 athletes, Dreas Gibbons won the first men’s race while Kingsley Parkhill was second. Parkhill won the second event. As for the women, Naomi Robert and Sophie Neeves were second and third, respectively, in the second event. Meanwhile, Oliver Baynham and Sarah Keogh were the fastest male and female racers among 2009s in the first event. Baynham also won the second run while Ruby Cook and Keogh took the top two spots in order.

In the dual glalom, meanwhile, WMSC dominated. Legg led a sweep on the 2007 men’s side, as he was followed by Ryan Perron and Owen Stanniforth, while on the women’s side, Webb was ahead of Jenson and Cook. In the 2008 event, Parkhill edged out Gibbons and Graydyn Swanson, while Neeves topped the women’s side. Baynham and Cook, meanwhile, were the top 2009 racers.

Recalling Janyk’s contributions to the club, U12 lead coach Gillian McFetridge said in a release: “I remember her passion for ski racing and her devotion to the Whistler Mountain Ski Club. I feel confident in saying that our parent volunteers this weekend, many of whom are new to the club, bring an enthusiasm for ski racing that was a fitting tribute.” n

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Hess looks back on 2018-19 campaign SPORTS BRIEFS: WHISTLER PUCKSTERS EARN BRONZE; ILES EARNS SECOND-PLACE FINISH AT CRANKWORX

BY DAN FALLOON ETHAN HESS’ 2018-19 campaign started slowly, but it ultimately wrapped with a gauntlet of action.

Earlier this month, the 19-year-old sit skier wrapped a stretch that included the World Para-Nordic Skiing Championships in Prince George and the Canada Winter Games in Red Deer, Alta.

“I’m not used to doing so many races in such a short time,” he said, noting he completed seven races in about a twoweek span. “It was pretty rough. I was beaten up after.”

The Worlds didn’t go as well as hoped, with Hess taking a top individual result of 15th in the middle-distance race.

“It went alright. I had some OK races at worlds. It wasn’t a disaster but it wasn’t exactly what I was looking for,” he said.

The highlight for Hess, however, was that he got a chance to compete in a relay with teammates Kyle Barber and paraNordic legend Brian McKeever, but he only found out about the opportunity the evening before.

“He’s one of the most accomplished Paralympians ever, so that was a really,

really cool experience,” Hess said.

Hess’ Canada Games experience brought him plenty of gold, however, as he won all three of his races, two of which were a British Columbia podium sweep. Though he was anticipating that level of personal success, Hess said he was happiest to see his teammates excel alongside him.

WHISTLER PUCKSTERS EARN BRONZE For the first time in the Sea to Sky, all three hockey teams with Whistler players qualified for Tier 3 provincials.

Building on that success, all three of them made it to the third-place game, with two of those bringing home hardware.

To start, the peewee Winterhawks wrapped the Tier 3 provincials in Powell River with a 4-1-1 record, winning bronze by defeating Quesnel 6-0 in the third-place game. Whistler reeled off three consecutive wins to start the tournament, beating Dawson Creek 8-2, Castlegar 7-2 and Tri Port 7-4 before playing Quesnel to a 2-2 draw. The Winterhawks suffered a 1-0 heartbreaker to Powell River in the semifinal to end up in the bronze game.

Meanwhile, the Squamish midget squad, stocked with plenty of Whistler

STRONG SEASON Pemberton’s Ethan Hess enjoyed a

from Terrace in the semifinal, but the squad rebounded by eking out a 2-1 win over Powell River for bronze.

Lastly, the bantam Winterhawks posted a 3-3 mark en route to a fourth-place finish in Port Hardy. The Winterhawks had a strong 3-1 record in group play, opening with wins of 3-2 over Cranbrook and 10-1 over Kelowna before falling 5-1 to the hosts from Tri Port. Whistler wrapped group play with a 6-2 victory over Dawson Creek. The playoffs, however, saw the Winterhawks’ potent attack unable to keep up with its opponents, dropping an 11-5 semifinal decision to eventual champions Mission before falling 9-8 to Terrace with the winner coming in the game’s final two minutes.

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players, had the best record of any team at Tier provincials in Cranbrook with a 5-1 mark, but the loss unfortunately came in the semifinal. The team breezed through group play with wins of 7-3 over Salmon Arm, 7-1 over Castlegar, 3-2 over Powell River and 7-1 over Cranbrook. Squamish was nicked 3-2 by the eventual champions

ILES EARNS SECOND-PLACE FINISH AT CRANKWORX Whistler’s Finn Iles got his downhill season off to an outstanding start at Crankworx Rotorua on Friday, March 22.

Iles earned a second-place finish in the Crankworx Rotorua Downhill’s pro elite division, finishing just 0.09 seconds back of winner Brook MacDonald of New Zealand.

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GREAT HEIGHTS Tom Peiffer wrapped his Freeride World Tour season with a sixth-place finish in Switzerland.

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“I’m pretty happy. First race of the year is always a bit nerve-wracking, but last year I got third here and this year I got second, in completely different conditions. It was a close race. I made one kind of stupid mistake, but other than that it was a really good run and I’m happy to come out in second,” Iles said in a release.

On the women’s side, Australian Tracey Hannah cruised to a win by nearly five seconds over New Zealand’s Kate Weatherly while defending champion Tahnee Seagrave of Great Britain was third. Whistler’s Georgia Astle was near the middle of the pack in ninth.

The other downhill race, the Rotorua Air DH on March 20, saw American Mitch Ropelato take the men’s win over Australia’s Mick Hannah and Canadian Bas Van Steenbergen while Whistler’s Jesse Melamed placed 16th. Canadian Vaea Verbeeck bested Anneke Beerten of the Netherlands and New Zealand’s Shania Rawson for the women’s crown.

Elsewhere at Crankworx, Canadian Brett Rheeder got his slopestyle season off to an excellent start with a win in the Maxxis Slopestyle in Memory of McGazza on March 23, scoring a 93.75 to top France’s Tomas Lemoine (87) and Sweden’s Alex Alanko (80.75).

Meanwhile, Lemoine topped the RockShox Rotorua Pump Track Challenge on March 22, beating New Zealand’s Keegan Wright in the final while France’s Adrien Loron took third by defeating New Zealand’s Billy Meaclem in the small final. As for the women, American Kialani Hines earned the victory over New Zealand’s Shania Rawson while Seagrave downed Canadian Vaea Verbeeck in the small final for third.

New Zealand rookie Meaclem, however, had earned a victory in the Mons Royale Speed and Style on March 21, downing Sweden’s Martin Soderstrom in the final while American Greg Watts earned bronze over Lemoine in the small final. Earlier in the day, at the Official Oceania WhipOff Championships, Austrian Peter Kaiser earned the win, sharing the podium with American Ryan Howard and Meaclem, while New Zealand’s Vinny Armstrong topped Canadian Casey Brown and Australian

Ronja Hill-Wright for the women’s win.

Lastly, in the 100% Dual Slalom Rotorua, Keegan Wright bested Van Steenbergen in the men’s final, while Kyle Strait topped Barry Nobles in an all-American small final. For the women, Verbeeck earned the victory over Beerten while Seagrave defeated Weatherly in the small final.

In the early King and Queen of Crankworx standings, Lemoine holds a small lead over Wright and Meaclem on the men’s side while among women, Verbeeck has the jump on Beerten and Rawson.

Full results are available online at www. crankworx.com.

MELAMED FOURTH IN EWS SEASON OPENER Whistler’s Jesse Melamed got off to an excellent start to the Enduro World Series at the Giant Toa Enduro in New Zealand on March 24.

Melamed was just 10.14 seconds off the podium and 51.65 seconds back of winner Martin Maes of Belgium. New Zealand’s Keegan Wright was second and France’s Florian Nicolai was third. Whistler’s Yoann Barelli, meanwhile, took 28th.

On the women’s side, Andreane Lanthier Nadeau kicked off her campaign in sixth, 46.14 seconds back of winner Isabeau Coudurier of France. In second and third were France’s Morgane Charre and Great Britain’s Rebecca Baraona, respectively.

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PEIFFER WRAPS SEASON IN SIXTH Whistler Freeride Club alumnus Tom Peiffer completed a successful 2019 rookie season by finishing in sixth place in the overall standings.

In the final event of the season in Verbier, Switzerland, Peiffer posted an eighth-place finish to secure his spot for the 2020 campaign, finishing in the top 10 in four of five events.

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Contending with oily situations GO ‘CANOLA’ OR GO HOME! OIL IS ONE HOT ITEM these days. Only this time I’m talking about canola and palm oil, not the black stuff we’re still pumping out of the ground like there’s no tomorrow.

Nobody likes an oily deal, and right now Canada is in a justifiable flap over one: China is banning the import of Canadian canola, ostensibly because it contains, quote, “dangerous pests” or “harmful organisms.”

Of course, no one on the Canadian side has

BY GLENDA BARTOSH found evidence of these supposed pests, but many do see the whole thing as retaliation for the arrest of Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver.

In 2010, a similar food fight happened in Norway when the Nobel Peace Prize went to Liu Xiaobo, a political prisoner in China.

In response, China nuked its bilateral trade deal with Norway, and restricted imports of Norwegian salmon.

The canola thing is equally fishy. It’s also serious—$4-billion-worth-of-annualsales serious.

Thousands of farmers in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba rely heavily on canola. China buys about 40 per cent of all Canadian canola exports, and not just oil. China also likes, or at least they used to,

PALM-OIL PROBLEMS Global palm-oil production has quadrupled from 1995 to 2015.

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our canola meal and seed, some of which is used as feed for livestock and aquaculture.

As for the oil, it has a light, pleasant taste especially useful when you don’t want olive oil flavouring your culinary creations, including Chinese food.

Anyone growing up on the prairies as I did (see other prairie-girl true confessions in my column last week), knows we prairie folk trumpet using canola oil to support our local farmers. Rapeseed it was once called, a name that made us giggle knowingly as kids in the back seat of the car as we drove past the gorgeous yellow fields in bloom.

The idea of supporting local farmers sticks with me still. So, I say, arm yourselves with oil, my fellow Canucks, and go “canola” or go home!

Sure, bottles of canola oil are easy to source. As for the rest of your oil-based food supply, namely processed foods from bread to biscuits, just read the label. You might be pleasantly surprised. For instance, Walkers of Scotland’s yummy three-seed oat crackers are still made with canola oil. Plop, went the packages into our grocery cart.

I say “still” because it’s a rare moment in paradise you find any processed foods not made with palm oil these days. Which brings us to another oily mess.

Palm oil is a sneaky bugger. To start, production has quadrupled from 1995 to 2015. By 2050, it is expected to quadruple again, states an excellent report, “How the World Got Hooked on Palm Oil,” in The Guardian. It has become so ubiquitous you can barely buy a tube of lipstick or a bottle of shampoo without getting stuck in palm oil. Palmolive, anyone?

Yes, palm oil has lifted famers out of poverty, but it has also produced far more devastation than good. The EU is so concerned about palm oil’s terrible impact, both on the environment and people, it plans to block palm oil imports from Malaysia. In a strange twist in trade wars, Malaysia has now threatened to source jets from China instead of the EU. Trade war sagas will continue to zig and zag until we’re all entrenched in anarchy from global warming, but there’s no mistaking the damage from palm-oil production in the meantime.

Books and reports, and more books and reports, have been written on palm oil’s dirty little secrets. My eyes were opened in 2013 when Whistlerite Mieke Prummel suggested I look into the best cooking oil to use. That lead to my columns “Just say no— really loudly—to palm oil” and “No more palming off” along with frequent reminders to simply read labels and put those cookies made with palm oil back on the shelf. (That goes to show I love your story ideas, dear readers, so please keep ‘em coming to my email address at the end of this column.)

To avoid palm oil, I have some suggestions. Again, just read your labels.

Admittedly, you almost need to be a chemist sometimes, because palm oil can masquerade as palm stearine or sodium lauryl lactylate, or any number of other forms and names. Often, you’re just plain tricked since some manufacturers simply call it “vegetable oil.”

Thankfully, you can find a downloadable wallet card with all of palm oil’s pseudonyms at Orangutan

Foundation International, a terrific organization founded by Simon Fraser University’s professor Birute Galdikas to help our rapidly diminishing orangutan populations, which are hugely threatened by palm oil production. You can also sign Sum of Us’s petition urging Pepsi, one of the world’s largest food and beverage corporations, to drop its partner, Indofoods, which has been kicked out of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil. Then I have my 40/40 proposition: Since some estimates put palm oil at about 40 per cent of all vegetable oils produced and we Canucks have just given up 40 per cent of our canola exports to China, make canola your oil of choice at least 40 per cent of the time.

A lot of people don’t trust canola oil because of all the sprays used on it, especially glyphosate or Roundup, but you can easily get around that by buying organic. Unlike palm oil, which I’ve never seen as certified organic, (some sustainable certification, yes, but nothing organic) beautiful, organic Canadian canola oil can easily be found and nary an orangutan will die producing it.

At Whistler, you can buy organic canola oil at your friendly neighbourhood Nesters Market, the IGA at Marketplace and Olive’s Community Market in Function Junction.

In the big-box leagues, Loblaws sells a good organic canola oil under its own President’s Choice brand at its outlets such as Superstore.

Glenda Bartosh is an award-winning journalist who always finds oily things a dilemma. You can reach her at gbartosh@telus.net. n

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Underground sensation BReD opens brick-andmortar shop in Creekside PLANT-BASED BAKERY A LABOUR OF LOVE FOR HUSBAND-AND-WIFE ED AND NATASHA TATTON

BY BRANDON BARRETT CRAWLING UP Ed Tatton’s forearm is a tattoo that, at first glance, is hard to decipher.

But look a little closer and you realize it’s not like many pieces of ink out there.

“It’s (a tattoo of) rye, oat, spelt and red fife, which is Canada’s first wheat variety,” Ed explains. “I’m a wheat geek.”

Ed now has another outlet for his geekdom in the form of his very own bakery, BReD, which he opened with his wife Natasha in Creekside last week. The brick-and-mortar space is the culmination of nearly two years of work for the couple, and grew from a weekly bread program run out of the back of Alta Bistro that became an underground local sensation.

When Ed started at the modern French bistro several years ago, bread was brought in from bakeries in the area. But with Alta Bistro’s commitment to using local, organic ingredients, Ed decided to bake his own naturally leavened sourdough. The loaves became such a hit that Ed started selling them out of the restaurant’s kitchen once a week to customers that ordered in advance.

“I did that for almost two years at Alta.

It was great, and they were so good to me,” Ed says. “Then, basically, I outgrew the equipment. I was doing eight batches in this small mixer and my hours were becoming longer and then I had to do my shift afterwards. It was a long, long day.”

At some point, the idea struck the Tattons that maybe it was time to set off on their own.

They began to research what it would take to start their own shop, wrote “a crappy” business plan, as Ed puts it, and sold their home in the U.K. to help finance the business.

On Friday, March 22, they officially opened to a wave of support—and lines winding around the block—at 206-2067 Lake Placid Road.

“It means everything to me. I get emotional,” Ed says, eyes welling up. “I’ve been in kitchens for 20 years, so to do this with my wife is amazing.”

BORN AND BREAD Ed and Natasha Tatton want to get back to the basics of breadmaking at their new plant-based bakery in Creekside, which opened last week.

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The six-seat bakery will be focused primarily on the takeout crowd, with a small menu made up of Ed’s renowned loaves—he says the shop will likely offer country sourdough, sesame, oat porridge, poppyseed and multi-seed loaves, along with special seasonal loaves—a handful of flour-free treats as well as other small baked goods, such as baguettes, cookies, and cinnamon buns.

“We’re just trying to bring bread back to what it was in the traditional way,” Ed says.

In addition to containing no yeast or preservatives, BReD’s line of products are entirely plant-based. Both vegans themselves, Ed and Natasha say it was important that their shop reflected their ethos.

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explains Natasha, who is taking care of administrative duties.

In an era when it’s become trendy for restaurants to pay lip service to sustainability, the Tattons are actually walking the walk.

The level of consideration they have put into every single element of the shop is remarkable. Everything from the ovens to the coffee beans, which are sourced from “beyond fair trade” roaster Detour and come in completely compostable packaging, to the Canadian maple wood used in the interior, has been selected with ethics in mind.

“Every choice we make is thought out to the best of our ability,” says Natasha.

“We’re not putting style over substance. We want the substance to be what’s important.”

Also responsible for the front of house, Natasha says the coffee will reflect their commitment to craft as well.

“When people think of good baristas, what

I’ve found ... is that there’s a lot of emphasis on latte art. We’re more concerned with getting the shot of the espresso coming out of the machine correctly,” she says. “It’s nice to have a picture on top of your latte, but ultimately you want a coffee that hits the spot.”

In the end, the Tattons’ main goal is to foster a sense of connection that will see customers returning to the shop time and again.

“We want people we see two or three times a week to come in, have a good rapport with us, and be part of the community,” Ed says. “We already feel like this is definitely our home and we want to stay here for a long time.”

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Don’t Dress for Dinner is a high-octane farce that devolves into pure chaos BETWEEN SHIFTS THEATRE’S LATEST PRODUCTION HITS THE STAGE APRIL 4 TO 6, AND 10 TO 13

BY BRANDON BARRETT IN A NUTSHELL, Between Shifts Theatre’s (BST) latest production, the zany, lightning-paced farce Don’t Dress for Dinner, can be summed up quite neatly: Everybody gets screwed.

At least that’s how Whistler actress Tara Bowland, who plays Jacqueline, describes the winding plot, an English adaptation of famed French playwright Marc Camoletti’s 1985 two-act, Pyjama Pour Six. “It’s very French-minded; everyone is screwing everyone. Maybe I shouldn’t say ‘screwing,’ but that’s kind of what’s happening,” Bowland says.

The latest play from Squamish’s awardwinning theatre company, Don’t Dress for Dinner is a lighthearted sequel to Boeing Boeing, which drew sold-out crowds when it played the Eagle Eye Community Theatre back in 2015. (You don’t need to have seen the original to follow the plot.)

The story follows playboy Bernard

GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER? L to R: Michael Hewitt, Tara Bowland, Maclean Falkins and Sara Marrocco star in Between Shifts Theatre’s production of Don’t Dress for Dinner, playing in Squamish next month.

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(Maclean Falkins), as he arranges a romantic weekend with his sophisticate mistress, Suzanne (Sara Marrocco), while his wife Jacqueline is out of town. He has arranged for a Cordon Bleu chef, Suzette (Jessica Kelly), to prepare a gourmet meal, and invited his best friend Robert (Michael K. Hewitt), to tag along—and to provide an airtight alibi, should the need arise.

straight—all to hilarious effect.

“It’s a farce. It’s panic-driven. Nobody really ever tells the truth, put it that way,” explains director Janice Carroll.

The shifting identities and motivations of the main characters presented both an opportunity and a challenge to the cast, who also had to contend with the play’s frenetic pacing.

“You know how in real life or a (drama), there’s an opportunity to reflect? There’s no opportunity to reflect here. The idea is the audience gets caught right up in the sheer ridiculousness of the situation.”

- JANICE CARROLL

Only thing is, Robert and Jacqueline are having a secret affair of their own and, determined to stick around for the weekend, Jacqueline decides to forego her planned getaway to the countryside.

Sharing a similar name with Suzanne, the chef is subsequently mistaken for Bernard’s mistress, adding more confusion to the proceedings. Alibis are mixed up, the lies begin to pile up, and the chaos only deepens as the characters try to keep their stories

“The way the dialogue is written, it’s very fast and snappy, as most farces are, but it’s also the ability to snap between panic and playing it suave, keeping it cool and collected, and then three seconds later, it goes back to, ‘Oh-my-god!’ panic mode,” says Hewitt. “So being able to track all that throughout the show is certainly a challenge, but it’s also a lot of fun. It gives you a freedom to play.”

Hewitt, who directed Boeing Boeing four years ago, moved from the director’s

chair to the stage at the 11th hour after the role of Robert had yet to be cast, tapping his longtime friend, Carroll, to take over for him.

“It’s been exciting for me to dust off the ole’ acting shoes and get back onstage,” he says, adding that playing the role of Robert has been “a lot more work” than directing.

“There are so many words to memorize, and the blocking and everything, whereas in the director’s seat, you get to have fun with your actors and explore different things,” he explains.

While there are some socio-economic themes underlying the play, Carroll, who co-directed The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble for BST alongside Hewitt last year, tells audiences not to expect the same opportunities for contemplation that more traditional forms of theatre offer.

“You know how in real life or a (drama), there’s an opportunity to reflect? There’s no opportunity to reflect here. The idea is the audience gets caught right up in the sheer ridiculousness of the situation,” she explains.

“I think what we can do as an audience is sit back, reflect and watch with a certain amount of our own feeling smug, thinking, ‘Yep, I would never do that.’”

Don’t Dress for Dinner plays in Squamish at the Eagle Eye Community Theatre from April 4 to 6, and 10 to 13, at 8 p.m. Tickets at betweenshifts.tickit.ca. n

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BY ALYSSA NOEL MO DOUGLAS was speaking at a Whistler Chamber of Commerce event in February when she casually mentioned that the Anonymous Art Show would be returning for a second year.

“These members of the business community just roared,” Douglas, executive director of Arts Whistler, recalls. “The buzz coming into this year was fabulous.”

Last year, Arts Whistler hosted the unusual event—with an idea borrowed from other arts councils—for the first time as its main fundraiser for the year. Upon first glance, the execution might seem complicated, but it unfolded as planned, Douglas says.

“The cool thing about this show is it’s really fun to watch people buy art solely on aesthetic,” she adds.

This year, more than 200 artists and community members anonymously submitted around 370 pieces of art, all on the same 20-centimetre by 20-centimetre canvases. Participants include established local artists such as Lisa Geddes, Anastasia Chomlack, Levi Nelson, and Andrea Mueller as well as “surprise artists” such as Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton, CAO Mike Furey, author Stella Harvey and even Douglas herself.

“I painted two pieces last year and I haven’t painted since I was a child. My joke was if they were horrible I was going to put (Pemberton painter) Vanessa Stark’s name on them,” she says with a laugh. “The lesson was I can learn to do this and do it better and it’s not as scary as I thought.”

Those interested in purchasing art have to decide in advance just how much they want their painting of choice. Already a $250 tier of 10 spots to choose art first has sold out, but there are 50 spots available

for $150, 50 spots for $100, and 100 spots at $50. Buyers will get to choose their pieces in waves based on the amount they paid.

Once they make their pick, they’ll find out who created their piece.

“You can’t waste time,” Douglas says.

“You have to come prepared. People need to have 10 to 20 choices ready.”

To that end, a digital gallery is up online now. There will also be a sneak peek party on April 2 from 7 to 10 p.m. ahead of the main event on April 5.

“We’ve seen an increase in threedimensional pieces (submitted this year),” Douglas adds. “They’re wild.

We’ve also seen an increase in beautiful photography. We’re grateful to Cutting Edge (Signs). If (artists) went down with their canvas and a photographic piece, they’d screen it for them at a discount for the Anonymous Art Show.”

Arts Whistler also hosted workshops for participants to learn a few tips and gain confidence when creating their submissions. “We’re pretty excited about this show because it represents so much of what we strive to do—get the community excited about art, invest in art and ultimately make art,” Douglas says. “The anonymity creates a level playing field that takes the fear away.”

Last year, the event raised $16,000 for the organization. They’re hoping to raise the same amount to put towards revamped community programs.

“This is really our one major fundraiser where (fundraising) is our entire purpose,” she says. “This helps cover things that need more subsidy or might not happen otherwise.”

Entry to the Anonymous Art Show at the Maury Young Arts Centre is $20. For more information or to purchase tickets and secure your purchasing tier, visit artswhistler.com/anonymous-art-show. n

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Dumbo and Moondog WELL, NOT EVERYONE LOVED The Dirt, the new Netflix Mötley Crüe biopic. I get it, it’s hard to match one of the greatest rock ‘n roll books ever written, but the main complaint I heard went something like this: “Um, yeah. That movie was super shallow,

BY FEET BANKS kind of stupid, poorly acted, and there was barely any good music in it.”

Um yeah, that’s also a perfect description of Mötley Crüe. Were you expecting The Godfather from a movie that starts off with a character named Bullwinkle publicly squirting at a Sunset Strip after-party? The Dirt is not high art, (and yes, the actor that played Tommy Lee, rapper Machine Gun Kelly, had the goofy antics, but wasn’t handsome enough), but were any real fans of the band actually that disappointed?

CIRCUS FAMILY Circus owner Max Medici (Danny

DeVito) and performer Rongo the Strongo (Deobia Oparai) welcome a newborn elephant with oversized ears to their tight-knit family in the Dumbo remake. ©2018 DISNEY ENTERPRISES, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

Led by abandoned and angry Nikki Sixx, Mötley Crüe was pushback against societal norms of family, masculinity and good taste, but nuance was never their strong point. They had six or seven iconic songs, but beyond that, it’s all pretty basic stuff: rebellious cock rock for the decade of excess.

Certainly, the movie skimmed over some of the pain, degradation, and domestic abuse that comes with a lifetime of bad decisions,

Luckily, (Tim) Burton has not lost his unique and beautiful visual style...

but for dumb fun and attitude. Rock ‘n roll is a hard art form and energy to translate visually at the best of times. I think The Dirt does what it needs to do.

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Now remade as a live-action (plus CGI) film directed by visionary Tim Burton, this Dumbo doesn’t soar to quite such great heights.

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Luckily, Burton has not lost his unique and beautiful visual style, and Dumbo is probably his best film in years—kids will be hooked.

Give him credit for attempting to do something new with a (simple and short) classic story, but it also feels kind of unnecessary (Disney remake fatigue is a real thing with live-action Aladdin and The Lion King remakes slated for later this year) and handcuffed by trying to add too many new elements. In the end, Dumbo is more of a bummer than a tear-jerker, and that is a huge difference.

Conversly, The Beach Bum, which is also opening this week, doesn’t seem too concerned with doing much of anything at all.

Matthew McConaughey stars as Moondog, a rebellious, aimless, self-indulgent poet/ proxy for writer-director Harmony Korine (Spring Breakers, Kids) who drifts through the Florida Keys in a perpetual state of high, drunken, philosophical rambling that lacks direction or consequence. And that is the whole point—where other directors make a mood board to try and sell the idea of their movie, Korine just makes that the movie.

And it works this time, thanks mostly to McConaughey, but with solid support from Isla Fisher, Snoop Dogg, Zac Efron and Jonah Hill.

Sure, The Beach Bum is a Lebowski knock-off with two Instagram filters chucked on it, but who doesn’t want that?

Not all art has to be great, sometimes it just has to be art (see also: Mötley Crüe). n

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BY BRANDON BARRETT ONLY DAYS AWAY from Whistler’s signature annual event, the World Ski and Snowboard Festival (WSSF), organizers have unveiled the full musical lineup.

Headlining the festivities this year is frequent Whistler performer and activist, Michael Franti, who will hit the Skier’s Plaza stage for a free concert alongside his longtime band, Spearhead, on Wednesday, April 10 at 4 p.m.

While in Whistler, Franti will also host a pre-festival screening of his new documentary, Stay Human, which profiles people doing extraordinary things that inspire Franti to overcome his cynicism in today’s challenging times. The April 9 screening at the Whistler Conference Centre will be followed by a Q-and-A and intimate acoustic performance

by Franti himself. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. for the 8 p.m. screening. Tickets are $30, available at wssf.com and michaelfranti.com.

“My new film Stay Human takes us on a journey through music and stories of some of the most inspiring individuals on the planet. Amazing people that I’ve met on my travels around the globe, who have chosen to overcome cynicism with optimism, hope, tenacity, music, and love—and remind us all what it means to STAY HUMAN,” Franti is quoted as saying in a WSSF release.

Also performing on the WSSF’s “Slope Side Stage” at Skier’s Plaza are Junonominated Haisla rappers the Snotty Nose Rez Kids, who blend trap beats with thought-provoking lyrics that aim to challenge Indigenous stereotypes. They hit the stage at 3 p.m. on April 10.

The following day, East Vancouver’s own Old Soul Rebel, a rock and soul duo that were recent contestants on CTV’s hit music competition, The Launch, play Skier’s Plaza at 3 p.m.

They will be followed, at 4 p.m., by another Vancouver band, Little Destroyer, an energetic three-piece who will bring their “heavy electronic, dissonant grunge-pop anthems” to the stage, according to the release.

On April 12 at 3 p.m., Nova Scotian producer and turntablist extraordinaire

Skratch Bastid, a three-time winner of the renowned Scribble Jam DJ Battle, will hit the ones and twos to delight crowds with his distinctive mash-up style.

On April 13, also at 3 p.m., WSSF will welcome a name that should be familiar to Whistlerites, official Monster Energy DJ Mat the Alien, a staple of the resort’s club scene—when he’s not off touring the globe or holding down a club night in Las Vegas.

Closing the festival in style on April 14 at 3 p.m. will be MarchFourth, a 20-person “marching-band extravaganza” that is “more like going to see the circus than a concert,” according to WSSF. All the Skier’s Plaza concerts are free to attend.

This is the second year of a shortened WSSF since longtime event producer Watermark Communications relinquished the reins to Whistler Blackcomb and in-house producer, Crankworx Events Inc. This year also marks the return of a musical mainstage after organizers in 2018 decided to spread the live acts to various festival venues, as well as at two big-air events in Skier’s Plaza.

For more info, visit wssf.com.

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MINDING THE GAP SCREENING RAISES $2,800 FOR ZERO CEILING A screening of the Oscar-nominated documentary, Minding the Gap, has raised hundreds of dollars for a beloved local charity.

Shot over five years, Minding the Gap follows a group of friends united by their love of skateboarding as they navigate the pitfalls of growing up in a destitute Rustbelt town and try to escape their volatile family lives.

The one-off screening, sponsored by lifestyle brand WHISLIFE, ended up raising $2,800 for local charity Zero Ceiling, which supports young people at risk of homelessness by providing them with employment and accommodation for a year in Whistler. Some of the program’s participants addressed the Rainbow Theatre crowd following the film to highlight how the charity has changed their lives.

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Whistler’s history of singing

BY HOLLY PETERSON FOR THIS WEEK’S “Museum Musings,” I decided to write about something that has always defined Whistler for me. No, not skiing, but choir!

I first came to Whistler with my highschool choir for the 2010 Whistler Music Festival, and returned again in 2013. I joined the Whistler Singers last September, and we received a donation of concert programs, membership lists, and song listings from a choir member several months later. With all this in mind, I set to work scouring the archives for anything that could help construct a history of choirs in Whistler.

The earliest reference found was a photograph of the Myrtle Philip School Choir in the Dec. 20, 1978 edition of The Whistler Question. As the school had only opened the previous year, this shows that musical education was available from the very beginning.

Another Question photo, dating from 1979, shows a group of young vocalists referred to as the “Community Club Christmas Carol singers.” Various B.C. choirs gave performances in Whistler in the 1980s, including the Squamish Youth Chorale, a Vancouver acapella group Vox Humana, and the Kildala choir from Kitimat.

Whistler’s first adult choir—the Whistler Singers—began in 1982 with just nine people. It may have started small, but the members’ shared passion for music would carry them on to become Whistler’s longest-running community arts group.

Welcoming “anyone aged 13 to 113,” it regularly performed at Remembrance Day and Christmas Eve carol services, and performed a spring concert.

In April 2003, the Whistler Singers— now 45 strong—released its debut CD, Ascend. The album included Canadian classics, folk anthems, traditional scores, and songs in Hungarian, Welsh, Japanese, Korean, and Swahili. Juno-award-winning sound engineer Don Harder lent a hand with the recording, and local photographer Leanna Rathkelly designed the album’s

cover. This milestone was celebrated by a release party at Millennium Place (now the Maury Young Arts Centre).

The Whistler Children’s Chorus is another time-honoured staple of the Whistler musical scene. This group began in 1991 when a Vancouver orchestra performing Noye’s Fludde, an operatic version of Noah’s Ark, sought a children’s choir to sing with them. Whistler Singers director Molly Boyd rose to the occasion and assembled a group of youngsters aged six and up. The following year, it became formally known as the Whistler Children’s Chorus. In addition to regular yearly concerts, the Chorus has performed in Ottawa for the 2002 Canada Day, and at events leading up to and including the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Another children’s choir, the Moving Chords Youth Showchoir, was also active in Whistler in the 1990s. Information about this group has proved hard to find, but it performed at Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Church in summer 1998 and 1999. A thank-you card from the choir directors to their sponsor, the

Welcoming “anyone aged 13 to 113 ... ”

Whistler Community Arts Council, can be found in the museum’s collection.

Since the turn of the millennium, Whistler has drawn in musical talent from around the world. Choirs and small vocal ensembles from outside Canada that performed here in the early 2000s included the Cwmbach and Dunvant Male Choirs from Wales, the Dursley Male Voice Choir from Gloucestershire, the British quartet Cantabile, and Huun Huur-Tu, throat singers from the state of Tuva in Siberia.

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The irrepressible positivity of Jah Cutta, ‘Canada’s King of Reggae’ CANADIAN REGGAE ICON PLAYS THE GLC ON APRIL 4

BY BRANDON BARRETT AFTER SIX ALBUMS, dozens of singles, and 40 years in the music business, you’d think the man known as “Canada’s King of Reggae” would be ready to hang up the crown.

But quitting isn’t exactly Jah Cutta’s MO. “I can’t give up on my dream. I can’t give up on what nature gave me. I can’t give up on my blessing,” says the affable Cutta in his thick Jamaican patois.

Now based in Montreal, the Jamaican native, born Carlton Williams, has earned his royal moniker as a trusted voice in the insular national reggae scene, but it might be more apt to describe him as the happiest man in Canadian showbiz. He exudes an infectious positivity that bleeds into every element of his sound, a blend of dancehall and nu-roots sung in his distinctive singjay style.

“Jah Cutta is a artist who tink music should serve its purpose,” Williams says.

“My purpose is to uplift the spirit of people and to bring awareness to anyone dem dat is down in life and to make dem happy and lift dem up with positive words.”

Williams has had plenty of reason for his optimism to wane, however. In middle age, he is still living the relatively thankless life of a Canadian touring

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musician, cramming into crowded vans to make long treks to the next gig, which may or may not pay him and his band enough to cover their hotel and food for the night. He says he has nearly died on the road three separate times over the years, including the time his tour van crashed on an icy patch of Saskatchewan highway, launching him from the vehicle. He has sung of the violence wreaking his native Kingston, Jamaica, but it was a tragedy that

more love, more togetherness, more peace, more joy. Forget about violence; we have too much love to show.”

Even with all of his accomplishments— Jah Cutta is a mainstay of the Canadian Reggae Music Awards and has shared the stage with such luminaries of the genre as Peter Tosh, The Wailers and Gregory Isaacs—Williams is still seeking his own version of success that has thus far eluded him. It’s not exactly fame and fortune he

“My purpose is to uplift the spirit of people and to bring awareness to anyone dem dat is down in life and to make dem happy and lift dem up with positive words.”

- CARLTON WILLIAMS

hit closer to home that risked darkening Jah Cutta’s output. Last summer, Williams’ 29-year-old son, Carlton Jr., was stabbed to death in a robbery in Downtown Montreal.

But rather than give in to the anger and frustration over his son’s untimely end, Williams leaned in the other direction.

“It doesn’t change anything. It only makes me more stronger and to write with more love and more awareness to stay away from violence,” Williams reflects. “There are all these mishaps in life. There are all these accidents. There are all these cruelties, all these things that happen, and it only makes me, as an artist, sing about

is after—although he wouldn’t say no to either of those things—but an acceptance from the people he loves most, and, you get the sense, from himself, that all the years of hard work have been worth it.

“Well, my life would be much better because I’d be able to reach more people and able to help my daughter and my son,” he explains when asked what success would look like for him. “You’d finally be reaping something from what you’ve been putting out all these years and not getting nutting back from it. You’re gone for months, and when you come back, you barely have money to pay da bills dat is on our fridge,

and you’re still going at it. Finally, my kids would say, ‘Dad, you have someting to show from what you been doing for 40 years.’”

Until that day, Jah Cutta will keep doing what he’s always done: working tirelessly to bring the music to the people, whether it’s a sold-out festival in his beloved Montreal, or a music-starved coffee shop on Vancouver Island.

A man with many stories, Williams shares the time he met a café owner on the ferry to Vancouver. When he learned Williams and his bandmates were accomplished musicians, he invited them to play the coffee shop the following week.

“Next week? We’re available right now!” Williams exclaimed. The band quickly jumped off the ferry before it had left the terminal and made the trek to Nanaimo, where they played a week of sold-out shows to an appreciative, and sometimes raucous, crowd.

“There were so much people at this place, the owner couldn’t control dem. Even da police came and enjoyed demselves. We caused a ruckus,” Williams remembers.

“Tings like day make you wanna continue going. Tings like dat make you keep on working. Tings like dat tell you there is better to come.”

Jah Cutta hits the GLC stage on Thursday, April 4. Doors are at 10 p.m. Tickets are $10, and available at showpass.com/jahcutta.

Williams said he is also looking for local venues to play on April 5 and 6. If anyone is interested in hosting the band on those days, contact Williams at jahcutta.com. n

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Monday through Saturday and 2 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Sunday. The licensee has applied to the Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch to permanently change the hours to 2 p.m. to 2 a.m.

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MAKING MUSIC Christine Sherrington, a.k.a. Small Town Runaway, is making the move to Nashville this spring.

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Small Town Runaway chases the big time CHRISTINE SHERRINGTON BIDS FAREWELL TO WHISTLER—AND CELEBRATES NEW EP—WITH A PARTY AT MERLIN’S ON APRIL 7

BY ALYSSA NOEL IN CHRISTINE Sherrington’s experience, it can be hard to leave Whistler.

But that’s only partly due to bidding farewell to the mountains, lakes and endless outdoor activities.

“I went to university and left (Whistler) for a couple of years,” she says. “When I got back people were like, ‘Oh, I haven’t seen you for a while.’ I was like, ‘That’s because I was gone for two years!’”

This time, however, her exit won’t be quite as quiet.

Sherrington, who performs as Small Town Runaway, has secured an artist visa and is making a long-planned move to Nashville to pursue her musical dreams. But first, she’s celebrating both the move and the release of her new EP called Sideroads at Merlin’s on Sunday, April 7.

“I recorded it in Nashville last year,” she says. “The album is country, but more on the rock side … I love the songs we did.

They’re songs that I wrote and they all have that band sound.”

The party will also include sets from Austin Ross of Steep Creek and Jay Greenway from Marble Canyon. Joni Toews will close out the evening as his country alter ego, DJ Joni Cash. A few local businesses like Canadian Wilderness Adventures and Evolution Whistler have also offered giveaways.

The ticket price, meanwhile, will also include a free download of the new EP. “I love it here and there are so many amazing, crazy talented and inspiring people here,” Sherrington says. “I think part of the reason why I’m not worried about leaving is you meet so many people here who are unapologetically chasing their dreams. When I tell people I’m moving to Nashville for music, the general reaction is people are excited for me. No one frames it as being scary.”

After making several trips to Music City over the years, she has established contacts and a group of friends, which will also help her transition. “I have a decent network of songwriters down there now because I’ve been going back and forth,” she says. “It’s exciting that I can go and actually build on all those relationships.”

While she already gigs already booked, Sherrington is also hoping to dig deeper into the world of songwriting. “It’s like sending yourself to songwriting school.

“I have a decent network of songwriters down there now because I’ve been going back and forth,” - CHRISTINE SHERRINGTON

You go in and challenge yourself to write with all these really amazing songwriters— and, ideally, I’ll get more material for myself—but it’d be awesome to pitch some songs to other artists and grow from there,” she says.

In the meantime, she’s feeling secure with her decision to focus on music.

“There are things I’m totally going to miss about Whistler, but at the same time, you know if you’ve been here long enough that you can come back and it’ll be the exact same,” Sherrington says. “I love it here, but the bubble can be Never Never Land. I’ve been Peter Pan for long enough.”

The Sideroads album launch party takes place on Sunday, April 7 at 8 p.m. at Merlin’s.

Tickets are $10 in advance at https://www. eventbrite.ca/e/small-town-runaway-livealbum-launch-tickets-58945580819 or $15 at the door.

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Your name(s) and residence address (or business address if applicable) must be included.

Please note that your comments may be made available to the applicant and local government officials as required to administer the licence process.

Notice of Load Restrictions Howe Sound Service Area

Pursuant to Section 66 of the Transportation Act, and to provisions of the Commercial Transport Act, load restrictions have been placed on roads within the Howe Sound Service Area, effective March 18, 2019, until further notice.

All provincial highways and roads, paved or gravel, are at 100 per cent legal axle loading, except the following roads, which are limited to 70 per cent legal axle loading: • Squamish Valley Road (#649R and 1914) from Paradise Valley Road (km 3.7) to the Forest Service Road (km 22.7, end of the public road).

• Pemberton Portage Road from the junction of Highway 99 and Pemberton Portage Road to D’Arcy.

• Owl Ridge Road from Pemberton Portage Road to the end of the public road.

• Pemberton Meadows Road from Highway 99 to the Forest Service Road (end of the public road).

Overweight permits will not be granted, and all term overload permits are invalid for those roads which are restricted to 100 per cent or less of legal axle loading.

Trucking and transportation companies, as well as the general public, should govern themselves accordingly. Your cooperation in adhering to the above regulations is appreciated.

Issued by Elena Farmer, District Manager, Lower Mainland District.

For more information, please contact Area Manager Anna Kosmala at 604 527-2240 or visit the Load Restrictions section of www.DriveBC.ca

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PARENT INFANT DROP-IN

An opportunity to develop a supportive social network with other parents of young babies. Speakers and a public health nurse are often in attendance. Free. > 11 am-12:30 pm > Whistler Public Library

WALK AND TALK SERIES

Docents will provide visitors with an introduction to the Audain Art Museum and its permanent collection.

Visitors will be encouraged to explore the galleries afterwards. These drop-in tours are free with the purchase of admission or museum membership.

604-962-0413. > 3 pm > Audain Art Museum

ROTARY CLUB OF WHISTLER MILLENNIUM

Join the Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium to learn about what the club is doing to support your local community and international projects. Lunch is available for $20. Everyone welcome. > 12:15 pm > Pan Pacific Mountain Side

STITCHES IN THE STACKS

Calling all knitters! Head to the library on Thursdays in March for Stitches in the Stacks, a brand-new knitting group. This group is free to attend, but you’ll need to bring your own supplies. Curl up by the fire and make something beautiful together. (Crochet lovers, you’re welcome, too!) > 7-8 pm > Whistler Public Library

DUPLICATE BRIDGE CLUB

The club meets every week and visitors are welcome.

For a partner, please call Gill at 604-932-5791. > 1-5 pm > Whistler Racquet Club

COMMUNITY

BNI MOUNTAIN HIGH

BNI provides a positive and structured environment for the development and exchange of quality business referrals. It does so by helping you build personal relationships with dozens of other qualified business professionals. Register by emailing David Livesey at david_livesey@cooperators.ca. $20. > 6:45-8:30 am > The Venue

This program helps prepare people for their citizenship test. Learn: vocabulary to help study the guide information; how to read and answer multiple choice questions; where and how to access further study resources; about Canadian government and political structures. Welcome Centre staff will be there to answer questions and will provide ongoing support. Registration for the March Citizenship Test Preparation program is now open. For more details, see welcomewhistler.com/are-you-preparing-for-thecitizenship-test. > 6-8 pm > Whistler Public Library

WHISTLER FAMILY SUPPORT GROUP

The Whistler monthly support group is organized by the North Shore Schizophrenia Society for family and friends of those with a mental-health challenge.

Receive support from others who have been there. No registration is required. > 6:30 pm > Whistler Secondary School

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COAST MOUNTAIN THURSDAYS!

Venture on out to Function Junction for the most sophisticated après of the week! Funk, soul, jazz, blues, rare groove, disco and other rare beats curated by Stache, paired with the best beer and service in Whistler! Free. > 3:30-7:30 pm > Coast Mountain Brewing

ADAM ROBERT THOMAS

Vancouver-based singer, guitarist and bassist Adam Thomas, makes music that is a blend of jazz, soul, R&B, indie, folk, blues, and pop. > 3:30-5:30 & 8-11 pm > Mallard Lounge

THE WHISKEY RICHARDS

The Whiskey Richards are a group of Celtic Gypsy punk rockers who have spent the better part of a decade carving a reputation for themselves that can be best described as: “One Hell of a Good Time.” > 4 & 9 pm > Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub

MATTHEW HOLLAND COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER TAX CLINICS

Need a hand to prepare your tax return? Eligible individuals can sign up for our volunteer-lead tax clinics!

The tax clinics require registration. Call 604-932-0113 to confirm your eligibility and to register. Or find out more at canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/tax/individuals/ community-volunteer-income-tax-program/need-a-handcomplete-your-tax-return.html. > 2:30-4:30 pm > Whistler Public Library

WOMEN’S KARMA YOGA

Drop-in for weekly yoga classes led by an all-female team of certified, 200-hour yoga instructors. Includes mat use and childminding. All women, all ability levels welcome. This program is made possible by yoga instructors and childminders donating their time.

Contact us to join the team. Free. 604-962-8711. > 9:30-10:30 am > Whistler Women’s Centre

CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP TEST PREPARATION PROGRAM

WHISTLER’S WORLD CUPS: FROM FIASCO TO FIESTA

One of Whistler’s first World Cups was set to be held on Whistler Mountain in 1979, and in the past four decades Whistler has gone on to host many high-profile events, including Rob Boyd’s win in 1989. This talk will explore what went into putting on these races, what it was like to experience the multi-day events and how one run became a celebrated moment in our town’s history, with guests including Rob Boyd and Alex Kleinman. Doors at 6:30pm. Cash bar. $10; $5 for museum and Club Shred members. > 7 pm > Whistler Museum

ACTIVATE AND CONNECT FOR SENIORS 50+

Connect with friends, new and old, through weekly activities. Meet at Whistler Community Services Society.

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AFTERNOON DELIGHT

Hansomish and Pauly Deep take you on a magical journey on their disco party train! > 5-8 pm > Pangea Pod Hotel

THE HAIRFARMERS

Voted Whistler’s best band every year since 2001, The Hairfarmers combine uncanny vocals with innovative

LUNA PRESENTS THURSDAY NIGHT YOGA

Come shake your shanti in a 90-minute Hatha Flow yoga class. Get in the flow with an emphasis on breathing and movement. Eighteen-to-35-year-olds only, free positive vibes for all in attendance! $3 for non-members, free for Luna members. > 5:30-7 pm > Maury Young Arts Centre

Matthew Holland is an up-and-coming singer-songwriter from New Brunswick who shreds his guitar like no tomorrow and sings with his unforgettable raspy vocals. > 4:30-7:30 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

COMMUNITY

MULTI-DAY EVENT

SPRING BREAK AT BRITANNIA MINE MUSEUM

MAR. 21-31

Engage the whole family with discovery this Spring Break at the Britannia Mine Museum. Explore a series of fun and educational, family-friendly activities. Activities include: a scavenger hunt, historical artefacts and activities, arts and crafts, hands-on mineral exploration and our playing our Stakeholders’ game. Activities at 12:30 and 2:30. $17.95 to $29.95. 604-896-2233. > Britannia Mine Museum

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THURSDAY LOCALS’ NIGHT

Come join our legendary locals’ night every Thursday, kicking off the night with a game of skate at 9 pm followed by DJ Praiz and friends throwing down some dope tracks. Prizes to be given away each week include concert tickets, snowboards, electric sunnies and skateboards! Email info@garfinkels.ca for guest list and VIP options. 604-932-2323. > 9 pm-2 am > Garfinkel’s

KARAOKE NIGHT

Come belt out your best covers at karaoke every Thursday night from 9 pm! > 9 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant

THURSDAY NIGHT FUNK

Featuring DJ Dakota and his one-of-a-kind funkadelic style. > 10 pm-2 am > The Keg

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guitar and percussion covering all your favourite songs.

A Whistler must-see! > 5:30-8:30 pm > Sidecut

WHISTLER YOUTH BAND

Let the trumpets sing! The Whistler Youth Band is a beginner band for youth ages 10 and up. Grab an instrument and make music with friends. > 6-7:30 pm > Myrtle Philip Community School

COCKTAIL DANCE PARTY

Start your weekend early with a handcrafted cocktail.

Then hit the dancefloor or rock our legendary dancing cage with help from DJ Peacefrog. > 7 pm > Buffalo Bills

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TOMMYS THROWBACK THURSDAYS

Throwing it back with the best of the ‘80s, ‘90s and early 2000s with DJ MC Adam. > 8 pm-2 am > Tommys Whistler

#TBT WITH THE SOUNDS OF STACHE

Stache has been on a nomadic musical adventure for almost a decade, travelling to over 50 countries and sharing his passion for music with others. Drawing influences from all four corners of the globe, his appetite, understanding and energetic delivery will guarantee a funky smorgasbord of beats. Free. > 9 pm-1 am > Three Below

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WHISTLER MUSEUM

Learn more about Whistler’s culture and history. Now open by donation. > Daily 11am-5pm, Thu until 9pm > Whistler Museum

THE CULTURAL CONNECTOR: A JOURNEY OF ADVENTURE AND DISCOVERY

Grab a Cultural Connector guide and explore Whistler’s world of culture. As you follow the Cultural Connector route, you’ll discover the stories that enrich Whistler’s culture, the venues that celebrate it and the milestones that we’ve achieved along the way. The pathway will lead you through beautiful surroundings and six cultural institutions: Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre, Whistler Museum, Whistler Public Library, Maury Young Arts Centre, Lost Lake PassivHaus, and Audain Art Museum. Free. > Ongoing > Maury Young Arts Centre

COMMUNITY

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT

GAMES CAFE

SOME BUNNY LOVES YOU WITH JESSE THOM

CLUB SHRED THURSDAYS

The team at Whistler Blackcomb’s Club Shred are bringing the party back to Merlin’s Bar & Grill all season long! Rotating between Whistler local favourites Red Chair and Joni Toews (from Case Of The Mondays).

604-938-7700. > 7 pm-midnight > Merlin’s Bar & Grill

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Meet the wonderfully talented and fun Jesse Thom, a visiting author and puppeteer. Join in the fun as Jesse shares stories from his book Some Bunny Loves You. Jesse will delight you and your whole family with a playful musical puppet show. There will be bunnies! All ages welcome. No registration required. > 10:30-11:30 am > Whistler Public Library

PRESCHOOL STORY TIME

Books, songs and rhymes for preschool-aged children, accompanied by a caregiver. Registration is not required. > 10:30 am > Whistler Public Library

Come in and enjoy a massive selection of popular games. Sunday to Thursday. > 4-8 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

COMMUNITY

WELCOME CENTRE MULTICULTURAL MEET UP

Come and say, “hi” if you are new to Canada and Whistler! Everyone and every age is welcome. Casual meet up, workshops, information about living in Canada.

Check calendar at welcomewhistler.com for full details.

Contact info@welcomewhistler.com or 604-698-5960. > 9:30 am-noon > Whistler Public Library

WALK AND TALK SERIES See Thursday’s listing for more info. > 3, 5:30 & 7 pm > Audain Art Museum

SHUT UP AND PARTY

Start your weekend off one night early with music from Fidel Cashflow and DJ Shearer. Email info@maxxfish. com for VIP and other special perks. > 9 pm > Maxx Fish

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WHISTLER YOUTH CENTRE DROP-IN

For ages 13 to 18. We offer ping pong, a skateboard mini-ramp (skateboards and helmets to borrow), free Wi-Fi, Xbox One, PS3 & PS4, guitars, board games, a projector and widescreen TVs. Free. 604-935-8187. > 3:30-11 pm > Maury Young Whistler Youth Centre

SPORTS

WHISTLER TRI CLUB SWIM SQUAD

Triathlon-focused swim squads. Full details at whistlertriclub.com/training-sessions. Free to members for fall (includes entry into Meadow Park). Non-

members $8 drop-in (includes entry into Meadow Park). > 6-7:15 am > Meadow Park Sports Centre

MUSIC

Enjoy lake views while DJ Smokey sets the tone with a blend of soulful house tracks. > 5 pm > Cure Lounge at Nita Lake Lodge

THE HAIRFARMERS

Voted Whistler’s best band every year since 2001, The Hairfarmers combine uncanny vocals with innovative guitar and percussion covering all your favourite songs.

A Whistler must-see! > 3:30-7:30 pm > Merlin’s Bar & Grill

CLARA SWAN

Clara Swan is a singer-songwriter from Kelowna, now living in Whistler. She plays a mix of her own originals and pop covers. > 6-9 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

band. No cover, no lineups. > 6-9 pm > Whistler Brewing Company

LADIES’ NIGHT

We have a gift for all ladies. Enjoy a glass of champagne then hit the dance floor and dance the night away with DJ Peacefrog. Info@buffalobills.ca for guestlist or table bookings. > 7 pm > Buffalo Bills

CHAMPAGNE FRIDAY THE WHISKEY RICHARDS > 4 & 9 pm > Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub

Find the Beaver and WIN a Snowmobile Tour for TWO with Canadian Wilderness Adventures!

Blast through rolling hills of powder for a real CANADIAN big mountain adventure!

at the Pemberton Community Centre, Room D 7pm

Your support for local trails is important!

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Solo artists perform every week, except on the first Friday of every month when they swap out for a full

Kick off your weekend at Garf’s. Get on the guest list and join the party: info@garfinkels.ca. > 7:30 pm > Garfinkel’s

Treasure hunt

Wednesday, April 10th

• Annual Report for 2018 • Election of new Directors • Trail Stewardship

LIVE MUSIC

whistler’s Safe-Sexy

Annual General Meeting

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Working to create and maintain an interconnected network of Multi-use trails and greenspaces

Real treasure hunt! Beaver hidden somewhere in Whistler!

More info at “Find the Beaver” on Facebook. Must be 18-35 to play!

WHISTLER COMMUNIT Y SERVICES SOCIETY

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PIQUECAL WEEKEND GETAWAYS AT TOMMYS SINGING WITH THE BABIES Resident DJ Dre Morel at Tommys providing a breath of fresh air to Whistler’s lounge and nightclub scene. Email info@tommyswhistler.com for all reservation inquiries. > 8 pm-2 am > Tommys Whistler

Learn songs and rhymes to soothe and entertain baby while encouraging early language development. For kids up to walking age. Free. > 11-11:30 am > Whistler Public Library

FOOD + DRINK

BROTHER TWANG

Come wind down your ski day or ramp up your Saturday night festivities with the boys from Brother Twang. > 9 pm-midnight > FireRock Lounge

SUNDAY FUNDAY

Join us every Sunday in Whistler Creekside for après.

Sunday Funday complimentary canapés served from 7 to 10 p.m. Free village shuttle available. 604-966-5711. > Cure Lounge at Nita Lake Lodge

LIVE @ BLACK’S FEEL GOOD FRIDAYS

Start the weekend off right with music by B.C.’s finest party DJs mixing the best in hip hop, rap, R&B and party anthems. Whistler’s most-energetic dancefloor. > 9:30 pm > Moe Joe’s

WHISTLER YOUTH CENTRE DROP-IN

See Friday’s listing for more info. > 6-10 pm > Maury Young Whistler Youth Centre

MUSIC

FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE

Live music by Whistler favourites Red Chair. > 9:30 pm > Tapley’s Pub

FRIDAY NIGHT ALL LOVE NO CLUB Featuring DJ TyMetal. Start your weekend off right with TyMetal’s energizing vibes! > 10 pm-2 am > The Keg

THE HAIRFARMERS

Voted Whistler’s best band every year since 2001, The Hairfarmers combine uncanny vocals with innovative guitar and percussion covering all your favourite songs.

A Whistler must-see! > 3:30-6:30 pm > Dusty’s Bar and Grill

THE WHISKEY RICHARDS > 4 & 9 pm > Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub

Every Friday and Saturday, party with local and touring musicians at Black’s Pub. > 9 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant

SATURDAY NIGHT ALL LOVE NO CLUB

Featuring DJ TyMetal. Let TyMetal provide the soundtrack to your weekend. Food until midnight; latenight happy hour. > 10 pm-2 am > The Keg

SUPREME SATURDAY

DJ Nikky from Vancouver brings the Whistler’s biggest weekend party and best vibe. VIP champagne parades along with the hottest hip hop and remixes! For VIP and guest list, email info@garfinkels.ca. > 10 pm > Garfinkel’s

MUSIC

THE HAIRFARMERS

Voted Whistler’s best band every year since 2001, The Hairfarmers combine uncanny vocals with innovative guitar and percussion covering all your favourite songs.

A Whistler must-see! > 3:30-6:30 pm > Garibaldi Lift Co. (GLC)

GAMES NIGHT AT PANGEA

Challenge your crew: Cards Against Humanity, Jenga, Settlers of Catan, HedBanz, and many more. Drinks and food specials all night long. > 4 pm > Pangea Pod Hotel

THE WHISKEY RICHARDS > 4 pm > Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub

THE CURE LOUNGE SESSIONS

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See Friday’s listing for more info. > 5 pm > Cure Lounge at Nita Lake Lodge

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ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT

SMALL TOWN RUNAWAY

MADE IN WHISTLER MARKET

Local artists and artisans sell their goods at the Made in Whistler Market. Free admission. > 12-6 pm > Westin Resort & Spa

Christine Sherrington, a.k.a. Small Town Runaway, playing one of her last shows in Whistler before she heads off to Nashville. She’ll be playing a mix of her own country originals and all your favourite acoustic hits. > 6-9 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

WEEKEND GETAWAYS AT TOMMYS

WALK AND TALK SERIES

> 8 pm-2 am > Tommys Whistler

See Thursday’s listing for more info. > 1 & 3 pm > Audain Art Museum

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WALK AND TALK SERIES See Thursday’s listing for more info. > 1 & 3 pm > Audain Art Museum

OPEN MIC JAM NIGHT

An open stage invitation for all who can sing, perform or even just wanna jam out with our house band.

Whistler’s longest-running jam night every Sunday at Crystal Lounge. All instruments are provided. > 9 pm > Crystal Lounge

COMMUNITY

RED CHAIR SATURDAY NIGHT SHAKER

COMMUNITY

FAMILY TOGETHER TIME

SUN

Gather your pals and listen to some of Whistler’s best local musicians after treating yourself to our weekly homestyle Sunday roast. > 8 pm > Three Below

A parent-directed hour with board games, crafts and a story corner with felt puppets. A drop-in program for families of all ages. Free. > 3:30-4:30 pm > Whistler Public Library

With music from Fidel Cashflow and DJ C Stylez. Email info@maxxfish.com for VIP and other special perks. > 9 pm > Maxx Fish

AWARE KIDS NATURE CLUB

These free sessions educate local and visiting youth about all things environmental through fun and interactive activities. Open to all, but mainly intended for kids ages five to 11. Free. > 10-11:30 am > Whistler Public Library

LADIES’ NIGHT

It’s Whistler’s No. 1 stop for stag and stagette parties.

DJ Turtle and friends mix up everything from hip hop, R&B, new rap, dance hall and Top 40 bangers. Email guestlist@moejoes.com for VIP and group perks. > 9:30 pm > Moe Joe’s

Red Chair is a local Whistler rock band with an impressive and versatile set list. They have become a hometown favourite with their selection of bar classics, high-energy performances and great musicianship. > 9 pm > Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub

SUNDAY SESSIONS

The best locals’ party in Whistler. > 9 pm > Tapley’s Pub

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PIQUECAL SEND IT SUNDAYS

With music from T-Zen and DJ Shearer. Keep your weekend alive, and join us on Sunday nights for one of Whistler’s wildest industry nights. Email info@ maxxfish.com for VIP plus special perks. > 9 pm > Maxx Fish

described as a journey of the heart. An entire rat pack in one man, he’ll tip his glass to you with that jazzy swagger. > 3-6 pm > Pangea Pod Hotel

THE WHISKEY RICHARDS > 4 & 9 pm > Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub

SOULFUL SUNDAYS

Soul Club Whistler spinning that funky soul soundtrack. > 9 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant

is supported. For more information, please come to the library, call 604-935-8436 or email youthservice@ whistlerlibary.ca. Free. > 10:30 am > Whistler Public Library

OPEN MIC AT CRANKED

Cranked is the perfect place to play without the intimidation of being on a big stage and huge audience. > 6-9 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

MARTINI MONDAY > 7:30 pm > Buffalo Bills

MEATY MONDAY SUNDAY NIGHT THEORY

TyMetal’s unique blend of rock, funk and R&B is unmatched and will leave your ears craving more. The evolution of Sunday night is here. > 10 pm-1 am > The Keg

Sport and beer what more do you need? How about a chance to win our famous Meat Raffle? Proceeds donated to charity. > 9 pm > Tapley’s Pub

Group run for intermediate runners and above. Two distance options: approximately 5 km and 10 km. Check our Facebook page, facebook.com/groups/werunwhistler for weekly updates. #werunwhistler rain or shine … Free. > 5:55 pm > Lululemon

Come join in with this afternoon of music. Bring your instruments and come early to sign up. > 6:30 pm > Grimms Deli (Pemberton)

Come ride the ramp , or just hang out and sample the ping pong, pool, PS4 & Xbox1! Skateboards and helmets provided. $2 drop-in; Free for LUNA members. > 7-10 pm > Maury Young Whistler Youth Centre

SPORTS

The Crystal Lounge hosts trivia every Monday night!

Bring your friends and test your knowledge for a night of fun, laughs, prizes and the chance to “burn your bill.” Conditions apply. > 9 pm > Crystal Lounge

All levels are welcome to join in the Locals Night.

Clinic for beginners and casual play for intermediate and advanced players. Free racket rental, snacks and beverage included! $20. 604-932-1991. > 6:30-8:30 pm > Whistler Racquet Club

MUSIC

FVCK MONDAYS

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The wildest party in Whistler on a Monday night continues with music from Fidel Cashflow, Dan Darley, The Rogue Killers and DJ Shearer. Throwing down all the hottest tunes you know and love. Deep, tech, bass, house, trap, hip hop and more. Email info@maxxfish. com for VIP plus special perks. > 9 pm > Maxx Fish

COMMUNITY

MUSIC & WORDS

This drop-in program is for kids two to four years and it focuses on early literacy through music, rhyme, stories and movement. Free. > 10 am > Whistler Public Library

MONDAY NIGHT FEATURE DJ GAINZ

DJ Gainz has taken over Monday so come get your fix of the freshest tracks in town! > 10 pm-2 am > The Keg

WORKBC EMPLOYMENT SERVICES DROP IN

Get your resume reviewed, learn about the local labour market, job search tips, and more. All services are free. For details call 1-877-932-1611 or go to WhistlerESC.com. > 3-6 pm > Whistler Public Library

SPORTS

WHISTLER TRI CLUB SWIM SQUAD

See Friday’s listing for more info. > 6-7:15 am > Meadow Park Sports CentreMUSIC

THE WHISKEY RICHARDS > 4 & 9 pm > Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub

Daniel Hughes is an up-and-coming acoustic artist that’s quickly turning into one of Whistler’s favourites to watch. He plays a crowd pleasing mix of jazz, R&B and pop classics. > 4:30-8 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

BINGO

Channel your inner granny and dominate bingo at the locals’ living room. > 8 pm > Tapley’s Pub

TUE

4.2

ARTS + ENTERTAINMENT

ECOFLIX: A PLASTIC OCEAN

AWARE and the library present EcoFlix, our series of film screenings focused on a variety of environmental issues. This month, the film being screened is A Plastic Ocean, an adventure documentary that follows journalist Craig Leeson as he teams up with free diver Tanya Streeter and an international team of scientists and researchers, and they travel to 20 locations around the world to explore the fragile state of our oceans, uncover alarming truths about plastic pollution, and reveal working solutions that can be put into immediate effect. Free. > 7-9 pm > Whistler Public Library

Blues night with Sean Rose. > 8 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant

TOMMYS TUESDAYS

Tommys Tuesday with resident DJ Dre Morel and guests, bringing you all the best of the best every Tuesday evening! Free entry before 10:30pm with Guest List.

604-932-6090. > 8 pm-2 am > Tommys

ALLSORTS

Bringing a wide variety of sounds to your Tuesday evening, ED:WIN will be playing “AllSorts” of music to get you dancing down at Three Below every Tuesday night.

Listen to hip hop, R&B, house, garage and disco! Free. > 9 pm-1:30 am > Three Below

COMMUNITY

CELLAR SESSIONS MARVELLOUS MONDAYS WITH MONTY

Local legend Monty Biggins offers hits of the eras in an Americana Swing sound. His soulful voice has been

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RHYME & SONG

This program gives toddlers, parents and caregivers the opportunity to learn songs, rhymes and finger plays together. Movement is encouraged and your preschooler’s early language and literacy development

Drop in for this casual session, where preschool-aged children will enjoy a short story and then use different media to create a fun craft. A great opportunity for parents to connect with other parents of young children! > 10:30-11:30 am > Whistler Public Library

WALK AND TALK SERIES See Thursday’s listing for more info. > 3 pm > Audain Art Museum

QUEER WEDNESDAYS DANIEL HUGHES

BLACK ‘N’ BLUES

GAMES NIGHT

Visit the Whistler Public Library for a free evening of board games, popcorn and Oreo cookies. Sponsored by The Friends of the Library. > 7-9 pm > Whistler Public Library

“I Will Survive” won’t sing itself, so come over to Whistler’s longest-running karaoke night and belt out all your favourite hits. Arrive early to avoid disappointment. > 9 pm > Crystal Lounge

BOOK & CRAFT CLUB TRIVIA NIGHT

OPEN MIC

KARAOKE NIGHT

LUNA LOUNGE FEATURE SKATE NIGHT

TENNIS LOCALS’ NIGHT SEA TO SKY

Dakota brings his crowd pleasing hip-hop vibes to Tuesday night. Food until midnight; late-night happy hour. > 10 pm-2 am > The Keg

WE RUN WHISTLER: WEEKLY GROUP RUN

THE SUNDAY GLOW PARTY

Moe Joe’s is transformed into a psychedelic UV-infused rave cathedral, as Fidel Cashflow, Zapps and La Dooda cook up an aural feast of house and electro beats. > 9 pm > Moe Joe’s

TUESDAY NIGHT FEATURING DJ DAKOTA

With live music from Neverland Nights and guests, playing all your rock, alternative and party jams all night long. Plus DJ sets from Fidel Cashflow. > 9 pm > Maxx Fish

We reserve the prime family-style table by the Ola Volo mural for our LGBTQ2+ family. Get your game (or gay’m) on. > 5-8 pm > Pangea Pod Hotel

COMMUNITY

INTERACT CLUB OF WHISTLER

Interact is a club for young people ages 12 to 18 who want to make a difference in their community, mentored by the Rotary Club of Whistler and Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium. The club includes students from Whistler Secondary School, Waldorf, Spring Creek and Myrtle Philip who want to join together to tackle the issues in their community they care most about. > 4-5 pm > Maury Young Whistler Youth Centre

MOUNTAIN SPIRIT WHISTLER TOASTMASTERS

Build communication, public speaking, and leadership skills with Mountain Spirit Whistler Toastmasters.

Everyone welcome. > 5:30-7 pm > Pan Pacific Mountain Side

STRESS AND HOW IT MANIFESTS IN THE BODY, WITH MELISSA DEALLY

Stress causes weight gain, poor sleep, emotional eating and other health issues. Come learn how to reduce your digestive stress, the biggest needle mover for most people when it comes to reducing the impact of stress on their body. Learn how to switch on your digestive system so it operates at an optimal level, allowing your body to fully assimilate nutrients, vitamins, and minerals. Register by emailing publicservices@ whistlerpubliclibrary.ca. Registration is now open! Email publicservices@whistlerlibrary.ca to claim a spot. > 7-8:30 pm > Whistler Public Library

PIQUECAL

Whistler Transit System

Service Changes

GREEN DRINKS

Green Drinks is a global movement in over 70 countries and 537 cities worldwide. Locally it is hosted by AWARE, Whistler’s environmental charity. The group comes together on every first Wednesday of the month to discuss local or global environmental issues and concern, brainstorming ideas and promoting sustainable living. A great way to meet new likeminded people in town and have stimulating conversation. By donation. > 7-9 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant

Effective April 1, 2019 Start of the Spring-Summer-Fall service: • Seasonal service reduction on all routes • Additional Late Winter service is available from April 1 to 22, 2019 • Seasonal discontinuation of route 4 Marketplace on April 23, 2019

LET’S GET QUIZZICAL

Are you smarter than the average fifth grader? Let’s hope so as Stache brings you trivia with a Whistler twist. All the regular rounds plus our weekly degenerate round full of public and celebrity scandals. Great banter and awesome prizes! Free. > 9-10:30 pm > Three Below

SPORTS

For more information, visit bctransit.com/whistler or pick up a Rider’s Guide on board.

INDOOR PICKLEBALL

Have fun with others playing the fastest growing sport in North America! All levels welcome. Free paddle rental. $10. 604-932-1991. > 10-11:30 am > Whistler Racquet Club

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Whether you know her as DJ Foxy Moron or just Ace, you know she kills it on the vinyl. Join us as this homegirl legend spins you silly. > 4-7 pm > Pangea Pod Hotel

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RUCKUS DELUXE

Ruckus Deluxe features former Cirque Du Soleil lead singer Chad Oliver and Grammy-nominated violinist Ian Cameron playing Celtic and classics on mandolin, fiddle and electric guitar. > 4 & 9 pm > Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub

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CONOR FITZPATRICK

Once the word gets out everyone is going to want to see this guy with is incredible guitar shedding vocals. He is already one of Cranked’s favourites. On warmer sunny days, Conor will play outside on the patio. > 4:30-7:30 pm > Cranked Espresso Bar

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INDUSTRY NIGHT

Live music from Neverland Nights. > 6 pm > Buffalo Bills

We are seeking your input on the inaugural year of the route 10 Valley Express.

SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS

Shut Up and Play the Hits, bringing you and evening of indie, rock, alternative and your favourite hits! > 8pm-2 am > Tommys Whistler

You are invited to offer feedback on this route through an online survey available on bctransit.com/whistler.

JAM NIGHT

Jam Night with Kostaman and Friends every Wednesday night. > 9 pm > Black’s Pub & Restaurant

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Featuring DJ Gainz, the fastest up-and-coming DJ in town. Food until midnight; late-night happy hour. > 10 pm-2 am > The Keg

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ASTROLOGY

Free Will Astrology WEEK OF MARCH 28 BY ROB BREZSNY

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Kermit the Frog from Sesame Street is the world’s most famous puppet. He has recorded songs, starred in films and TV shows, and written an autobiography. His image has appeared on postage stamps and he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Kermit’s beginnings were humble, however. When his creator Jim Henson first assembled him, he consisted of Henson’s mom’s green coat and two halves of a white ping pong ball. I mention this, Aries, because the current astrological omens suggest that you, too, could make a puppet that will one day have great influence. APRIL FOOL! I half-lied. Here’s the whole truth: now isn’t a favourable time to start work on a magnificent puppet.

But it is a perfect moment to launch the rough beginnings of a project that’s well-suited for your unique talents.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus businessman Chuck Feeney made a huge fortune as the entrepreneur who co-developed duty-free shopping. But at age 87, he lives frugally, having given away US$8 billion to philanthropic causes. He doesn’t even own a house or car. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to follow his lead in the coming weeks. Be unreasonably generous and exorbitantly helpful. APRIL FOOL! I exaggerated a bit. While it’s true that now is an extra-favourable time to bestow blessings on everyone, you shouldn’t go overboard. Make sure your giving is artful, not careless or compulsive.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Now is a perfect time to start learning the Inuktitut language spoken by the Indigenous people of Northern Canada. Here are some key phrases to get you underway. 1. UllusiuKattagit inosek: Celebrate your life! 2. Pitsialagigavit, piggogutivagit!: Because you’re doing amazing things, I’m proud of you!

3. Nalligijauvutit: You are loved! 4. Kajusitsiatuinnagit: Keep it up! APRIL FOOL! I lied. Now isn’t really a better time than any other to learn the Inuktitut language. But it is an important time to talk to yourself using phrases like those I mentioned. You need to be extra kind and super positive toward yourself.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When he was 20 years old, Greek military leader Alexander the Great began to conquer the world. By age 30, he ruled the vast territory between Greece and northwest India. Never shy about extolling his own glory, he named 70 cities after himself. I offer his example as a model for you. Now is a favourable time to name clouds after yourself, as well as groves of trees, stretches of highway, buses, fire hydrants, parking spaces, and rocks. APRIL FOOL. I got a bit carried away.

It’s true that now is a good time to assert your authority, extend your clout, and put your unique stamp on every situation. But I don’t recommend that you name entire cities after yourself.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Now is an excellent time to join an exotic religion. How about the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, which believes that true spiritual devotion requires an appreciation of satire? Or how about Discordianism, which worships the goddess of chaos and disorder? Then there’s the United Church of Bacon, whose members exult in the flavour of their favourite food. (Here’s a list of more: tinyurl.com/WeirdReligions.)

APRIL FOOL! I wasn’t entirely truthful. It’s accurate to say that now is a great time to reinvigourate and transform your spiritual practice. But it’s better if you figure that out by yourself. There’s no need to get your ideas from a bizarre cult.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Studies show that people who love grilled-cheese sandwiches engage in more sexual escapades than those who don’t gorge on grilled-cheese sandwiches. So I advise you to eat a lot of grilled-cheese sandwiches, because then you will have more sex than usual. And that’s important, because you are now in a phase when you will reap huge healing benefits from having as much sex as possible. APRIL FOOL! I lied when I implied that eating more grilled-cheese sandwiches

would motivate you to have more sex. But I wasn’t lying when I said that you should have more sex than usual. And I wasn’t lying when I said you would reap huge benefits from having as much sex as possible. (P.S. If you don’t have a partner, have sex with your fantasies or yourself.)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you ever spend time at the McMurdo Station in Antarctica, you’ll get a chance to become a member of the 300 Club. To be eligible, you wait till the temperature outside drops to -73 degrees Celsius.

When it does, you spend 20 minutes in a sauna heated to 93 degrees. Then you exit into the snow and ice wearing nothing but white rubber boots, and run a few hundred metres to a ceremonial pole and back. In so doing, you expose your naked body to a swing of 163 degrees Celsius. According to my astrological analysis, now is an ideal time to pull off this feat. APRIL FOOL! I lied. I’m not really urging you to join this club. On the other hand, I do think it’s a favourable phase to go to extremes for an authentically good cause.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Scientific research shows that if you arrange to get bitten by thousands of mosquitoes in a relatively short time, you make yourself immune.

Forever after, mosquito bites won’t itch you. Now would be an excellent time for you to launch such a project.

APRIL FOOL! I lied. I don’t really think you should do that.

On the contrary. You should scrupulously avoid irritations and aggravations, especially little ones. Instead, immerse yourself in comfort and ease. Be as free from vexation as you have ever been!

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Resort Municipality of Whistler We are seeking Victim Service volunteers to be on-call evenings and weekends to assist in the provision of emotional support and practical assistance to persons impacted by a crime or trauma. Discretion, professionalism, confidentiality, and an empathic, supportive, non-judgemental, and empowering approach is required.

Certified Dental Assistant for busy family dental clinic

Located 20 minutes north of whistler in the beautiful pemberton valley.

Hours negotiable with competitive wage.

Email “info@pembertonvalleydental.ca” or fax to 604-894-6934

Bar Manager Assistant Restaurant/ Events Manager FREE golf, many perks/benefits Housing assistance may be possible Work with our F&B Manager and existing Assistant F&B Manager

Inquires: jgordon@golfbc.com. May (flexible) start.

In accordance with the Victims of Crime Act, we seek to lessen the impact of crime and trauma to victims and their families. We seek to increase the level of participation and sense of empowerment for our clients as they encounter the criminal justice system.

• ability to secure and maintain RCMP Security Clearance.

• must be available for a two year commitment, with training and shadowing shifts commencing upon securing RCMP Security Clearance.

• willing to be on-call for a minimum of three shifts per month, including evenings and weekends.

• access to your own vehicle for local travel.

Please direct any inquiries to: 604-905-1969.

Please submit your resume to: whistler_victimservices@rcmp-grc.gc.ca Application deadline: April 5th 2019.

Whistler Pemberton

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to join our exciting team.

Must be available to cover all Weekends & Stat Holidays The successful candidate will require the following qualities; • Good Customer Service skills • Previous office experience • Working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Publisher) and the Internet • Capable of managing tasks & making decisions without direct supervision with-in set guidelines • The ability to multi-task, take the initiative, have an eye for detail • The ability to communicate efficiently and effectively.

• Good knowledge of the Whistler area We thank all applicants however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

LINE COOKS Work at Whistler’s best location!

Refine or jump-start your culinary career in our fast-paced and busy kitchen. We offer competitive wages, tips and a season ski pass. Please stop by the pub between 10am and 5pm with a copy of your resume.

You can also submit your resume via email to careers@dubhlinngate.com.

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SPORTS & RECREATION Women's Karma Yoga - Thursdays, 9:30-10:30, ongoing by donation and childminding provided.

Whistler Women's Centre: 1519 Spring Creek Drive. Drop-in for weekly yoga classes led by an all female team of certified yoga instructors. All women, all ability levels welcome. hswc.ca | 604-9628711

YOUTH ACTIVITIES 1st Whistler Scout Group - outdoor & adventure program for girls and boys aged 5-17. Times and locations vary.

More info: http://1stwhistlerscoutgroup.webs.com.

Contact scoutsatwhistler @gmail.com or 604-966-4050.

Whistler Children's Chorus Rehearsal Tuesdays at MILLENNIUM PLACE (4 - 5:30 pm) contact whistlerchorus@gmail.com Whistler/Pemberton Girl Guides Adventures for Girls age 5 & up.

Sparks & Brownies (Gr K,1,2,3) Guides (Gr 4,5,6) Volunteers always welcome. coastmountaingirlguides@gmail.com Whistler Youth Centre - Drop - in: Fridays 3:30 - 11 PM & Saturdays 6 10 PM for ages 13 - 18. Located downstairs in the Maury Young Arts Centre (formerly Millenium Place). We offer: a Ping pong table, Pool table, Skateboard mini ramp w. skateboards and helmets to borrow, Free Wi-Fi, Xbox One, PS3 & PS4, Guitars, Board games, Projector and widescreen TV's.

Facebook THEYC Crew, www.whistleryouthcentre.com or call 604-935-8187.

PART TIME CLIENT CARE COORDINATOR

Please forward your resume to conveyance@whistlerevcanada.com

Dubh Linn Gate Irish Pub is hiring:

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SEEKING STRONG, ACTIVE, RELIABLE AND NATURE-LOVING F/T & P/T STAFF FOR OUR 21st SEASON! WORK OUTSIDE THIS SUMMER: • STARTING WAGE OF $18.00/HOUR • PERFORMANCE & END OF SEASON BONUS • POSITIVE, ENCOURAGING TEAM & LEADERS • SEASON RUNS APRIL 15 - OCTOBER 31

APPLY NOW: Send your resume and availability to carolyn@mountainberrylandscaping.ca

LEISURE GROUPS Duplicate Bridge ClubWhistler Racquet Club reconvenes in late fall.

The club meets every week and visitors are welcome. For partner, please call Gill at 640-932-5791.

Knitty Gritty Knit Night- Held every Tues 6-8pm. Free evening open to everyone with a love for knitting/crocheting.

Beginners welcome. For location and further details email knittygrittywhistler@gmail.com or find us on facebook.

Mountain Spirit Toastmasters- Builds communication, public speaking, and leadership skills . Wednesdays at the Pan Pacific Mountainside - Singing Pass Room, 5:30-7pm. Email contact 8376@toastmastersclubs.org www.whistler.toastmastersclubs.org Pemberton Women's Institute Meets the third Mon of each month in the activity room at St. David's United Church at 7:30pm. New members welcome. Linda Ronayne at 604-8946580 Rotary Club of Whistler - Meets Tuesdays at 7:15 a.m at BG Bread Garden Urban Grill 604-905-5090 Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium Meets every Thurs at 12:15pm at Pan Pacific Mountainside. 604-932-7782 Whistler Reads - Meets to discuss a new book every eight weeks. Go to bookbuffet.com & click on Whistler Reads for the latest book/event. Paula at 604-907-2804 or wr@bookbuffet.com

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COMMUNITY LISTINGS LEISURE GROUPS Shades of Grey Painters Meets twice a week Tuesdays, Watercolour, 11.00am2.30pm @ The Rec, Pemberton.

Thursdays, Acrylic, 1.00pm-3.30pm @ The Amenities Building, Pioneer Village, Pemberton. We are likeminded people that get together & paint. Gretchen is the painting coach. $5 to attend.

COMMUNITY CENTRES Maury Young Arts Centre - Whistler's community centre for arts, culture & inspiration. Performance theatre, art gallery, daycare, youth centre, meditation room, meeting facilities. www.artswhistler.com or 604-935-8410 Pemberton & District Community Centre - Located at 7390 Cottonwood St. Fitness Centre, facility rentals, spray park, playground, children, youth, adult & seniors programs. For more info 604-894-2340 or pemrecinfo@slrd.bc.ca

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Earls is starting to build our team for Spring and Summer Servers, Cooks, Hosts, Expeditors, Bartenders & Shift Managers Visit us at the restaurant anytime to apply in person or via email at apply.whistler@earls.ca

Executive Director / Administrator

The Community Foundation of Whistler is seeking expressions of interest for the position of part time Executive Director / Administrator. The ideal candidate will have: • Excellent interpersonal skills, able to develop and maintain successful working relationships with the Board of Directors, donors, our committees, community leaders and other charitable organizations.

• The capacity to lead, motivate and effectively communicate within the organization and with numerous external stakeholders groups.

• Planning, organizational and management skills.

• Previous experience and expertise as a senior administrator or business owner.

• A post–secondary education or equivalent and strong administrative, financial and marketing skills.

MUSEUMS Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre Explore First Nations Art Galleries, and Interactive Exhibits. Gift Shop & Cafe are in our admission free area. Open Tuesday's-Sunday's per week. 10am5p.m..

• Research and analytical skills for developing and supplying information.

• Good working knowledge of computers and accounting software.

See full job description online at www.whistlerfoundation.com.

Please submit expressions of interest to slawther@whistlerfoundation.com by 5 p.m. April 5, 2019.

Whistler Museum & Archives Society - Explore interactive exhibits, listen to local stories & discover Whistler's journey. Open daily 11am5pm, 4333 Main St. www.whistlermuseum.org or 604-9322019

PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING BNI Mountain High - Meets at 6:45-8:30am every Thursday at The Venue. BNI provides a positive and structured environment for development and exchange of quality business referrals. It does so by helping you build personal relationships with dozens of other qualified business professionals.

Register by emailing blair@blairkaplan.ca Whistler Chamber of Commerce - Is the leading business association in Whistler that works to create a vibrant & successful economy. Learn more about the programs & services at www.whistlerchamber.com Women of Whistler - Group that provides opportunities for Whistler businesswomen to network, gain knowledge & share ideas in a friendly, relaxed environment. Learn more at www.womenofwhistler.com

FOR SENIORS Activate & Connect - Come join us Thursday mornings 9:30am to 11:00am at Whistler Community Services for a weekly drop in program for seniors 50+. Everyone welcome, in partnership with Mature Action Community. www.mywcss.org Outreach Services - Free confidential support for adults dealing with the challenges of social wellness. Please call our office at 604.932.0113 to speak with an outreach worker.

Senior Citizen Organizations - Is an advocacy group devoted to improving the quality of life for all seniors. Ernie Bayer 604-576-9734 or ecbayer2@gmail.com

Roland’s Pub is looking for part time server’s and bartender for weekend day shifts.

Experience and Serving It Right certification required.

Please apply in person or email resume to info@rolandswhistler.com

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Look for WAG’s bright orange bandanas on dogs being walked by volunteers! These dogs are looking for their forever home.

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Whistler Landscaping is looking for energetic and reliable landscape labourers & gardeners to join our team.

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Mature Action Community (MAC) Represents seniors in Whistler and welcomes new members. MAC meets for fun and interaction with local seniors and those just visiting on Thursday mornings from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m. at the Whistler Community Services Community Room for Activate and Connect.

Come join us for coffee and socializing while engaging in fun activities. Check us out at www.whistlermac.org or view our schedule on Facebook - Whistler Mature Action Community Group page.

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Employment Opportunities · Manager, Legislative Services We are hiring journeymen & apprentices for the following trades:

Plumbers, Gas Fitters, HVAC, Refrigeration, Skilled General Labour We are a seven-day-a-week service and repair company working from North Vancouver to Pemberton. We provide flexible steady employment, good wages, benefit package, service vehicle, cell phone and more. The successful candidate will be a professional tradesman both in appearance, skill and attitude that is able to work independently and as part of a team.

· Climate Change Coordinator · Program Leader - Myrtle Philip Community Centre · Lifeguard/Swim Instructor · Labourer I - Turf · Bylaw Park and Trail Ambassador · Labourer II - FireSmart

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ESTIMATOR / PROJECT MANAGER (PEMBERTON) Wide Open Welding Ltd is looking for a full-time Estimator / Project Manager.

The candidate will need to possess the following skill set: This is a multi-faceted position. The ideal candidate will be highly organized and detail oriented. Strong interpersonal skills, the ability to express ideas clearly in both written and oral communication and strong presentation skills. Must have the ability to analyze issues and determine priorities in an environment of tight and conflicting deadlines. Proficiency in planning, scheduling, execution and management of projects. An ability to read drawings and perform take-offs is a must. Our office is located in Pemberton and the job will entail travelling to and from job sites in the corridor to conduct site measurements, layouts and verifications. Candidate MUST have a commitment to excellence and the production of high quality end results.

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Whistler Waldorf School Inspiring a Genuine Love of Learning

Currently Seeking: Grade One teacher to start a journey through the grades with our newest Grade One class for the upcoming 2019-20 school year.

For more information and to apply visit our website. whistlerwaldorf.com

Pemberton Men's Shed - Weekly social meetings WED. 11-2 in the Seniors/youth Rec. bldg. beside library.

Social meeting with BYO Bag lunch, card games and pool/snooker. Help out in YOUR community, operating the Pemberton Tool Library.

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY Earthsave Whistler - Providing info & support to people who are interested in making healthier, greener, more peaceful food choices. earthsavewhistler.com Healthy Home, Healthy Planet Expert in green cleaning offers tricks, info & advice on the best way to green clean your home or work space! Call France 604-698-7479. Free private presentation on request. www.healthylivingwhistler.com Re-Build-It Centre - Daily 10:00am to 5:00pm. Accepting donations of furniture, quality used building supplies & new items. Deliveries and pickups available for $35. Call 604.932.1125, www.mywcss.org, rebuildit@mywss.org Regional Recycling Recycle beverage containers (full deposit paid) electronics, appliances, batteries, Lightbulbs, drop-off times are 9am-5pm on Nesters Rd. Pick up service 604932-3733 Re-Use-It - Daily 11:00am to 6:00pm, Donate all household goods in good shape. Accepting bottles & cans, old electronics, anything with a cord, and light fixtures for recycling. All proceeds to WCSS. Call 604.932.1121, w w w . m y w c s s . o r g , reuseit@mywcss.org.

The Association of Whistler Area Residents for the Environment (AWARE) - Whistler's Natural Voice since 1989. Regular events, project and volunteer opportunities. www.awarewhistler.org info@awarewhistler.org The Mountain Village Social Gathering - Join us at one of our regular social gatherings on the last Wednesday of every month. There is a group of us at The Mountain Village who are forming a sustainable, multi generational neighbourhood based on the co housing model. WHAT IF... Housing wasn't just a place to live, but rather, a way of life? To find out more, visit our Facebook page @themountainvillage or go to our website www.themountainvillage.ca

FAMILY RESOURCES Baby/Child Health Clinics - Free routine immunizations & newly licensed vaccines for purchase, growth & development assessments & plenty of age appropriate resources avail. By appointment 604-932-3202

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Kids on the Move - Provides financial assistance to enable children of financially restricted families to participate in sport programs. Contact WCSS at 604.932.0113 to speak with an outreach worker. www.mywcss.org.

Outreach Services - Free confidential support for adults and families experiencing challenges with mental health, food insecurity, housing insecurity, substance use, misuse or addiction, employment, eating disorders, violence in relationships, roommate conflict or homesickness. Contact our office at 604.932.0113 to speak with an outreach worker or visit www.mywcss.org.

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Camp Fund - Provides financial assistance to enable children of financially restricted families to attend camp. Call WCSS at 604.932.0113 to speak with an outreach worker. www.mywcss.org Families Fighting Cancer In The Sea To Sky - We are a non profit partner with Sea to Sky Community Services.

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- Earn a ++ Rate of Pay The Four Seasons Housekeeping team is looking for Guestroom Attendants for contracts starting immediately.

Candidates with a minimum of one year of experience will receive an elevated rate of pay upon hire.

$500 signing bonus available for all hires

Details: Please apply online via jobs.fourseasons.com Housing is available for successful candidates as well!

WHATâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ON YOUR CAREER HORIZON SPECIALIST, HUMAN RESOURCES FULL TIME, YEAR ROUND

Working in a generalist capacity, the Human Resources Specialist provides expertise in the development and implementation of human resources initiatives, constantly striving to ensure the programs in place are working effectively and proactively to attract, retain, motivate and develop employee.

Through previous experience working in Human Resources, along with the related education, this role requires an individual who is familiar with all areas of human resources and highly organized.

The ideal candidate is someone who has a strong customer service focus, with the ability to foster strong relationships and build trust across all levels of the organization. Previous experience with HR systems is required and a degree or diploma in a human resources related field and/or CHRP designation is an asset.

For the complete job description and to apply, visit whistler.com/careers.

Pemberton Parent Infant Drop-In Facilitated by Capri Mohammed, Public Health Nurse. Every Mon 11am12:30pm at Pemberton Public Library.

Pemberton Strong Start Family Drop-In- A play group for you and your under-5 child. Signal Hill Elementary, Mon, Tues, Wed & Fri, 9am-12pm.

Thurs only 12pm-3pm. Call 604-8946101 / 604-966- 8857 Whistler Public Library - Open MonThurs 10am-7pm, Fri 10am-6pm, Sat & Sun 11am-5pm. Music & Words, Mon 10am. Rhyme & Song, Tues 10:30am.

Parent & Infant drop-in, Thurs 11am.

Preschool Story Time, Fri 10:30am.

Singing with the babies, Sat 11am. Call 604-935-8433

SOCIAL SERVICES

Whistler Bungee are hiring the following positions: The Pinnacle Hotel Whistler has the following positions available:

MAINTENANCE PERSON

Full and part time maintenance people required to start immediately for the summer season or year round.

Basic painting, drywall, plumbing experience.

Hours are 8:30 to 4:30 Wages are competitive and full benefits.

Contact parmstrong@pinnaclehotels.ca Only those of interest will be contacted.

BOOKING AGENTS

Sales and office experience preferred

BRIDGE CREW

Applicants must be outgoing and enthusiastic

PHOTOGRAPHERS

Applicants should have basic knowledge or have a strong interest in learning photography and love working outside Please send a copy of your cover letter and resume to:

jobs@whistlerbungee.com

Access to Justice - Need legal advice but are financially restricted? Contact WCSS at 604.932.0113 to find out more or visit www.mywcss.org.

Counselling Assistance Available WCSS subsidizes access to a private counselor for $35-$50/hr depending on financial need. Contact an outreach team member at 604-932-0113 www.mywcss.org Counselling Assistance - WCSS subsidizes access to a private counselor depending on financial need. Contact an outreach worker at 604.932.0113 or visit www.mywcss.org.

ESL Volunteer Tutor Program - Volunteer one-to-one tutoring for new immigrants & Canadian citizens.

For more information or to register, contact the Whistler Welcome Centre info@welcomewhistler.com or call 604.698.5960

Locally owned & operated since 1986. is seeking

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MIN. 3 YEARS EXPERIENCE COMPETITIVE WAGES, TIPS AND DINNER Call 604-932-5565 in the afternoon and ask for Rolf or Jeff or email resume to info@rimrockwhistler.com

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ASSISTANT MANAGER & SALES ASSOCIATE We are looking for a reliable, self-motivated individual who loves to work with people. Shifts would vary including alternating weekends once fully trained. Previous retail and merchandising experience preferred.

What we offer: Awesome work environment, Competitive salary, bonuses & the opportunity to work where you live, while saving time and money ($2 p/h) on your commute!

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COMMUNITY LISTINGS SOCIAL SERVICES Food Bank, Pemberton - Run by Sea to Sky Community Service. Open every second Monday. 604 894 6101

Food Bank Whistler - Located at 8000 Nesters Road, every Monday from 10am to noon. For emergency food bags, please call 604.935.7717 for as-sistance. www. mywcss.org, food-bank@mywcss.org

ResortQuest Whistler is currently hiring:

Healthy Pregnancy Outreach ProgramLearn how to prepare healthy affordable meals at this outreach program. Sea to Sky Community Services 604-894-6101

Accounts Receivable Group Sales Coordinator

Meadow Park Rec Credit - If you are financially restricted, you may be eli-gible for a $131.20 municipal recrea-tion credit.

Contact WCSS at 604.932.0113 and speak with an out-reach worker. www. mywcss.org.

Rooms Inspector Maintenance Breakfast Attendants Casual part-time

Benefits include - activity allowance, extended medical, RRSP match, opportunities for growth and more.

Do you love the outdoors and have a passion for all things Whistler?

Would you love to share your enthusiasm and create activity programs that allow our guests to experience their limitless adventures?

Your ultimate dream job awaits!

To apply for this opportunity, please specify the position and email your resume and cover letter to:

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We thank all applicants for their interest but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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Recreational Retreat Caretaker (ANDERSON LAKE)

McGillivray Falls Recreational Retreat is a recreational community of 30 family-owned cabins spread over 120+ acres on Anderson Lake, 56 km. from Pemberton. Access is by boat; there is no road.

The community is seeking a full-time on-site caretaker, to start early May 2019. A semi-furnished two-bedroom home is provided, together with satellite-based internet. Otherwise, the location is off-grid â&#x20AC;&#x201C; there is no telephone service. Electric power is solar supplemented by a micro-hydro generating plant.

Winter conditions can be harsh; visiting Pemberton for supplies sometimes requires 4-wheel drive.

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F&B: Pastry First Cook Banquet Sous Chef Sous Chef 1st cook - PT Breakfast Cook - PT Server Assistant Expo Host

Casual Banquet Server Hotel: Chief Engineer Hotel Maintenance Painter Bell Attendant Reservations Coordinator Guest Services Agent Night Audit

Ask about our staff housing opportunities contact us careers@nitalakelodge.com www.nitalakelodge.com I @nitalakelodge today

The Caretaker is responsible for security, grounds maintenance, and upkeep and repair of the common property. This is a full-time position; however, work hours are flexible. Experience with basic residential construction and small-motor mechanics is essential. Preference will be given to candidates who own a power boat and a 4-wheel drive vehicle, as the community does not supply these.

If this interests you, please send resume and contact details to juspow@telus.net.

North Shore Schizophrenia Society Services for family, friends & community.

Mental illness info, support & advocacy.

Call Chris Dickenson at 604-966-7334

Outreach Services - Free, confidential support for youth experiencing challenges with mental health, food insecurity, housing insecurity, substance use, misuse or addiction, employment, eating disorders, violence in relationships, roommate conflict or homesickness. Contact our office at 604.932.0113 to speak with an out-reach worker or visit www.mywcss.org.

Pearl's Safe Home - Temporary shelter for women & children experiencing abuse in relationships. Locations in Whistler & Pemberton avail 24/7. All services are free. 1-877-890-5711 or 604-892-5711

RMOW Rec Credit - If you are financially restricted, you may be eligible for a $127.60 municipal recreation credit.

Contact WCSS at 604.932.0113 www. mywcss.org

Support Counselling - For women regarding abuse & relationship issues. No charge. Call 604-894-6101

Victim Services - Assists victims, witnesses, family members or friends directly affected by any criminal act or traumatic event. Call 604-905-1969

Whistler Community Services Society - Outreach Services Now Available Monday to Saturday at our new location - 8000 Nesters Road (next to WAG) 604.932.0113 www.mywcss.org

Whistler Food Bank - Located in the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation Social Services Centre, 1519 Spring Creek Dr. Every Mon 10am-12pm. For emergencies call 604-935-7717 www.mywcss.org foodbank@mywcss.org

Whistler for the Disabled - Provides info for people with disabilities on what to do & where to go. Visit www. whistlerforthedisabled.com

Whistler Housing Authority - Long-term rental & ownership housing for Whistler residents. Visit www.whistlerhousing.ca

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Whistler Mental Health & Addiction Services - If you or someone you know needs help with a mental health issue or substance misuse or addiction problem, we can assist. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. 604698-6455

Whistler Multicultural Network Settlement information, social support and programs for newcomers and immigrants living/working in Whistler. 604-388-5511 www.whistlermulticulturalnetwork.com

Whistler Opt Healthy Sexuality Clinic - Professional sexual health services at a reduced cost. Free HIV testing. Clinics at Whistler Health Care Ctr, 2nd floor on Tues 4:30-7:30pm. Winter hours Thurs.

5:00pm-7:00pm. Confidentiality assured.

Whistler Women's Centre - Provides confidential support, resources, referrals and advocacy for women living in the Sea to Sky corridor. All services are free of charge and include access to emergency safe housing, child/youth counselling, play space and computer access. Drop-In Centre open Mon 12-230, Tue-Thu 12-5.

1519 Spring Creek Drive. You can also access our services at the Whistler Public Library on Mondays from 3-6 p.m. www. hswc.ca or call (604)962-8711. 24 HR Crisis Line: 1-877-890-5711

Whistler WorkBC Employment Services Centre - Provides free onestop employment services to job seekers and employers. Drop in services at the Pemberton Library Thursdays 1-5 PM, and at the Whistler Public Library on Mondays from 3-6 PM. For more information visit www.WhistlerESC.com or call us at 604-932-1600

Security Officer Demi Chef de Partie Overnight Steward

LOVE YOUR JOB AND YOUR LIFE WSSF SURVEYORS Are you a mature, outgoing, knowledgeable local who enjoys talking to people?

Overnight Front Office Supervisor

Tourism Whistler is currently hiring for WORLD SKI AND SNOWBOARD FESTIVAL SURVEYORS!

The Four Seasons team is looking for these roles to start immediately.

POSITION SUMMARY Surveyors play a key role in gathering information about the guest experience in Whistler. The surveyors collect information from visitors in a non-biased manner throughout the Whistler village during WSSF. Surveyors conduct face-to-face, intercept surveying on iPads.

$500 signing bonus available for all hires

Our ideal candidates are mature, outgoing, knowledgeable locals who are available to work during WSSF as follows:

Details: Please apply online via jobs.fourseasons.com Housing is available for successful candidates as well!

- Available for each of the 5 days of the Festival (April 10 – 14) - Shifts are four hours taking place between 11am and 5pm - Surveys are collected outdoors, in various locations throughout Whistler village in all weather conditions - Pay is $18 per hour All interested applicants please contact Brandon: bsmith@tourismwhistler.com

SUPPORT GROUPS Birth, Baby and Beyond - Join a reg-istered counselor and meet other moms with the opportunity to ask questions and share experiences in a safe, welcoming and non-judgmental setting.

Call 604.932.0113 for more information or visit www.mywcss.org.

Concussion Support Group - WCSS is offering a recurring 8 week program to support people living with persistent postconcussion symptoms. Contact WCSS at 604.932.0113 and speak with an outreach worker about upcoming sessions or visit www.mywcss.org.

Epilepsy Support GroupFor individuals & families seeking guidance or support. Contact eswhistler@gmail.com

Immigrant Peer Educators - Immigrants providing support and information for those who may be experiencing challenges adjusting to a new culture. 604-388-5511 info@whistlermulticulturalnetwork.com

Pregnancy and Infant Loss - Facilitat-ed by a registered counselor, this pro-gram is designed for couples and indi-viduals who have experienced loss of a child, either before or after birth. Please call WCSS at 604.932.0113 and speak to an outreach worker for more information or visit www.mywcss.org.

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‘How can I help you?’

I was tempted to wade into a third part of the Annals of Ignorance this week, but giving the topic more thought, decided arrogance was the human frailty that lay at the heart of this missive more accurately than ignorance. It was a close call since there is enough overlap to go either way.

Long before Whistler, the resort, gained a reputation for world classiness, nosebleed pricing and a swish factor saved largely by the gnarly terrain challenging unsuspecting skiers and boarders visiting from other resorts, it had a reputation for outstanding customer service. Problem with your gear?

We can fix that. Problem with your pass?

No problem at all; we can fix that. Chairlift dripped black yuck on your Bogner?

by G.D. Maxwell We’ll have it cleaned to your satisfaction.

Conditions not to your liking? If you decide in reasonable time, we’ll refund your ticket.

The historic reasons for that were twofold. First was the creation of Blackcomb. When Blackcomb opened for the 1980-81 season, it didn’t have a lot of skiing to offer. What it had—and what it developed to a fine art—was service. As Hugh Smythe, who had the daunting task of managing, well, mostly everything about Blackcomb in the early days recalled, “I had some fairly simple philosophies. One was building a culture based on outstanding service, friendliness and delivering the total experience. It was a way of differentiating ourselves from Whistler Mountain. To me, it just made good sense.”

This meant little, unexpected things, like Sniffle Stations and really unexpected things like staff, Hugh included, clearing snow off guests’ windshields late in the day.

It meant better food than Whistler Mountain served. It meant friendly lifties. And it meant empowered guest-relations staff whose mandate was pretty simple: Fix it!

The second reason was a blend of Whistler mountain’s family-owned paternalism and the decision of both mountains to engage in “friendly” competition. Once Blackcomb reached a size that even Franz Wilhelmsen had to take seriously, a third entity was created: Dual Mountain.

It was pretty clear visitors to the resort were going to want to ski both mountains and even clearer having to buy two different tickets was going to be a pain in the posterior.

So détente was struck by the accounting challenge of dual-mountain tickets, good on either side of the divide. Blackcomb was the brash, corporate upstart with this whole service thing going; Whistler was the stalwart pater familias with familiar faces who’d been there since the start and weren’t going anywhere. Think Bob Dufour.

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the Age of Arrogance.

Having weathered the downside of success, which is to say being purchased

by Pirate and Fortress, in that order, Whistler Blackcomb’s juicy balance sheet and dominant position in North America made it ripe for the new corporate masters to absorb it into VailBorg: Welcome 13 of 19 to the collective. Unlike the first two carpetbaggers to own us—who didn’t know diddly about running a ski resort and therefore left management to do that voodoo they do so well—Vail Resorts, perennially ranking second or third behind Whistler Blackcomb, knew everything about running ski resorts. So now they’re running things ... into the ground, thank you.

The two letters in last week’s Pique captured, in fine detail, the utter arrogance of Vail Resorts’ centralized, corporate,

of something called a Local Pass that doesn’t work locally, duh. After all, this is about arrogance, not ignorance. And I’m not interested in whether the people in question purchased the wrong pass or were sold the wrong pass. Not an issue.

Pre-Vail Resorts, if someone walked into Guest Relations with this story, the answer would have been, “No problem. Let’s get you the right pass.”

Maybe you’re wondering how I can be sure of this. Unlike many weeks when I write about things I know nothing about, I know about this. Eighteen or 19 years working in Guest Relations for Whistler Blackcomb is my cred.

Mistakes happen. It doesn’t matter who makes them. The job of good customer service is to fix them. And working for a company that would pretty much bend over

Pre-Vail Resorts, if someone walked into Guest Relations with this story, the answer would have been, “No problem.

Let’s get you the right pass.”

our-way-or-the-highway management.

In both cases—and these two are by no means the only ones—customers, guests, the very people we rely on to keep us in business, either purchased or were sold the wrong season pass. They discovered they’d purchased Epic™ Local Passes instead of Epic™ Passes after they’d skied their 10 days here and their passes didn’t work any more.

I’m not going to delve into the confusion

backward to deliver good service, I would have said, no problem. Looking in to the pass history and seeing what kind of pass these folks generally purchased, I could have fixed it on my own, maybe with one phone call to pass administration. Even if they didn’t have a pass history, it would have been fixed and in all likelihood, they’d have been offered the pass they wanted at the price they would have paid at the time

they purchased the wrong pass.

Problem solved. Have a nice day. That’s how we roll, er, rolled. As frontline staff and managers, we were empowered to fix problems. We had the authority to do the right thing. Sometimes we went too far. That was considered a teachable moment. We were told, or we told staff, they’d probably gone too far to fix the problem but that was all right; we preferred they erred on the side of over-delivering, not the other way around.

To be told, as one letter writer apparently was, Vail Resorts’ staff is all highly trained and know their products, is world-class arrogance and flies in the face of reality. My experience since Vail Resorts took over is that frontline staff frequently don’t know their products despite whatever training they’ve been through. Last year, in April (!), I had to walk a ticket seller through a transaction to use one of my discounted sightseeing passes. On a number of occasions, I’ve had to help guest-relations staff find a product I wanted to purchase.

Heck, one time when I went south and skied at Vail, I even had to help the ticket seller there find my ticket! Easy enough since they used the same point-of-sale system.

It is not simple to do dozens, perhaps hundreds of transactions selling dozens of different products without making a mistake now and then. It’s even harder when you have constant staff turnover, even during the season. Everyone makes mistakes. The difference between companies who believe in good service is how they recover.

Vail Resorts’ recovery? Epic Failure.

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5134 Alta Lake Road

$3,769,000

This private oasis has been beautifully renovated with modern finishes to compliment the classic log details. Light streams into this fabulous home which features a large chefs kitchen perfect for entertaining, cozy wood burning fireplace, 5 decks to take in the views, and spacious living and dining areas. Matterport 3D Showcase: rem.ax/5134

Bruce Watt

604.905.0737

#108D - 2020 London Lane

4.5

$145,000

6467 St. Andrews Way

$1,825,000

Fantastic, sunny mountain and golf course views from this quiet location in Whistler Cay Heights. Three bedrooms and 2 and a half bathrooms with the third bedroom being large enough that it doubles as a TV and games room.The main floor BBQ deck and a lower hot tub deck both overlook the views. Matterport 3D Showcase: rem.ax/6467standrews

Chris Wetaski

604.938.2499

10300 Gun Lake West Road

3

$599,000

2 bedroom, 2 bathroom townhouse with 1 car garage and 3 decks! This updated home has a lovely wood burning fireplace, hardwood and tile flooring throughout, vaulted ceilings, custom wood countertops, stainless steel appliances, lots of natural light, and an accessible back yard because of its unique location in the complex.

Evolution is the ultimate ski in / ski out, pet friendly ¼ ownership in Whistler! This corner onebedroom suite offers everything you would wish for in a vacation property, at a fraction of the cost. The open floor plan features sophisticated design, a fully equipped kitchen, complete with granite countertops and Miele appliances, and an elegant living area.

Featuring a 4.5-acre lakefront property with spectacular lake and mountain views, over 330 feet of lakefront and a rustic Pan Abode cabin, which is fully serviced and accessible by road year-round. This large flat acreage has a very private treed setting, your own creek running down one side and a beautiful beach complete with dock.

Dana Friesen Smith

Dave Beattie*

Dave Halliwell*

2

604.902.3878

#6 - 4636 Blackcomb Way

$197,000

Adjacent to the Fairmont Chateau golf course, this rarely available, 1/5th interest in an immaculate 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom townhome boasts a spacious open layout , heated slate floors in bathroom. A cozy wood burning fireplace, large master bedroom with sitting area, and plenty of secure parking are among the many amenities. .

Dave Sharpe

1

604.902.2779

#201 - 2111 Whistler Road

$429,000

1

604.905.8855

#20 - 4325 Northlands Blvd.

$1,150,000

The only established AirBnB 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom 851 sf Sunpath at Stoney Creek townhome with established clientele now available. Assume all bookings for easy income transition or finish off the season and make it your personal getaway.

Matterport 3D Showcase: bit.ly/20SunpathB

Denise Brown*

604.935.2013

604.932.7727

8556 Drifter Way

1.5

$2,799,000

This property is the king of views and privacy in Alpine. Sit on top of the world of Whistler, enjoying your hot tub on a cliff edge overlooking just about everything, Blackcomb & Whistler Mountain, Green Lake, Armchair, Wedge. Need a mortgage helper? Monthly revenues of $5,500.00 to help.

2

Doug Treleaven

604.905.8626

5

#37 - 8400 Ashleigh McIvor Dr. $2,249,000

#11 - 2211 Marmot Place

Best priced phase 1 property available in Whistler, unlimited owner use or rental ! Central location, walking distance to Whistler creekside. Monthly strata fee is ‘all inclusive’ having just one bill to pay makes ownership so easy! Leasehold property so traditional financing not available.

Red Sky offers luxury West Coast contemporary design complete with inspiring panoramic views of both Whistler and Blackcomb mountains. Blessed with all day sun, this spacious mountain home features built-in millwork, fir, shaker-style interior doors with satin chrome door hardware & stain resistant berber carpeting.

2 bedroom/2 bath corner townhouse located in Whistler Creek! These townhomes do not come on the market often. Located walking distance to the Creekside Gondola, bike park, shopping & restaurants. This updated townhouse boasts a spacious master and second bedroom, new flooring throughout and an open concept kitchen and living area.

James Collingridge

Josh Crane

Matt Chiasson

604.902.0132

1

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604.902.6106

3.5

604.935.9171

$949,900

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