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Where does Whistler go from here?

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WB OPENING The bike park is set to open if B.C. moves into Phase 3 of restart plan

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36 Canada Day Quiz 2020 There’s no parade to celebrate our great country this year, but we can still enjoy Pique’s annual quiz on politics, arts, sports and more! - By Pique Staff

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to do so, the Resort Municipality of Whistler officially adopted its updated

graduates share their memories and look back at moving on

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08 OPENING REMARKS It’s time for Canada to take a page out of our grads’ experiences and open a new chapter on what kind of country we want to live in.

10 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letter writers this week express support for dog owners following dog-leash bylaws and give thanks for teachers and school-support staff.

13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Writer Andrew Mitchell reminisces about one of Canada’s greatest bands, Rush, and encourages us to listen to them as part of our Canada Day celebrations.

82 MAXED OUT Vail Resorts needs to pivot Whistler Blackcomb to focus on the regional market if it wants to survive the pandemic this year.

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34 ECOLOGIC Writer Leslie Anthony reminds us that it’s not just coronavirus out there. Nations are fighting tick-borne diseases, Ebola, and bubonic plague. Even our bananas are in peril from Panama Disease!

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66 EPICURIOUS The Whistler Farmers’ Market is still attempting to find a site to host its popular market this year that will fit as many vendors as possible under physical-distancing rules.

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Time for action ONE DOOR is closing and another is opening—we are moving forward into an opportunity for change that has rarely been seen in this generation.

In many ways, we are embarking on a new chapter of our lives.

This week, as I thought about my “Opening Remarks,” I was thinking of our Whistler Secondary School convocation in these pandemic times and how graduation itself marks the passage of youth into a new chapter of their lives.

BY CLARE OGILVIE edit@piquenewsmagazine.com

But, like many Canadians, my focus is constantly being drawn to the shifting societal landscape of the world around us, and in particular the acceptance that racism and intolerance in all its forms is part of the Canadian experience.

since early April were honoured. Around the outside of the gathering area, photos were placed telling the story of each of them.

Powerful.

Attendees were invited to share comments, and what was common to all, including the organizers of the day, was that now is the time for action. We are finally moving beyond the time for just words.

Has it taken a pandemic for us to face the injustice of what First Nations people and those of colour face living in one of the most-blessed countries in the world?

Our grads are facing some huge challenges and opportunities as they head out on this new chapter of their lives.

I would suggest that we are in the same situation today in facing up to systemic racism in Canada. We have a chance to start a new chapter in Canada’s history, moving forward together and creating change—but it has to come from every one of us.

While it is imperative that governments at every level address the structure and

“The RCMP were here to enable law and order, which came from the colonial system.

It wasn’t our law, our order.”

TERRY TEEGEE

It’s easy to point south of the border and say racism is an American phenomenon, which makes it oh-so comfortable to feel a bit superior.

But it feels like finally Canadians are recognizing that Canada is not immune to these problems.

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processes that make racism systemic, the change won’t be systemic if it is not embraced by all of us.

At the very root of this change must be education.

I wonder how many know that there are 11 drinking-water advisories within 10 Indigenous communities in B.C. The Trudeau government made an election promise in 2015 that all long-term water

advisories for First Nations in Canada would be lifted by March 2021. At that time, there were 105 long-term drinking water advisories on reserves—“long term” meaning a year or more.

Did you know that the word for the RCMP in the Carrier Nation is nilhchuk-un, which means those who take us away?

Said Terry Teegee, the Regional Chief of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations in an article in Pique this week, “parents saw the RCMP as the ones who took our children away to residential school.

“The RCMP were here to enable law and order, which came from the colonial system. It wasn’t our law, our order. And in many respects, those laws were used to take us from our lands and put us on smaller reserves, and really enforce a colonial system. If you look at recent history, over the last 100 years, the police were used to take our children away.”

Let that image settle as you look at your graduate, or your kids who are yet to graduate or have graduated.

It’s long past time for all of us to understand the tragic impact racism has and for each of us to commit to change.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Pique is excited to share with both our online and print readers that we are updating our website in the next several days. Along with a brand-new look, the site will offer a faster, more streamlined user experience. This will make accessing the important news and information you need and want across all devices much more user-friendly. Pique will continue to focus on delivering the content you want, whether that is local news from Whistler and Pemberton or extensive coverage of the arts, sports and events from around our town and corridor. All our columnists will be there as well. But there will be enhanced content, too, with B.C., national and international news readily available. n

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Enforce the leash-yourdog bylaw

Myrtle Philip parents say thanks

The rules of play are “leash your dog.”

The signs are up. No reasons are necessary.

If you want to change the rules, run for council and see whether the community has changed its mind regarding protection for residents, visitors and bears.

Forget education ... unless that is reading lessons! It is important, even more so on the mountain than in the valley, that directive signs in Whistler are not regarded as optional.

No waivers are signed before use of the Valley Trail. Dog bites and attacks are serious and distressing. Injuries to cyclists and pedestrians as a result of dog collisions and avoidance manoeuvres may be more rare, but are potentially worse.

If Whistler advertises itself in the U.S., is it going to take a U.S. lawsuit to expensively convince the municipality to enforce the bylaw?

Mayor Jack Crompton is right that it’s unrealistic to think bylaw officers will hit every stretch of trail and every park in a given day, but that is not the way enforcement works.

The RCMP enforces highway speed limits by unexpected unpredictable significant action. The municipality must do the same.

Compliance will follow.

William Caulfield // Whistler/North Vancouver

Phase 2?

Making predictions on anything COVID-19 has often been proven a fool’s errand. That said, based on the scrums, huddles and people-bunching tactics I saw in the village on Saturday, June 20, I won’t be surprised if cases [of COVID-19] show up with Whistler origins due to the shocking lack of social distancing and other reckless behaviours on display.

People were packed into pizza shops and onto playgrounds (parents seemingly ignorant and uninterested with a couple of dozen kids

Last week was the [Sea to Sky School District] SD 48 Staff Appreciation week and on behalf of the parent community at Myrtle Philip Community School (MPCS), we would like to send our biggest possible thank-you to all the staff at Myrtle Philip School.

The unprecedented events surrounding COVID-19 created intense complexity for our schools. Watching our school staff collaborate, innovate and reimagine learning over the past few months has been truly inspiring.

While staff managed their own personal changes and challenges brought by COVID19, they simultaneously led our students and families through these unprecedented events with safety, respect, courage, positivity and so much hard work.

It is with deep heartfelt thanks to all of you: our custodial staff, teachers, administration, Robyn, Jeff, and our amazing education assistants that we wish you all a wonderful, restful summer.

Kelly Hand // MPCS Parent Advisory Council

moshed together). Large groups congregated and blocked sidewalks ignoring the guidelines laid out by [B.C.’s provincial health officer] Dr. Bonnie Henry and supported by the Resort Municipality of Whistler.

All of our hard work and sacrifice put at risk by ignorant and careless visitors. I like our Village Stroll and embrace the concept of it being a place for locals and visitors to meet. For more than 25 years, I have been a village regular at work and at leisure. No longer and not for a long while.

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Looking at Vail Resorts’ political contributions Oh, for crying out loud. Mind if I call you Steve?

Where were we… so Steve [Threndyle] finally took my bait and did what at least part of his profession demands—a bit of research (Letters to the Editor, Pique, June 18).

Unfortunately, as I have pointed out to him numerous times, cherry picking a few convenient statistics is hardly any journalist’s full job

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR description. My curiosity regarding Vail Resorts’ “ties to the Republican Party” as he calls it is entirely contextualized by the extreme moral aberrance of the Republican Party’s present era where they fly their true colours, plus the position of cultural leadership (or lack thereof) which Vail Resorts presents in terms of actively opposing this repugnant political power.

Without this context, Steve’s narrow focus on a single data point of campaign contributions is moot. He knew the context I required and he continues to deny it... as those in denial tend to do.

To further clarify my point, consider only one fact he neglects to mention. Previous to now and including the 2016 U.S. election cycle that gave us President Donald Trump, Vail Resorts’ Political Action Committee (PAC) did indeed contribute to the Republican Party as detailed by a Powder magazine article around that time.

If this was their norm (it was) and now it is not (apparently so, although the 2020 election is still months away), then exactly why?

Has Steve done his professional duty to ask them this pertinent question? Will they state it publicly? Will they join with Aspen Snowmass and other industry and cultural leaders in pledging loudly and publicly that from this point on, there will be no campaign funding of the climate-change denial machine known as the Trump Republicans?

Yes, I realize these were employee donations, but faceless anonymous employees offer little in the way of leadership opportunities. Will Vail Resorts itself state this or similar?

For a number of years now, this is the context of my beef with Vail Resorts—the absence of leadership in an industry-wide, unified opposition to the Republican Party.

Many, including Steve, respond that “corporations just don’t do that” and largely that is true, they don’t. However, these are not conventional times, climate change is not a conventional problem and Vail Resorts’ conventional excuses are flat-out inadequate.

Look at it this way: If only the Ford Motor Company and other big shakers had stepped away from that same convention in Nazi Germany in the 1930s, their legacy and possibly others’ may have been a little bit rosier.

Bruce Kay // Powell River

Talking about trees It doesn’t take a scientist. If you Google or wiki “trees,” it is all over the Internet. We need trees.

Forests affect floods. Mess with your forests and you mess with the flow, and after a while, the forests can’t do their job and we pay for it.

Here are nine proven ways that trees make a big difference: Trees improve air and water quality, they reduce flooding and erosion, they temper climate, they conserve energy, are good for the economy, create habitat for plants and animals, and improve health.

Notice trees making good 2-by-4s, or supplying pulp or pellets for your wood stove doesn’t make the top 10?

Today, New Zealand has banned clear-

cutting of old growth.

China has a moratorium on cutting any natural forests. They only log from tree farms, and they import most of their raw-log, oldgrowth from… wait for it… B.C.!

Norway has become the first country to ban deforestation. In 2019, the Norwegian Parliament pledged that the government’s public procurement policy would be deforestation-free.

Any product that contributes to deforestation will not be used in the Scandinavian country.

The Billion Tree Tsunami is a provincial government program described as a “true conservation success story.” In northwestern Pakistan, hundreds of millions of trees have been planted to fight deforestation and floods.

Ethiopia is in the middle of a campaign to plant 4 billion trees before the fall to combat deforestation and climate change.

B.C. has the science and ability to save our forests and plant new trees, it doesn’t have the appetite.

Look out your window at the lake and watch it rise while we continue to fell trees in our watersheds, our parks and our backyards. Look at the costs related to this flooding and watch them rise.

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We are all responsible in the COVID-19 fight I lived in Whistler for 20 years and currently reside in Toronto.

When COVID-19 became the headline news leader every night more than four months ago, the images from China, South Korea and Italy forced us to watch in horror and it put worry in our minds.

People weeping in the streets, overcrowded hospitals, cold-storage containers used as morgues and mass graves are scary. The reality of what was to come had not hit home yet.

When weeks ago, the Canadian government asked us to self-quarantine for 14 days, we thought, no sweat, we can do that with ease.

It has not been easy.

It has been filled with worry and frustration, disappointment and disillusion, misinformation and distraction, but on many occasions, great leadership and hope.

Two of the great embarrassments were the failures of [U.K. Prime Minster] Boris Johnson and [U.S. President] Donald Trump (both of whom exhibited an amazing lack of good sense fuelled by arrogance) to provide even a modicum of responsibility and leadership to their nations, resulting in thousands of unnecessary deaths.

On the other hand, in New Zealand, a young mother and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was prioritizing genuine concern for human lives, gaining the support of her opposition and effectively reducing COVID-19 to its minimum.

In Canada, our own PM Justin Trudeau, except for not closing our borders immediately, has done a good job. His financial assistance programs are the stuff of optimistic thinking and best possible effort.

Of course we will pay the bills later. I’d

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR rather be alive to pay a plethora of bills and hug my loved ones than slip quietly into the long night. (I have never seen a Brinks truck taking money to a gravesite and I’ll be damned before I believe there is a reward on some other side.)

Doug Ford, a man I have criticized vigorously because I neither like him nor his politics, is a wonderful surprise. He stood as a non-partisan premier and held Ontario together. On this, he is worthy of great praise.

In B.C., we see similar praise-worthy efforts and in fact, save for Quebec, which fumbled badly, across our nation, we have done well.

What we haven’t done well so far is us. Us, propagating conspiracy theories, advancing political positions through misinformation, challenging science with popularism, contributing to the mental disquiet.

The experts have said this is an international pandemic, and describe it as a disaster similar to a major war. Deep in our minds we know this and are seeking solace.

There are no bullets, no bombs, no rockets, no explosions. That the instrument of our destruction is not identifiable to any of our five senses confuses us. We want answers.

And in this age of instant gratification that we may have to wait months seems illogical and unsatisfactory.

After all, we can build major things in months. This is a tiny virus. What the heck!

reported to hospital thinking they were infected, got tested and told they were not. It turned out 10 days later on insistence and secondary testing, they were both positive. Thankfully, they have both survived.

As much as we have been quarantined, it only means we are hiding from the killer and have no idea where COVID-19 is seeking its next victims. One virologist went so far as to say it is morphing.

For us to resume any form of protective and restricted normalcy, we must become proactive, find the bastard and actively fight it with disinfection and forced isolation. Let me put that quite clearly, if on March 25 the federal government had declared it would start a national state of emergency for 40 days starting on April 1 and no one would be allowed out of their homes except for health workers, and mobilized the armed forces and police to do door-to-door checks on compliance and infection, we would be in a safe position now.

We would have had time to get all the groceries and medication we needed (toilet paper, that great essential, notwithstanding) but that would have caused a hue and cry as draconian. Yet here we are. Stymied.

We will not be able to rekindle any economy until we have mass tested and this plague is defeated. All the money in the world is not worth the death of my children.

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Excuses to discredit the science abound.

The one thing I know is science is not a theory.

Science is that thing based on measurable consistencies that has been tested and proven true in any and every circumstance and condition. It is pure truth.

So it behoves us to drop the theorizing, accept the carefully peer-vetted reports and be patient.

The last great war lasted six years. Our grandparents survived it with much less of everything. For the most part, we have adequate homes, food, fuel, entertainment and communications systems, community resources, and governments around the world working together to defeat the enemy. That’s a first. I doubt boredom can kill, but I know COVID-19 will.

The other thing that we have not done well in Canada is mass testing for COVID-19.

In my weird imagination, I find COVID19 analogous to a serial killer. Much of the acceptable medical evidence has shown it can shift its target of attack. First it was pulmonary, then it showed up in asymptomatic patients seeking treatment for other illness in kidneys and hearts, and most recently, in a different attack on children.

The killer seems able to disguise and change tactics according to location and its prey.

Constantly looking for a weakness to inhabit.

I know personally of two friends who

I would rather starve to death in my apartment. Every restauranteur knows it is hardly possible to break-even operating at half-capacity (I say that because that’s the business I am familiar with). And I am sure that’s true for many other businesses. The longer it takes to defeat COVID-19, the longer we will all be on life support.

However, be that as it may, it’s not all gloom and doom. The number of infections is down and similarly the number of deaths.

Scientists have reported some advancement in the search for a vaccine and post broad-based testing will be able to start manufacturing in the not too distant future.

Protocols at malls and “essential” services regarding masks and sanitized usage have improved. At two main entrances of my apartment building, sanitizer stations have been installed. To me, that’s a sign we are getting it. No matter how beautiful the weather or how enticing a round of golf, a barbecue or a small family gathering may be, keep your guard up. We are at a stage where prudence must govern our actions.

You are responsible for yourself and also responsible to your family, friends and community. They love you and want you to be around. Stay strong, stay safe, and stay well.

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Lost in the Rush ALTHOUGH WE’RE ONLY at the halfway point, people are already wondering when 2020 will be over.

Wildfires, threats of war, a global pandemic and financial collapse, racial conflict and police brutality, killer hornets… the list is long and full of terrors.

BY ANDREW MITCHELL For myself, the bad news started on Jan. 7 with the announcement that Rush drummer Neil Peart, acclaimed as the greatest of all time, had passed after a long, private battle with glioblastoma—the same rare brain cancer that took the life of another Canadian music legend, Tragically Hip singer Gord Downie, just over two years earlier.

Rush fans knew Peart was having health issues and most of us made sure to be in the stands for R40—Rush’s 40th anniversary tour in 2015—because it was very likely going to be the last chance to see one of the greatest bands in history play live. The applause in sold-out Rogers Arena continued long after the band left the stage, the house lights came on and a crew of roadies rappelled down from the ceiling to disassemble the set. But nobody really

knew what those health issues were, and his death came as a sad shock to legions of fans.

Even the Prime Minister felt compelled to make a statement.

It’s hard to sum up what was lost. Peart was humble, funny and profound, a poetphilosopher who not only ruled on the drums but also wrote some of the most enduring lyrics in music.

And he was cool. After concerts, he wouldn’t hang out backstage or head to his hotel, he’d jump on his motorcycle and, still sweaty from working the largest drum kit in the rock world for close to three hours, start driving to the next concert venue.

He mixed up time signatures like it was routine, never played the same fill twice in a song, and pounded out some of the most iconic drum solos ever recorded.

“I never set out to be famous,” he once said, “I set out to be good.” In the Rush documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage, Kiss frontman Gene Simmons recalled that Rush would go back to their dressing room after playing shows to practice their art instead of joining the backstage party. They were truly in it for the music.

Spirits fly on dangerous missions / Imaginations on fire / Focused high on soaring ambitions Consumed in a single desire / In the grip of a nameless possession / A slave to the drive of

obsession / A spirit with a vision is a dream / With a mission (“Mission,” Hold Your Fire, 1987).

There’s a Rush lyric for everything, particularly for guys like me that are growing older and facing larger questions of mortality.

We are young / wandering the face of the earth / wondering what our dreams might be worth / learning that we’re only immortal / for a limited time (“Dreamline,” Roll the Bones, 1991).

Peart wrote books, turning an inconceivable personal tragedy—the loss of his daughter in a car accident followed by the loss of his wife to cancer 10 months later—into a wider search for understanding on a 55,000-kilometre road trip through North and Central America.

Rush never broke up or disbanded in the end; they went silent after R40.

Everybody who has ever picked up a musical instrument and tried to play along with Rush can understand why it couldn’t go on forever. Rush is hard. Their music was far too complex, too energetic, too technical, too physically demanding, too epic, for the aging process. It was bordering on superhuman for the trio of Peart, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson to accomplish what they did.

That’s why I’ve come to believe that Rush really is the objective standard for

excellence in music. The benchmark and the bass line.

Whatever the measure—musicianship and technical skill; lyricism; creativity, live performance; global recognition and fan base; ongoing relevance to music and pop culture; longevity; records sold and, while we’re at it, T-shirt sales—Rush sits at the top of the heap.

There are people who won’t agree.

While it’s a free country, I’ve come to the conclusion that those people are simply wrong. It’s like saying you don’t like the art of Van Gogh because he used too much blue or giving two thumbs down to Citizen Kane because its was 15 minutes too long.

If there could ever be an objective standard for quality in music, it has to be Rush, who in the end were bigger and better than any one person’s opinion.

If you want to understand how people really feel about this band, do yourself a favour and listen to the live version of “Tom Sawyer” from Rush in Rio. If the sound of 50,000 fans losing it doesn’t give you chills then you are missing out.

With Canada Day coming up and all the usual parades and public gatherings on hold, this July 1 is going to be a time of reflection as much as a time of celebration.

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Whistler’s Official Community Plan adopted at long last RECOGNITION, RECONCILIATION WITH FIRST NATIONS KEY IN ‘HISTORIC’ DOCUMENT

BY BRADEN DUPUIS NEARLY A DECADE after the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) first set out to update its 1993 Official Community Plan, the task is finally complete.

At its June 23 meeting, Whistler council formally adopted the updated Official Community Plan (OCP) bylaw in a unanimous vote.

“It’s been a long time coming, and it feels good,” said Mayor Jack Crompton.

“I think one of the most exciting things for me is how this sets us up to continue to work with the Squamish and the Lil’wat [Nations] in exciting ways going forward, and so there’s lots to do and there’s lots of exciting days ahead.”

The OCP provides a foundation for direction and decision-making in key areas, the mayor said: community planning and land-use management, growth management, housing, greenhouse gas emissions targets, and social and environmental issues among them.

“The OCP is a foundational document for the community,” Crompton said.

“So its adoption allows us to move forward on what’s most important to Whistler.”

Find the full document, as well as a chapter-by-chapter breakdown, at whistler.ca/ocp.

PLAN OF ACTION Whistler’s long-awaited Official Community Plan was finally adopted at Tuesday’s council meeting.

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THE LONG ROAD The update has been actively in the works since late 2017, and the bylaw received third reading in July 2019 after a public hearing in April of that year (see Pique, April 20, 2019: “Wide range of comments heard on OCP”).

The updated OCP bylaw’s regional context statement was approved by the board of the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District on Oct. 23, 2019, and the bylaw itself received approval from the provincial minister of municipal affairs on June 17.

With council’s adoption on June 23, it takes immediate effect.

But the saga of the OCP—a comprehensive plan that dictates public policy across practically every facet of municipal government—stretches well beyond that.

It was just over six years ago that Whistler’s updated OCP was quashed by the Supreme Court of B.C., which found that the provincial government did not properly consult with the local Squamish and Lil’wat Nations.

“I think we all sort of stepped back and realized that, going forward, working with the Nations required more investment in terms of building the relationship with them,” said outgoing Chief Administrative Officer Mike Furey, who has been working on updating Whistler’s OCP practically his entire time with the municipality.

Relationship building with the local First Nations was made a priority, and in April 2017, the RMOW signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between itself, the Squamish and Lil’wat Nations, Whistler Blackcomb and the provincial government,

which it said represented a “commitment to collaboration” amongst the parties, and which laid out a number of key interests to be explored (see Pique, April 21, 2017: “MOU a commitment to collaboration, Whistler CAO says”).

The MOU would serve as a foundation for relationship building moving forward, Furey said.

“That set out what some of our shared interests are, and shared objectives,” he said.

“And I think since that time, we’ve really been trying to build a relationship built on trust and good faith … I would describe it as a reconciliation process we’ve gone through.”

The OCP contains introductions and historical contexts written by the Lil’wat and Squamish Nations, as well as a chapter dedicated to reconciliation with both.

“I think there’s a lot in there that moves from talking about relationship building to actually laying down … clear understandings about how the Nations will become more part of our community,” Furey said.

“And there’s pieces in there that commit the RMOW to building cultural awareness, and recognizing the Nations in our tourism economy in Whistler.”

STRONGER TIES For the Squamish and Lil’wat, the updated OCP means more development opportunities, enhanced visibility in the resort, and assurance that there is recognition and a commitment to reconciliation from the RMOW.

“I really believe there is going to be more opportunities for the Nation, but there is also going to be a willingness from all parties to work together for things of mutual interest,” said Squamish Nation Councillor and spokesperson Chris Lewis.

“And there are mechanisms within the OCP that kind of ensure that we’re at the table together to work together.”

A government-to-government protocol agreement signed between the parties in 2018 “puts our feet to the fire” to work together on mutual interests, Lewis added (see Pique, July 26, 2018: “Squamish and Lil’wat sign protocol agreement with RMOW”).

“So I’m very optimistic in terms of what the future looks like in the RMOW for the Squamish Nation and our neighbours, the Lil’wat Nation,” he said.

“We’re really supportive of the result, and I really believe that through the last nine years, we’ve built a relationship government-to-government that’s going to allow us to continue to build that relationship through the OCP.” A new framework agreement between the parties—expected to be announced publicly in the coming days—aims to bring together some of the previous agreements under one roof, Furey said.

“It talks about the Kadenwood/Emerald land exchange that’s in the OCP, it talks about the creation of the economic development committee that’s referred to in the protocol, it talks about creating better economic opportunities for the Nations in Whistler that you’ll see in the policy objectives sections of Chapter 3 in the OCP,” he said.

NEWS WHISTLER “It sort of brings those things together and sets out a real commitment to working in good faith.”

The new OCP is another step towards allowing the Nations to realize their development aspirations in the corridor, Lewis said.

“And it’s also about ensuring our visibility and our presence as the first peoples of the land within the corridor, which allows our history to be the RMOW’s history, or the valley’s history,” he said.

NEW DEVELOPMENTS With the adoption of the OCP, some longcontemplated projects in Whistler may finally see the light of day.

The Lil’wat Nation can now move ahead with development of the Kadenwood lands it acquired as set out in the MOU (if it so chooses—the Lil’wat did not respond to requests for comment before Pique’s deadline), while the long-discussed Holborn lands, as they’re informally known, may finally see shovels in the ground.

In the 1993 OCP, the property—a prime piece of real estate located at the end of Northlands Boulevard, north of Whistler Village—was zoned for a 450-room hotel and other amenities, but “the new owner, being Beedie [Group Developments], they didn’t want to proceed with that, and it required an OCP amendment,” Furey said.

“The amendment process would require us to basically go through all of the things

“[The OCP’s] adoption allows us to move forward on what’s most important to Whistler.”

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we just went through to get it updated, so we opted not to go through one amendment but to do the whole thing.”

While the province doesn’t require local governments to adopt an OCP, it does recommend that they be updated every five years.

It’s also worth noting that an OCP does not commit a local government to proceed with any works or projects mentioned in the plan.

In terms of future OCP amendments in Whistler, the RMOW will no longer need ministerial approval to alter its OCP— putting it in line with all but two other local governments in B.C. “I think it provides more agility in making decisions and ability to move things forward without having to go through the province for approvals and to work with them,” Furey said.

“So I think it allows more flexibility and ability to entertain ideas like the Holborn (lands) … It certainly makes it a much more

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efficient sort of decision.”

That being said, all land-use decisions now permitted by the OCP—be it in Kadenwood, Holborn or the long-ago-outlined Whistler Blackcomb South Base—will still require a full public process.

“In terms of South Base, I don’t know of any plans, or certainly immediate plans,” Furey said.

“I haven’t heard any from Vail Resorts, and there would be a very, very extensive community process about a development of that nature.”

COMMUNITY COLLABORATION It’s hard to truly contextualize the full effort that has gone into updating Whistler’s OCP over the past decade.

Thousands of hours dedicated by RMOW staff and countless community members, spanning four council terms— along with input from committees and the public—have been condensed into a single guiding vision statement: “Whistler: A place where our community thrives, nature is protected and guests are inspired.”

“This is definitely a community project,” said Councillor Cathy Jewett.

“We have, I think, 42 boards and committees; I think almost every single one of them had a comment on the chapters that affected them.”

Coun. John Grills, who sat on the council that adopted the 2013 OCP (along with Crompton and Coun. Duane Jackson), noted the document “took a giant leap” with the 2018 update in terms of things like First Nations relations.

“This is a very big day—an historic day,” Grills said.

“And not only that part of it, but it now stays in the community. We get to work with it, and amend it as we need to.”

Adopting the bylaw makes for a “very exciting day” said, Coun. Jen Ford, who was first elected in 2014, a few months after the first update was rejected.

“This is a unique document that is really so special to our community, because every single person in this community had an effect on this document,” she said.

“But I especially want to point out, [director of planning Mike Kirkegaard], you’ve been all over this document—you’ve done wonderful work with our community, and this has your fingerprints all over it.”

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FAREWELL, FUREY It was somewhat fitting that the OCP was adopted at the June 23 meeting, as it was Furey’s last with the RMOW. “You have been so dedicated to this town, and we are so grateful for that dedication,” Crompton said at the meeting, as each council member took a moment to share some thoughts about Furey’s contributions.

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Room night bookings up as WB eyes June 29 opening MOUNTAIN OPS GO CASHLESS; FITZ, GARBO ZONES TO OPEN IN BIKE PARK

BY BRADEN DUPUIS WHILE BOOKINGS at Tourism Whistler (TW) are still well down relative to a normal summer, things are beginning to pick up as B.C. eyes Phase 3 of its four-phase COVID-19 restart plan.

“Our resort-performance monitoring shows us that room-night bookings have actually increased 10 per cent week over week in our latest report, so it’s definitely starting to pick up,” said Lauren Everest, Tourism Whistler’s senior manager of corporate and member communications.

“We know for sure that there is a lot of pent-up demand for regional travel, and we anticipate that a lot of travellers are likely waiting for B.C. to transition into Phase 3 and for the provincial health authorities to lift their recommendation against nonessential travel.”

The message for inquiring guests at this time is to try to align their travel plans with Phase 3 of the restart, Everest added.

“We are encouraging them to review the COVID-19 information and resources for travellers page [at whistler.com/covid], and that is a summary of what’s going on locally, provincially and federally when it comes to

COVID-19 through a tourism lens,” she said.

Guests and locals can also find info on local businesses’ reopening plans and safety protocols through TW’s Open Doors Directory (www.whistler.com/doors-open).

News that Whistler Blackcomb is targeting a June 29 opening day for its 2020 summer operations is encouraging, especially given recent responses to TW surveys, Everest said.

“We have been conducting research studies during the pandemic to monitor COVID-19 sentiment and travel intentions, and our latest report indicates that 80 per cent of the respondents from the B.C. market are intending to visit Whistler Blackcomb for hiking, sightseeing or biking this summer,” she said.

“So it’s great news that those experiences are going to be available.”

But with COVID-19 factoring in, Whistler’s summer experience is going to look much different than in past years.

“It’s a complete behavioural change, and I think the thing that people should take home is that we want to get open in a safe and responsible way—it’s not going to be the same experience that they’re used to, but we’re very eager to get back at it,” said Marc Riddell, Vail Resorts’ West Coast director of communications.

The Whistler Village Gondola, Peak 2 Peak Gondola and Blackcomb Gondola will bring hikers and sightseeing guests up the mountains, while the Whistler Mountain Bike Park will open with the Fitz and Garbanzo zones. Grab-and-go food options will also be available at the Rendezvous, Garbanzo Bike and Bean, and the Roundhouse Lodge.

All on-mountain transactions will be cashless.

The Blackcomb Ascent Trails will not be open right away, but could be phased in as summer progresses.

Physical-distancing rules will be in place and masks will have to be worn in several areas of the mountain including during line-ups and loading.

While most guests will likely be accustomed to being asked to physically distance, and maintain two metres from others, “the thing that is perhaps different for the guests is that we are asking them to wear face coverings, and that’s including people that are going to be using the bike park,” Riddell said.

Those without a mask will be asked to leave, Riddell said.

Gondolas and other high-touch surfaces will be frequently cleaned and disinfected, while hand-sanitizing stations will be

provided.

“If you come with a party, you’re going to be required to ride the gondola with that party,” Riddell said.

“We’re not going to mix and match folks, with the exception of the Peak 2 Peak gondola where you’ll have Plexiglas barriers in place and a limited capacity per gondola on that.”

Pricing for unlimited passes in the bike park range from $415 (child 7-12, regular $490) to $710 (adults 19 and up, $830 regular), while five-day passes are listed at $190 to $315 (find full pricing info at whistlerblackcomb.com).

While rentals will still be available (with proper cleaning and disinfecting protocols in place), bike school, lessons and camps will not be offered to start.

“We’re going to evaluate that and we’re hoping to introduce bike school as we go along, but certainly camps like the DFX camps won’t be running this year,” Riddell said.

Park riders are also asked not to camp out the night before opening day.

Capacity will be monitored consistently throughout the day, and managed as necessary, Riddell said.

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BY BRADEN DUPUIS AS BRITISH COLUMBIA carefully works its way into Phase 3 of its four-stage COVID-19 reopening plan, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is following suit in regards to local facilities and programming.

At its June 23 meeting held over Zoom, council opted to support a number of safe reopening strategies for municipal buildings and services.

Some, like municipal hall and the Whistler Public Library, are already open to some extent.

For others, like the popular Meadow Park Sports Centre (MPSC), the approach will be more complicated.

The multifaceted nature of the building makes its reopening complex, explained general manager of corporate and community services Ted Battiston at the meeting.

“There are pinch points in the building—corridors, hallways, change rooms,” Battiston said.

“We’re looking at using a number of different access doors, different doors into the pool area rather than coming through the front door. It is a complex building.

There are a lot of variables.”

A draft reopening plan for the MPSC builds in flexibility and scaling of services to meet changing directions from health authorities should COVID-19 transmissions swing for better or for worse during the phased reopening.

For example, limited arena bookings (for designated user groups) and outdoor fitness classes could return in early July, while limited fitness centre use and oneon-one indoor personal training are slated for mid-August.

Things like public skating, indoor fitness classes and group bookings could return in mid-September, with drop-in hockey potentially coming back in early October.

“We have our staff working hard on this,” Battiston said. “This has been obviously their focus for the last number of weeks, [and] it will continue to be their focus as each one of these comes on board.”

That being said, the timelines in the draft reopening plan for MPSC are targets, not given dates, said Chief Administrative Officer Virginia Cullen in a presentation to council.

“These could be sooner or later, it just depends on how we go with the facility opening, and whether or not there’s any change in direction from health authorities should conditions improve or worsen,” Cullen said.

“So this is our best estimate as it is right now, but it will continue to evolve as

we move forward in time and we will be communicating that as we go.”

While B.C. entered into Phase 2 of its four-phase COVID-19 restart plan on May 19, the timing for shifting into Phase 3 is less clear, according to a staff report to council, which noted that Phase 3 is “defined as taking place June through September if transmission rate remains low or in decline.”

Nevertheless, all municipal facilities need appropriate health and safety protocols in place before reopening, which has been a work in progress at municipal hall.

Safe work procedures have already been developed for municipal hall, the library, the wastewater treatment plant and more, while plans for Myrtle Philip (children’s summer programs) and the MPSC are still being worked on.

The RMOW will also be looking at increasing services at the library as Phase 3 begins, Cullen said.

“This will include limited in-person use of the facility, and [increasing access] stepwise as we are able to bring on more staff and ensure that physical distancing measures are in place,” she said.

“There will also be potential computer access as well as considerations for vulnerable populations as we do this.”

As for in-person council meetings, the RMOW is talking with staff at the Maury Young Arts Centre (MYAC) about how to bring them back, Cullen said.

“The proposed target with this is September to coincide with MYAC opening to the public, and also to make sure that we’ve got our staff resources focused on the library and the rec centre requirements in July and August,” Cullen said.

Further to the question of staff resources, a budget amendment will be brought forward at an upcoming meeting that will consider which of the 224 casual and auxiliary staff laid off in March “will need to be brought on again so that we can open our facilities,” Cullen added.

Throughout the reopening process, if any municipal staff members test positive for COVID-19 or are showing symptoms, the RMOW will be alerting anyone they came in contact with, “and more than likely we would be asking those people to self-isolate, depending on the person’s symptoms,” said director of human resources Denise Wood.

Further, RMOW employees with COVID symptoms will receive regular pay up until the time they’re tested, Wood added.

“If their test results come out that it is not COVID-related, then they would go onto their regular sick pay or without pay if they do not have sick time,” she said. “But if it is COVID then they continue regular pay.”

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Council voices support for Alta Lake Rd. project OFFICIALS GIVE FIRST READINGS TO PROPOSED ZONING AMENDMENT FOR HOUSING DEVELOPMENT SITE

BY BRANDON BARRETT ALTHOUGH POSSIBLE approval is still a ways away, Whistler’s elected officials all voiced support for a mixed-use housing project proposed for 5298 Alta Lake Road that has undergone significant changes since it was first seen by council.

“It’s important to bear in mind that the proponent could have come and gotten a development permit to build a hotel and some cabins that no one wanted there,” said Councillor Ralph Forsyth, referring to the uses permitted at the site under the current zoning, at Tuesday’s virtual council meeting.

“Is the deal perfect? I don’t know. But we’re getting a lot more than what we would have had they come in to build a hotel and cabins.”

The project initially put forward in September by Empire Club Development Corp. called for 15 employee-restricted units (eight of which were intended to be maintained by the proponent) and 22 market tourist-accommodation units, which would be zoned for short-term rental.

The proposal garnered significant opposition from Nita Lake residents, whose chief concerns surrounded the project’s density, loss of forestation and

possible impacts on traffic and views from across the lake.

The current proposal, first presented to council in February, is for 11 market touristaccommodation units, 11 market residential units and 21 employee-restricted units, one of which would be maintained by the developer for an on-site caretaker.

The purpose of Tuesday’s report to council was to consider first and second readings of a proposed amendment to the zoning at the site that would remove the hotel and cabin uses and to authorize staff to schedule another public hearing.

As RMOW senior planner Roman Licko explained, the intention of the existing zoning, adopted in 2002, was that any employee units/cabins built would be used by project staff, management and an artist in residence program—and would not have made it to the Whistler Housing Authority’s (WHA) waitlist.

“So we’re actually gaining 20 units of WHA housing that we wouldn’t have seen otherwise,” he said.

The revised proposal raises the number of market bed units by 24, to 88, and employee bed units by 44, to 72.

The RMOW has said the priority for the employee units would be on ownership, and would be for sale through the WHA waitlist at

approximately $425 a square foot. Municipal staff noted the project’s financial pro forma has been reviewed by an independent third party, which found it “to be reasonable.”

The revised proposal also comes with several additional community benefits that were not originally part of the project, including the dedication of a 0.51-hectare land parcel to the RMOW for future development, the construction, at no cost to the municipality, of a neighbourhood park on the site, and a new paved section of the Valley Trail connecting the south parcel line to the north. The RMOW would acquire 1.44 ha of riparian and natural treed buffer zones as well.

The proponent has also agreed to restore and relocate the historic Hillman cabin, also known as Toad Hall, to the new parklands, as well as replace the aging bridge over Gebhart Creek.

Still, there were lingering concerns among some in the neighbourhood, including former Citizen of the Year and one of Whistler’s original councillors, Garry Watson, who wrote a letter to council earlier this month questioning the need for more market housing in town.

“I strongly believe that there is really no current need for further market accommodation in Whistler that would

only create an increase in demand for more employee housing, and add to the traffic and occupancy problems in public accommodation already being experienced,” he wrote in his June 9 letter.

Coun. John Grills acknowledged the concerns, but believes the addition of much-needed employee restricted housing is ultimately “a big win” for the community.

“I think when you look at the increase of 24 bed units for market and the balance of what the community is getting, at this point it’s certainly worth taking forward to the public hearing stage.”

Mayor Jack Crompton also reiterated that the project is not a done deal, and encouraged the public to continue to give feedback.

“I hope it leads to an even better development,” he said.

RMOW staff is currently reviewing a traffic impact study and said that report, as well as an environmental assessment of the site, would be made available to the public.

There are also several conditions the proponent would have to meet before further consideration of the zoning amendment, including the registration of a green building covenant, receipt of development plans for the proposed park, and a housing agreement to regulate purchase rates and define qualified employees. n

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Whistlerites petition BC Transit to reconsider suspension of late-night service RMOW SAID IT WOULD REVIEW DECISION WITH TRANSIT OPERATOR

BY BRANDON BARRETT MORE THAN 900 Whistlerites have signed a petition calling on BC Transit to reconsider suspending late-night bus service this summer.

Reductions to late-night service begin July 1, with the final bus of the night departing the village at 12:20 a.m. The No. 5 Upper Village/Benchlands, the No. 7 Staff Housing, the No. 20 Cheakamus, and the No. 30 Emerald via Alpine routes are all affected.

The current schedule sees the last bus depart from the village at 3:15 a.m.

“I work late nights and I won’t be able to get home,” said petition author Benton Rider, who works at Earls and typically gets off between 1 and 2 a.m.

One of five seasonal schedule changes throughout the year, BC Transit said in a statement that the reductions reflect the drops in ridership the operator has seen during the pandemic.

“With ridership declines due to COVID19, BC Transit has been working with partners to match available service with demand,” the

statement read. “The late night service change is temporary, and will be revised once Phase 4 of the BC Restart plan is implemented.”

Councillor Jen Ford, council’s appointee to the Transit Management Advisory Committee, said BC Transit made the decision to suspend late-night service in

“I work late nights and I won’t be able to get home.”

- BENTON RIDER May, based on both existing and projected ridership figures.

“Obviously, things change pretty dramatically every day that COVID goes on, but at the time, there were only one or two people riding the bus at each hour of that late-night service,” Ford explained. “That really didn’t lend itself to being useful, but that said, it is a temporary change and it will be reviewed and can certainly be reconsidered if the demand is there.”

At press time, 967 people had signed

the petition, more than the 500 Rider was initially targeting.

Laurie Hannah, the Whistler Women’s Centre community program manager, worries that the decision will disproportionately impact Whistler’s younger population— and women in particular—at a time when domestic violence and sexual assault are already on the rise.

“It’s just putting a whole population at risk, and women as well,” she said, also highlighting the increased likelihood of drinking and driving without late-night transit. “There are just too many elements that I think they haven’t thought through.”

The Valley Trail has been home to a handful of disturbing incidents over the years, according to police. In January 2012, a woman was walking home from work near Myrtle Philip Community School when she reportedly noticed a man masturbating on the trail.

In January 2013, a woman was reportedly mugged between Blueberry Hill and the village, which occurred just days after another woman told police she witnessed a man who appeared to be masturbating on the Valley Trail near Lorimer Drive.

Most recently, in July 2019, a woman told Mounties a man “jumped from the bushes, pushed her and then closely followed her” while she was walking south to the Nesters Road retail plaza.

“That’s why we’re very protective of our bus service, because we do recognize that it is a very safe way home, it provides confidence for people not walking on the highway, not walking in dark areas, not walking alone,” noted Ford, who added that she would support an employer-led alternative to get late-night workers home safely.

In 2018, a pilot project offering free transit service between 6 p.m. and 8 a.m. on the No. 7 Staff Housing route was launched, with funding support from Whistler Blackcomb, Gibbons Life and the Fairmont Chateau Whistler.

A Whistler Blackcomb spokesperson wrote in an email that, with reduced operations on mountain and Dusty’s and Merlin’s not opening this summer, the latenight service is “likely not needed.”

Emails to Gibbons Life and the Fairmont were not returned by deadline.

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‘All Indigenous people deserve safety and justice’ WHISTLER GATHERS TO HONOUR NATIONAL INDIGENOUS PEOPLES DAY

BY MEGAN LALONDE AROUND 75 Whistlerites gathered in Whistler Olympic Plaza on Sunday, June 21, for a vigil marking National Indigenous Peoples Day. While the occasion is officially intended to be “a day for all Canadians to recognize and celebrate the unique heritage, diverse cultures and outstanding contributions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples,” this Indigenous Peoples Day took on a particularly somber tone: With an increasingly bright spotlight shining in recent weeks on police and the communities that disproportionately suffer at the hands of law enforcement—sparked largely by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis— Sunday’s gathering also served as a vigil to honour the eight Indigenous Canadians who have died in police incidents since April 8 of this year.

So when the small crowd clustered in a horseshoe formation on Sunday, protected from the day’s drizzly weather under the plaza’s overhang, eight easels, each displaying a face and a story, filled the space between attendees and vigil organizers Linda Epp and Steve Andrews: Eishia Hudson; Jason Collins;

Stewart Andrews; Regis Korchinski-Paquet; Everett Patrick; Chantel Moore; Rodney Levi; and Abraham Natanine.

Those who attended the vigil observed eight minutes of silence—one for each of the above-listed names.

Two hanging red dresses, a haunting symbol of the countless missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada, served as a backdrop.

“Together, we are part of a movement for social change, ” Epp, a First Nations activist and organizer of Whistler’s Sisters in Spirit Vigil, told the crowd.

“This is the day that we need to stand up, understand and support all Indigenous people of Canada. We need to take action and make this a stat holiday—with your voices, we can do this together, but let’s do it together.

Let’s not divide anymore, let’s only unite.”

She continued: “Together we need to forge a new path for positive change and reach for a new future where words of racism, systemic racism are no longer part of our actions. This is a vision that we hold dear to our hearts and let each and every one of us here today understand these words: All Indigenous people deserve safety and justice.”

Those gathered listened intently as Epp and Andrews took to the mic to eloquently share their experiences, before inviting

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A handful accepted the offer, using the opportunity to encourage locals to reflect on the Indian Act, to call out racism in local Facebook groups, or to simply state that, “First Nations communities in a First World country should not live in Third World conditions.”

During the vigil, Andrews reflected on the unfair advantages he, and other white Canadians, are afforded. “I have that privilege to not fear being shot dead when I open the door and see a police officer,” he said.

Andrews explained that organizers had invited the RCMP to attend the gathering, “to discuss the steps that they were taking

to address the problem,” but there were no representatives from the local detachment who attended in an official capacity.

Staff Sgt. Paul Hayes, operations NCO for both Whistler and Pemberton RCMP detachments, confirmed in an email that Whistler RCMP received an invitation to Sunday’s event, with final event arrangements forwarded to the detachment on Saturday, June 20.

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Naturespeak: Spring migration to Whistler— How was it?

BY KARL RICKER AND KRISTINA SWERHUN BIRD WATCHERS anticipate spring migration—the mass movement of birds toward their breeding grounds—like kids anticipate Christmas. This excitement is a big reason why birds are the most-studied organisms in Whistler. Thanks to a long-term volunteer bird-monitoring program birds are our best indicator species—tracking their behaviour and numbers can tell us a lot about what is happening in our environment.

In the spring period—April, May and June—we note the arrival date for about 100 migrant species (excluding year-round residents). We now have 23 years of data and have calculated an actual arrival date for the 100. Some years there are no shows, or missed sightings, but for those seen in 20 or more years, the average arrival date is fairly well fixed.

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of time. The bird that jumped the gun with a really early return was a green-winged teal, 43 days premature! Another 18 arrived on the calculated date, while 21 were behind schedule. The slowpoke is, so far, a purple finch, 35 days tardy. A surprise this year was that a great blue heron hung around all winter, finally leaving us in mid-spring.

Usually herons have a May 3 arrival date.

Some migrants have not shown up yet, with Wilson’s snipe, black swift, Cooper’s hawk, cedar waxwing and house finch to name the most unexpected delinquents.

Migration times often revolve around weather conditions, food availability and steadily increasing competition for resources. There are probably many other migration triggers—we humans just have not recognized them yet.

Some highlights of the migration saw Trumpeter swans at their highest total: 135 seen sitting on the lakes. The numbers of golden-crowned sparrows were two to threefold higher than previous years with 10 to 30 seen on each outing. There were also daily high counts on red-necked phalaropes (13), harlequin duck (6), hooded

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mergansers (14) and western gulls (3). The most abundant migrants were again Canada geese and American robins.

There’s good news for the spring bird count overall, which includes both migrant and resident birds. The number of species seen was on the rebound at 135, slightly above the 15-year average and above all five previous counts. However, between 2006 and 2014, the average for that period was 141, meaning that the last six years has pulled the average down to 134.

One new species was added to the local list: a rain-soaked bedraggled black turnstone was sitting miserably on the floatplane wharf, bringing Whistler’s

master checklist up to 268 species. Black turnstones spend the winter up and down the Pacific Coast and head to Alaska to breed, so this one probably got blown off course on route. Considering that our first checklist in 1995-96 had only 175 species, reflecting sightings back to as far as 1916, 93 additions over 25 years is quite remarkable.

This sets up for the early summer lull in bird activity. In late July, some migrants will be heading south. Look for small least sandpipers on the Fitzsimmons Creek delta.

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B.C. Regional Chief Terry Teegee calls for ‘overhaul’ of policing DESPITE SYSTEMIC RACISM CHIEF IS OPTIMISTIC FOR FUTURE

BY MIKE HOWELL / GLACIER SYNDICATED ANGER. FRUSTRATION. Sadness.

These are some of the emotions Terry Teegee, the Regional Chief of the B.C. Assembly of First Nations, has felt in recent weeks.

News reports present and past of Indigenous people being badly hurt or killed in incidents involving police in Canada have affected him deeply.

He lists off some of their names: Chantal Moore, Athabasca Chipewyan Chief Allan Adam, Dale Culver and his relative, Everett Riley Patrick, who died in hospital in April after being arrested by Prince George RCMP. “Across this country, we’re seeing it more and more with Indigenous peoples being injured or killed while being arrested,” he told Glacier Media in the first of a twopart series (pick up Pique next week for Part 2 or go online to www.piquenewsmagazine. com). “I’m so frustrated and dumbfounded.

When you’re arrested, you shouldn’t end up being dead.”

Teegee spoke to Glacier Media in advance of National Indigenous Peoples Day, which was on June 21. A member of the Takla Lake First Nation, Teegee spoke via Zoom from the Lheidli T’enneh reserve near Prince George, where he lives with his family.

The following interview was condensed and edited for length and clarity.

GLACIER: Needless to say, National Indigenous Peoples Day will take on a different flavour in the middle of a pandemic. I know that large gatherings are an important part of Indigenous culture. What are you hearing from Indigenous leaders about how to safely mark this day in 2020?

TERRY TEEGEE: I think there’ll be a lot of virtual celebrations that will be occurring that day.

will review the 45-year-old Police Act and look to modernize it. What do you say to that?

For many Indigenous peoples, not only in Canada and the United States, it’s a significant day. For Indigenous peoples, it’s really to take stock of where we’re at in this period in time, and look to see where we need to go, and speaking to the many injustices and the current state of affairs for Indigenous peoples in Canada—and really, I suppose, North America, as well.

TT: We’re seeing some progress in B.C. We have, I believe, six First Nations, Indigenous judicial courts, sentencing courts. They are more appropriate for some of the sentencing out there for Indigenous people that find themselves in a vicious cycle of getting arrested, going to jail. We do have a justice strategy—the B.C. First Nations justice strategy. They have adopted our suggested strategy. So I think there is significant movement and it’s a good case where we can see some significant change here in British Columbia.

GLACIER: Does the day take on a different resonance with what’s going on in B.C. and across the world, with people taking to the streets to condemn racism and calling for change in institutions, including police departments?

TT: It’s a significant day because of what we’re seeing with policing systems in the United States and in Canada, and how the police have racist policies, are enforcing racist policies, and in many respects, are profiling. The vast majority are minorities.

What we’re seeing today with the Black Lives Matter and the George Floyd ‘I can’t breathe’ movement... we totally sympathize because it’s cut from the same cloth.

The same thing is happening to Indigenous people here in Canada. The RCMP were here to enable law and order, which came from the colonial system. It wasn’t our law, our order. And in many respects, those laws were used to take us from our lands and put us on smaller reserves, and really enforce a colonial system. If you look at recent history, over the last 100 years, the police were used to take our children away.

As a matter of fact where I’m from, Dakelh Territory, in our Carrier language we call the RCMP ‘nilhchuk-un,’ which means those who take us away. The parents saw the RCMP as the ones who took our children away to residential school.

GLACIER: How would you describe the relationship between the B.C. Assembly of First Nations and Premier John Horgan’s government?

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GLACIER: If you were in charge of a police department, what would be your first order of business?

States where police forces are being disbanded and being torn down and being built back up to reflect the current realities in society today. Far too often right now, we’re seeing that police forces and the way they’re trained is very heavy on force, it’s very heavy on penalties and not enough on understanding the situation, or the people they’re arresting—whether they have mental health issues, addictions issues, the domestic disputes.

If it were up to me, there needs to be an overhaul, a systemic overhaul of the policing system, whether it’s the RCMP or municipal police. I think we’ve really got to understand what the job really means.

If you’re a police officer, what training do you need more than just the ability to arrest somebody? There are situations out there where right now they’re ill equipped.

TT: We’re seeing examples out of the United

GLACIER: The B.C. government says it

TT: Right now, the situation here is far better than other provinces. We’ve seen the adoption of Bill 41, the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. That’s really a significant movement in terms of commitment from a level of government that sees it necessary to change their relationship with Indigenous peoples. So I think there is some positive movement, which is great.

We’ve seen other legislation that will live up to the Declaration. That’s what we’re working on in our action plan, and part of it too would probably be some of the judicial policies out there that really need to be changed provincially and federally.

I believe right now there is a commitment from the federal government to legislate the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. It’s really important that they do this, and also live up to the fact that we have our own laws, we have our own sovereignty and those have to be recognized and lived up to as well. So provincially, I think we’re in a better situation than most

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reconciliation. How would you assess their commitments? Are they genuine?

regions. However, there [are] needed steps to carry on this momentum we have with the province of B.C. GLACIER: As you know, Indigenous people are overrepresented in prisons, in homeless counts, in overdoses. Why do you think that is, and what are you doing as a provincial leader to reverse those trends?

TT: We’re only five per cent of the population, and yet we’re overrepresented in incarceration rates. Women in jail—I believe in B.C. about 60 per cent of the population are Indigenous.

For men and boys, we’re about 40 per cent.

It’s really important to understand and know those situations and how we need to change it. It’s systemic change we need within how we treat Indigenous peoples.

Our communities need the resources for all facets of life: It’s economic development, it’s mental health, it’s health, it’s infrastructure, having high-speed internet in remote communities. We’re always lagging behind the norms of normal Canadian society. The situation we’re trying to create is for those First Nations to take over jurisdiction, take over their sovereignty, to implement their ways, really to assert their sovereignty and become self-sufficient.

GLACIER: All three levels of government have made commitments to

TT: The definition of reconciliation, let’s look at that: Who’s reconciling here? In many respects, it’s government, it’s colonialism that’s reconciling with the Indigenous people. I think we’ve seen some positive steps and progress. Many of our chiefs talk about implementing our own laws and we’re starting to see that with child welfare, here in this province and federally. We’re seeing it with environmental assessment law policies, the Environmental Assessment Act. I really saw ourselves co-writing that bill. So I think there has been some progress.

Is it enough? I don’t think it is enough right now. This journey is long. It’s going to be along hard journey and we need to do this together, and there needs to be significant commitment to what reconciliation means.

GLACIER: You’ve been Regional Chief since 2017. What inspired you to take on a leadership role?

TT: I saw an opportunity to speak up not only for the nations I represent, but all nations in B.C. My job is finding some semblance of justice. I wake up every day and I have to find some semblance of justice in speaking to and talking about the Forestry Act, or the judicial system, or child welfare. With all those conversations, the common denominator at any event that I’ve been asked to speak at—[earlier in June], I

spoke to a rally here in Prince George about Black Lives Matter—all of those cases, the common denominator I’m speaking to and recognizing is that there is an injustice.

GLACIER: Are you optimistic about the future for Indigenous people in this province and country?

TT: Yes. If I wasn’t optimistic, I wouldn’t be in this position. If I wasn’t optimistic, I wouldn’t be in these many meetings, I wouldn’t show up to the rallies—because those things are needed. Things need to be said. Our situation is far better right now than I remember when I was four or five years old. We’ve gone through, in the last couple of years, a significant step with the adoption of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act here in B.C. It’s been far better than I remember it in the last 40 years. Going forward, I would like to see a far different situation, not only for my children, but [also] for my great grandchildren and generations ahead, and now is a good opportunity to do that.

GLACIER: How would you like Canadians to mark National Indigenous Peoples Day [going forward]?

TT: I think for all Canadians, they should think about their relationships with Indigenous people. How do they see Indigenous peoples, the original peoples of this place we call Canada? How do they relate

to Indigenous peoples, to relationships with the First Nations, because every inch of this country has been inhabited or is a First Nations territory. If you’re in Vancouver, you’re in Coast Salish territory. What do you know about the Musqueam, Squamish and Tseil-waututh Nations-all those others nations and communities in the Greater Vancouver area? The Semiahmoo people?

What does the average Canadian know about Prince George, know about the history of the Carrier people here, where I’m from, where I live?

Understanding and knowing where you’re from is half the battle, but also too, understanding in our lived experience, we all experience racism. And whether the average Canadian knows it or not, it could be inadvertently—but understanding and accepting that racism is alive and well in Canada will bring us a long way to healing our relationship with not only Indigenous people, but with Black people, minorities.

Know and understand the lived experience of Indigenous people, and go out there and celebrate with Indigenous people.

I think it’s a significant day that many Indigenous peoples hold dear to their heart, and I think we celebrate with everybody.

And this year, we [saw] a reckoning of racism throughout Canada and British Columbia and United States. I think [Indigenous Peoples Day] would be a good day to begin a healing and understanding of this colonial relationship that we have with the Canadian government. n

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VOP council approves Portage Road food truck COUNCIL BRIEFS: PROPOSED PLANT-LIST CHANGES INSPIRE DEBATE; CANNABIS RETAIL POLICY AMENDMENT APPROVED; REQUEST TO REINSTATE RURAL DIVIDEND FUNDING

BY DAN FALLOON A NEW DINING option is coming to Portage Road.

At its regular meeting held via Zoom on June 16, Village of Pemberton (VOP) council approved a temporary use permit for a food truck for the lot next to The Pony Restaurant and The Bike Co. The applicant, Pemberton Portage Ltd., also owns the property on which those businesses sit.

The applicants were approved for a three-year permit, and have the option of requesting another three-year permit down the line. The permit applies only to the lot and does not allow the truck to operate in other locations. From here, the applicants must obtain a mobile vendor business licence and submit a Vancouver Coastal Health permit. As well, the applicants must revise their landscaping plan to adhere to FireSmart principles and propose a landcoverage alternative to bark mulch.

Councillor Amica Antonelli questioned staff’s request that the applicants find a new mulch option.

“Bark mulch is really plentiful and inexpensive locally, so I encourage them to look at their options, but when they’ve reviewed all that, bark mulch might still be a decent option,” she said. “I’m not sure I’d put that in there.”

Chief administrative officer (CAO) Nikki Gilmore said possible alternatives are gravel mulch, rock mulch, a combination of plant mulch and decorative rock mulch to reduce the fire risk.

“Bark mulch can dry out and with people discarding cigarettes, it can cause fires,” she said. “We don’t encourage the use of bark mulch.”

The truck would operate seasonally as weather permits, and would be open similar hours to The Pony, from noon to 8:30 p.m.

Thursday through Monday.

Staff first received the application last April, but the applicant requested to postpone processing until this year, indicating in late May that it was ready to proceed.

The VOP received five letters in support of the application.

PROPOSED PLANT-LIST CHANGES INSPIRE DEBATE It wasn’t quite the War of the Roses, but the most debated item of the meeting came as planner Joanna Rees presented a proposed update to the VOP’s plant list.

The list, first introduced in 2011 to replace the Village Vision Tree List, is a reference document for developers, landscapers and gardeners deciding what

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A food truck is coming to a vacant lot on Portage Road after Village of Pemberton council approved a temporary use permit.

Bylaw has been subsequently updated to include cannabis retail outlets, but does not have the minimum staff requirement.

Richman said that when the policy was first enacted, it was one that would be reviewed and amended as council learned more about how retail outlets operate.

GP opened in December, but found the requirement for two staff members was unnecessary. In his letter to Richman, De said the business had undertaken antirobbery measures such as installing panic buttons, security alarms and nine cameras around the store, which De feels would make one employee more than safe.

With a second cannabis store set to open nearby and an ongoing black market, De said keeping the requirement would eventually sink the business.

“If the rule is amended, we will be able to keep operating and provide jobs, but most importantly it will help fighting the black market. The more people buy at licensed stores, the more tax money comes to our government. It is a win-win situation for everyone,” De wrote.

In voicing her support for the amendment, Noble agreed with De’s assessment.

“We want to keep these shops viable because the black market hasn’t slowed down that much,” she said.

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After consulting with the Get Bear Smart Society and the Sea to Sky Invasive Species Council, Rees’ update proposed removing 18 varieties of deciduous trees, shrubs and ground covers that are considered wildlife attractants. Rees said later that some proposed deletions were suggested by local landscapers and gardeners.

Coun. Leah Noble objected to some of the suggested removals.

“As a landscaper, I see a lot of plants on here that don’t seem like animal attractants to me, like the wild roses [Nootka rose and Woods’ rose], kinnikinnick [or bearberry], and vine maples,” she said, adding that all four are native plants. “I find the list really overzealous. I would be opposed to banning all of these. It’s really nice having all these beautiful scented flowers all around our community.”

Antonelli was also wary of some changes, questioning whether a shrub such as the redtwig dogwood was a bear attractant.

“I would go back and try to be a bit more open to some of the native species,” she said.

Noble noted that dogwood could be an attractant “but only in mass plantings.”

“An occasional plant isn’t a big

attractant,” she said.

Council referred the list back to staff to get more information on the two rose varieties, the kinnikinnick and the vine maple, with Noble saying the latter is likely only an attractant to squirrels.

“I don’t think we’re in too much danger from squirrels,” she said.

Quipped Mayor Mike Richman: “If you grew up in Montreal, you’d be surprised.”

NON-MEDICINAL (RECREATIONAL) CANNABIS RETAIL POLICY AMENDED After reviewing its Non-Medicinal (Recreational) Cannabis Retail Policy, staff is recommending that council removes the requirement that retail cannabis stores have two staff members on site at all times.

Staff initiated the review in March after a request from GP Cannabis general manager Kostya De. Rees explained that the existing policy was approved before recreational cannabis became legal in October 2018 and, like several other municipalities, was overly cautious in preparation for the change. Rees noted that some regions, such as the District of Squamish, did not have this requirement.

She added that the Business Licence

REQUEST TO REINSTATE RURAL DIVIDEND FUNDING COMING During Gilmore’s CAO report, council pondered a letter requesting that the provincial government reinstate the Rural Dividend Program.

The program was scuttled last year as the government redirected funds to families affected by mill closures and curtailments.

The letter, drafted by Veronica Woodruff of Clear Course Consulting Ltd. on behalf of the Pemberton Economic Development Collaborative, asks that the government reconsider the decision, especially as rural communities continue to deal with the fallout of COVID-19.

“Although we appreciate that government intervention was essential in responding to the unexpected environmental and economic impacts on the forestry industry, we are respectfully requesting that your department reinstate these funds so that they can be accessed by all sectors again,” the draft reads.

Coun. Ted Craddock, who is part of the collaborative, said it was important to bring the letter to council before sending it off to Victoria.

“Most of us on the committee don’t feel comfortable making the decision without council’s input,” he said. n

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DAVID SNEDDON REHABBING AFTER SUFFERING BURNS IN MARCH HOUSE FIRE

BY DAN FALLOON FOR THE FIRST several days of consciousness after suffering burns to 29 per cent of his body, David Sneddon had some difficulty differentiating his nightmares from reality.

But once he fully returned, he talked to his long-term partner, Ann Chua, and his sister, Christy, over the phone.

“One day, I just came out of it,” the Pemberton resident said on June 13 from Vancouver’s GF Strong rehabilitation centre.

“I talked to both of them on the phone and I bawled my eyes out. I felt faith and cheer for the first time in what felt like forever.”

One of the first pieces of good news he learned was that Christy had organized a GoFundMe, now sitting at just over its goal of $20,000. The fundraiser, online at gofundme. com/f/help-david-and-ann-rebuild-after-thefire, is still active, and Sneddon said every penny helps, as the couple did not have tenant insurance to cover anything lost in the March 29 Larch Street blaze.

“We lost everything. We don’t even have a spoon,” he said. “My girlfriend just bought a new bed that we have to buy sheets for.

She has to buy towels for the bathroom, cooking utensils, the list goes on and on and on. We have nothing, so $20,000 sounds like a lot of money, but it goes pretty fast when you have to replace everything.”

In addition to the couple’s needs that burned up, there were some personal items lost as well. Sneddon, an avid skier, just bought a new pair of Mindbender skis.

“They were still in the plastic,” Sneddon said. “I had a very large graphic novel collection and quite a few collectables that were worth some money and poof.”

Pemberton Fire Rescue Chief Robert Grossman said on June 17 that the cause of the fire was still under investigation.

Material possessions aside, Sneddon is grateful to be alive after Chua pulled him out of the house. He underwent a series of skin grafts, and recently had pins in his fingers, spanning from his knuckles to his fingertips, removed.

“It’s a real long, slow process,” he said.

“I have to stretch. I have to make sure I work all the different sites where they can have scar tissue built up.”

Shortly before talking with Pique, Sneddon had regained some independence via a walker, giving him the ability to walk outside around the parking lot and to a nearby park. He had to pass a 56-point test with a score of at least 35, and he overshot the minimum with a 44.

“It was life-changing,” he said. “I was in a wheelchair, but I don’t have [full use of my] hands, so the only way I was able to use the wheelchair was with my feet, so

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I was speeding around the whole hospital backwards and making everybody laugh.”

Learning to use his hands again has been a lengthy process for Sneddon, an executive chef.

“It takes a really long time because the skin grafts pull,” he said. “Two of them on my left hand are just strange. They’re not fingers yet. Basically, I have two fingers on each hand, and now that they took the pins out, I’m starting to use the right hand a lot for pinching things like a fork or picking something up.

“One of the things they say to you is, ‘Do your exercises and your finger bends,’ and all that, but one of the best things you can do is use it.”

With grafts on his face, Sneddon’s diet has been restricted, with the hospital often serving him a side of gravy regardless of the entrée to make it more feasible to eat, if not necessarily appealing. Since moving to GF Strong, though, nurses have been happy to heat up cans of food sent to him by Christy if he requested.

“For breakfast, I had a can of Chef Boyardee. It’s what I wanted. I woke up and I was hungry. I didn’t want an egg and a muffin,” he said. “I have enough food in here to start a grocery store.”

Since expanding his world with his walker, Sneddon has kept his spirits up by visiting with other patients, including a woman who lost both legs and an arm, but is “happy all the time.”

Socializing again has been welcome, as it’s been difficult for Chua to come visit as, on top of pandemic precautions, she does not drive and has returned to work, while his sister could not travel from Toronto because of flight restrictions.

Sneddon, noting that his recovery would continue after his release, hoped he would be back in Pemberton by early July.

“I’m really close to walking, and once I’m walking, they don’t have a lot of reasons to keep me,” he said. n

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As a result of this issue not being more central to the conversation of how we got here, how we can recover, and how to move forward, even less has been said about its stated corollary: that with fully

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two-thirds of emergent human diseases now zoonotic (or originating in wildlife— recalling headlines of the past few years you’ll doubtless recognize chikungunya, Zika, Ebola, Nipah, and swine and bird flu), this is only the beginning, and COVID-19 will be followed by more and even deadlier disease outbreaks.

The harsh reality of “more and worse” as a new normal might be too much for humanity to bear, let alone contemplate, at the moment, yet it is a distinct possibility.

In fact, it may already be happening.

If you’re an epidemiologist, medical professional, agronomist, or just a geek like me who subscribes to ProMED-mail—the global Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases database that sends out daily alerts of plant, animal (including human)

eastern provinces of North Kivu and Ituri, 3,463 cases have resulted in 2,280 deaths—a 65-per-cent mortality rate. But just as this outbreak smoulders to a conclusion, a new one has erupted in the western part of the country caused by a version of the virus genetically unrelated to the first. New hantavirus outbreaks in both the Americas and Siberia are also causing concern.

Climate change is behind a lot of emergent disease. In particular, warming temperatures are allowing many species of ticks to expand their ranges, and with them, the cornucopia of diseases they carry. For example, outbreaks of both Powassan and bourbon virus in the U.S.; a massive outbreak of tick-borne encephalitis across Siberia, a region that again this year is seeing record +30˚C temperatures; Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, a deadly tick-borne disease usually confined to summer, has already claimed 15 lives in Turkey and cropped up in Spain, forcing authorities already reeling from COVID-19 to adopt new containment measures.

France is dealing with a novel outbreak of tick-borne encephalitis linked to raw-milk goat cheese: climate-driven increases in the number of ticks carrying encephalitis leads to more tick-bitten livestock, and infected livestock pass on the disease through their milk—a whole new food hazard for humans. Beyond that, hundreds of thousands of pigs have been culled by Nigerian farmers in response to an explosion of African swine fever. Bulgaria had to destroy 80,000 chickens because of an outbreak of avian flu.

Things are no better on the plant front.

Last week, a potato blight warning was issued by the Irish National Meteorological Service when a forecast of rain coupled with warming

[T]here’s another global pandemic to rival COVID-19, and it’s destroying the world’s most widely eaten fruit—bananas. disease outbreaks/updates—you will have had more than a hint of this. While the rest of the world has been doomscrolling COVID-19 data for the past few months, ProMED-mail has been tracking a range of other outbreaks in humans, livestock, crops, and wild animals and plants. Even a tiny sampling of things you aren’t hearing about that have come across my desk in the past few weeks will suffice to demonstrate the tenuous nature of global public health—even if COVID-19 were to disappear overnight.

To start, in Canada we’ve seen outbreaks of whooping cough in Nunavut and a massive recall of pet food that caused E. coli infections in the humans who handled it. India is battling a form of cattle-tohuman-transmitted tuberculosis caused

by Mycobacterium bovis. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has seen an outbreak of bubonic plague and is also suffering two unrelated Ebola outbreaks. Since the April 2020 start of an Ebola epidemic in the

temperatures heightened the threat of blight for the whole country. Lovers of chai tea worry as an undiagnosed disease destroys the cardamom crop in the Himalaya. Sugar cane is being affected by disease in Fiji, as are oats in the U.S. Finally, there’s another global pandemic to rival COVID-19, and it’s destroying the world’s most widely eaten fruit—bananas. Deadly TR4, a.k.a. “Panama Disease,” has rapidly spread to all bananagrowing countries in Africa, Asia, the South Pacific, and Central and South America, forcing the banana-export industry to change how bananas are farmed (currently a global monoculture of a single susceptible cultivar called “Cavendish”).

Coming out of annus horribilis 2020, not only will our view of pandemic risk have changed to ever-present, but bananas may never be—nor taste—the same.

Leslie Anthony is a science/environment writer and author who holds a doctorate in connecting the dots. ■

OUTSIDER

Dog days for Doglotion.com BIDDING FAREWELL TO ONE OF WHISTLER’S ONLINE FREESKI INSTITUTIONS AFTER 18 YEARS , one of Whistler’s most edgy, humourous and piss-taking online ski publications, Doglotion.com, has called it quits. The orchestrators of the nowinfamous Gaper Day are moving on with their lives, but not without a proper tribute in Pique. I caught up with Doglotion’s mastermind Jamie Bond to talk about the

BY VINCE SHULEY lasting legacy his website hopes to leave upon Whistler and the world of freeskiing.

PIQUE: You titled your final website splash page “Game Over. Thanks for playing.”

Why not slide another couple of coins into the Doglotion arcade cabinet?

JAMIE BOND: It almost did say “Insert coins to continue” or something, but that might have been a bit deceiving. The farewell post wasn’t meant to be a callout for emergency sponsorship. I didn’t receive any calls from sponsors saying, “Hey, we can’t afford you.”

It was more of an imminent realization that people and companies are going to need to be pretty creative with their dollars this year and Doglotion didn’t need more of them.

Rather than drawing it out by asking people to insert more coins, I added some flavour and drama to it and just ended it, hard stop.

PIQUE: Doglotion has given a lot to the

DOG DAYS ARE OVER Doglotion.com calls it a day after 18 years of good times and Gaper Day shenanigans.

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freeski community, in Whistler and beyond. Has it also given back to you and the contributors?

JB: The whole point of Doglotion was spreading the stoke, keeping it real and making sure everyone is having a blast. But it was never really configured to be much of a business. It just kind of grew into a monster.

That was awesome because it expanded its reach into the freeskiing world. But it was never meant to be a “real job” nor did it pay like a real job. So eventually we thought that we’d had a good run and we can move on to some new adventures ourselves.

PIQUE: Doglotion.com germinated from the seed Gaper Day. Were the two always inextricably linked?

JB: Gaper Day and Doglotion had the same mission: Get stoked and don’t take skiing too seriously. Dedicating a new web community to the culture of Gaper Day made sense. We didn’t do it because we wanted to write about things necessarily, we just saw it as a fun way to augment the stoke. Our co-founder Andre (Charland) was in web software at the time and said he had a platform that would work like a magazine and web community. This was all before Facebook and YouTube and about the same time that snowboarding. com was brewing. We got really fired up and excited and made sure to give it a really silly name in order to stick to our ethos.

athletes were the ones doing all the amazing things so we were sharing what they were doing as much as we could. Back then, there was less going on across the Internet and sharing content wasn’t nearly as easy as it is now. So these cool videos and stories needed a little nudge. Trip reports were actually an exciting thing for the audience, rather than a forum to smack talk about blowing up the spot. It didn’t matter about showing new places, there wasn’t the volume of people to have any tangible effect on the experience.

Even the Duffey Lake Road kind of had a secret vibe to it back then.

PIQUE: You had some notable talent come through the ranks of Doglotion.

How did the contributors help shape the website’s culture?

JB: When we wrote the farewell thank-yous for our final post, it was awesome to hear back from a bunch of the writers and photographers who referenced Doglotion as a stepping stone for their careers. Jordan Manley was a kid photographer when we started stealing all his photos for the site, but he was cool with it because he was a buddy of ours.

We had a policy of anything goes, so a lot of writers used that liberty to develop their own style because there weren’t any editors to say what you can and can’t say. It was also a forum for “orphan” content, such as gear reviews, that didn’t belong on other websites and magazines because of some political brand bias.

PIQUE: The Whistler freeski athletes seemed to embrace the movement when the Doglotion momentum picked up. How did that evolve over the years?

PIQUE: Were there any pieces of controversial content that got you in trouble over the years?

JB: Being based in Whistler, it was already a huge hub for the freeski community. The

JB: I regularly get emails or phone calls from ex-pro skiers that I haven’t heard from in about

five years or so. After a few minutes of beating around the bush they’ll say something like: “Jamie, do you mind removing my interview from the Internet? It’s the first thing that comes up when you Google my name, and damn, does it ever make me look like an unemployable loose cannon.” It may have just been the style we went after 15 years ago, but some of that content and opinion probably isn’t as acceptable now.

After a few years, we did become the unofficial ringleaders of Gaper Day. When it grew really big, I would start to get calls from Whistler Blackcomb Operations making requests as to how Gapers should behave. It was a bit of a lost cause because there’s no way that one person with a megaphone has any sway over thousands of partying skiers, but it was a nice pat on the back to think we were the best chance of arresting control.

PIQUE: It must have been a blow to not give 2020 the Gaper Day sendoff that it deserved…

JB: I thought Gaper Day was invincible, but I guess COVID-19 proved that there are a lot of things in this world that are not invincible. I didn’t want Doglotion to live in mediocrity. It’s been an encyclopedia for freeskiing for almost 20 years so I won’t be taking it offline—I’ll continue to fund the web hosting so people can look back for a laugh. But what I do know is that Gaper Day won’t die, even if Doglotion is chilling behind a “game over” sign.

Jamie Bond wanted to extend a massive thank-you to everyone who made Doglotion. com happen for the last 18 years. For questions, comments or suggestions for The Outsider, email vince@vinceshuley.com or Instagram @whis_vince. ■

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FEATURE STORY

1. The Resort Municipality of Whistler is moving ahead with a project to provide more public washrooms in Whistler Village this year, with two new buildings planned for Olympic Plaza and the Lost Lake PassivHaus. How much toilet paper did the Olympic Plaza washrooms run through in 2018?

A) 242 kilometres C) 424 kilometres

B) 10,024 rolls D) Five Costco trips worth

2. Municipal officials are working with the province on a dock management strategy for Whistler’s lakes. How many unauthorized docks did the muni count during a recent unofficial survey of Alta Lake?

A) 94

B) 42

C) 105

D) 96

3. In late 2019, Maclean’s Magazine ranked Whistler No. 1 in impaired driving offences nationwide, but didn’t factor in the resort’s visitor or seasonal population. Pique reporter Brandon Barrett crunched the numbers to come up with Whistler’s actual rank. What is it?

A) 2nd

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B)12th

C) 8th

D) 17th

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4. A fire at the Tyndall Stone Lodge in February sparked déjà vu for business owners renting space in the building, including Whistler favourite Purebread. While the fire proved relatively minor, a previous blaze in the same building knocked businesses out for months. What year was it?

A) 2009

B) 2010

C) 2013

D) 2006

5. In September 2019, Whistlerites joined millions around the world in a global climate strike. How many were estimated to march in Whistler?

A) About 200 C) About 12,000

B) 1988

C) 2002

D) 1996

7. The Citizen of the Year award, presented each year at the Whistler Chamber’s Whistler Excellence Awards, is touted as the resort’s oldest honour. Whistler’s original school bus driver Bob Walker was the first to receive it. Who was the second?

A) Walter Zebrowski C) Al Niven

B) Dick Fairhurst D) Jenny Busdon

8. Like it has with almost every other government and organization, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a drastic impact on Resort Municipality of Whistler finances. How much was cut from project spending in a recent update?

A) $12.7 million C) $13.7 million

B) $20.7 million D) $19.8 million

9. Regional transit has long been a goal of governments throughout the Sea to Sky, but the initiative stalled out in 2019 after the province rejected a proposed funding model.

How much is a regional transit system expected to cost?

A) $9.31 million C) $4.81 million

A) Nicklaus North Golf Course B) Whistler Cay C) Rainbow D) Whistler Village

B) About 600 D) About 450

6. Whistler’s climate strike was organized in part by then high-school student Jade Quinn-McDonald, who Mayor Jack Crompton would later nominate for the resort’s Citizen of the Year award. When was the honour first awarded?

A) 1969

10. Whistler’s bears have been getting lots of attention so far this summer, with videos of black bears chasing rabbits (successfully) and coyotes (less so) popping up on social media as of late. While black bears are a common sight in the valley, a residential visit from a grizzly earlier this spring caused some anxiety for residents. Where was the grizzly first spotted?

1) C. An estimated 707,000 people used the plaza washrooms in 2018, according to the RMOW. 2) D. Officials tallied 96 unauthorized docks on Alta Lake. 3) D. While Pique’s tally put Whistler at No. 17 nationally, the resort’s impaired driving rate was still three times the national average. 4) C. The 2013 fire kept some tenants out of the building for more than a year. 5) B. About 600 people marched in the rain from Lost Lake to municipal hall on Sept. 27, 2019. 6) A. 7) C. Niven was one of Whistler’s first volunteer firefighters. 8) A. In total, 96 of 164 projects were proposed for amendment, with total 2020 proposed project spending reduced by $12.7 million (from $46.3 million to $33.7 million). 9) D. A study released in 2017 estimated the total costs of implementing regional transit in the Sea to Sky to be about $3.31 million.

10) B. The bear was reportedly seen on Crabapple Drive in Whistler Cay. While grizzly sightings in the valley are rare, officials expect them to increase in number as the population rebounds.

B) $6.71 million D) $3.31 million

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Whistler and the Sea to Sky community.

We wouldn’t have made it without the support of our community!

We are now open for pints and flights with an all new limited seating capacity on our sunny wide open patio!

Our Takeaway Window is now available with extended hours 12-8 and we’re filling growlers again! See you soon in Whistler’s, Funky Town, aka Function Junction.

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There is plenty of storage in the carport and storage shed.

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15-1442 VINE

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Rare opportunity for a 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 3 storey townhouse with single car garage in sought after Pioneer Junction!

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Enjoy all day sunshine from this beautiful 3 bedroom plus den end unit located on the dyke just steps to park, lake and school!

One of Pemberton’s favourite complexes!

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7G-3031 ST. ANTON WAY

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This cozy 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home makes you feel like you are hiding away in the trees. Across from Whistler golf course, only a short scenic walk to Whistler Village, and just up the road from Lakeside park. A great place to cool off on those hot summer days. There are 2 balcony’s in this unit as well, which make you feel even more like you are in a tree house.

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9-7001 NESTERS ROAD

$459,000

Pemberton’s Benchlands, ready and waiting for you to build your dream home!

The Pemberton Benchlands stands apart from other developments due to its close proximity to town, affording you and your family a lifestyle that facilitates walking and biking. Surround yourself with nature, the freedom of the mountains and not sacrifice any of the convenience of being in town.

Canada Day special! For 2 weeks only priced to sell at $459.000

ALPINE MEADOWS

SUNRIDGE PLATEAU

5 WEDGEMOUNT

$995,000

Fabulous 3 bedroom end unit townhome located in Alpine Meadows. Steps to the Meadow Park, Whistler Secondary, Alpine Cafe, Green Lake, golfing, and more! Updated with new high-quality windows, new bathrooms, new stainless steel appliances, new countertops, gas fireplace and more. Enjoy the warmth of this well cared for family home.

Lowest monthly fees in Whistler. One bedroom, one bathroom end unit in Nester’s Blackcomb Condos.

3850 SUNRIDGE COURT

$7,495,000

This charming “Chateau in the Mountains” is situated on a quiet cul de sac offering expansive mountain views. Built of the highest quality, featuring spectacular vaulted ceilings and expansive 3-story staircase with unique “design of the eye”, providing a focal point in the home. This is Mountain Elegance waiting for you and it is all within walking distance to Whistler Village!

PEMBERTON

9410 PORTAGE ROAD

PEMBERTON

$549,000

Amazing opportunity! This 2 bedroom cottage with Airstream guest house sits on .37 of an acre in the heart of Birken BC. Quaint and turn key! Come see!

#202 PORTAGE STATION

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Over 1800 square feet of living space in the heart of Pemberton. 3 bedrooms/ 3 bathrooms over 2 levels. A must see hot buy!

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PEMBERTON

1424 POPLAR STREET

$885,000

A fantastic family home on a quiet street within walking distance of all Pemberton has to offer. Offering 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms over 2 levels.

This home also offers an easy option for an in-law suite. The perfect multi-generational home.

PEMBERTON

2018 TIYATA BLVD

$879,000

Ready for occupancy! Modern, clean and bright, this is the perfect family home!

Construction is just wrapping up on this stunning 3 bedroom family property that is situated literally steps from the elementary school and down town core. A quality home, in a convenient location, close to all Pemberton has to offer.

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404 - 7445 FRONTIER ST, PEMBERTON

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Searching for a luxurious care-free three-bedroom home in beautiful Pemberton? Here it is. This absolutely stunning penthouse offers a gorgeous living area opening up to your private 1600 sq ft patio showcasing majestic Mt Currie. Highlights include a 10’ polished stone kitchen island, 10’ ceilings, dimmable lighting throughout and airconditioning. The master-bedroom features a spacious en-suite bathroom with two sinks, a 5’ deep soaker tub and separate shower. A second bedroom features an ensuite bathroom as well, and striking mountain views. Other features include a large laundry/mudroom, additional private storage locker, 2 oversized secured underground parking stalls & bike storage.

HIGHLAND LODGE

409-2117 WHISTLER ROAD

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$659,000

$340,000

Highland Lodge! A little piece of Whistler’s history and the home of the famous Rimrock Café. A short and easy walk to Whistler’s Creekside base for skiing and biking makes this the perfect home base for your adventures. Not to mention the access to the Valley Trail, lakes, shops and some of the best restaurants in town is at your doorstep. Let this studio with a lofted bedroom be your weekend retreat or investment property with nightly rental allowed; or a little bit of both! Just upgraded with a brand new bathroom, paint and flooring throughout. This gem is in excellent condition and ready to move in!

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CREEKSIDE

2220 LAKE PLACID ROAD

Location, Recreation, Relaxation. This amazing home and property is just a short walk to the Creekside Gondola, pubs, restaurants, and shopping, or an even shorter stroll to Alpha Lake to enjoy a relaxing paddle or swim. Peak to Creek, Dave Murray Downhill, or Franz’s Run: take your pick to finish your incredible ski day and head home and catch the game while you soak in your hot tub on your covered deck. A year round home, a luxurious idyllic getaway, or corporate retreat, this home ticks all of the boxes and the location suits easy access to and from Vancouver and the airport.

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LOT 10

SOLD full asking price $1,235,000 8 min north of Pemberton lies the 14 Estate lot community of Walkerville. Perfectly situated to offer privacy in nature while being a close distance to shopping and amenities. Sitting on 2.6 acres Access some of Pemberton’s finest trails right from your front door, 10 min trail walk to Mosquito Lake,25 min drive to the popular Anderson Lake, 5 min to the Duffy Lake turn off or stay home and enjoy isolation.

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Spacious 2 bedroom 2 bath Condominium in Greyhawk. One level of bright open floor area in one of Whistlers most sought after neighborhoods, Blueberry Hill. Located on the second floor this unit is tucked in behind tall cedars providing privacy on the large SE facing deck. In suite laundry, stainless appliances, gas fireplace, built in speakers. Located within walking distance to the village.

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227-1490 PEMBERTON VALLEY LODGE

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One bedroom second floor unit in award winning Pemberton Valley Lodge. Owners enjoy 120 usage while benefiting from the strong financial return as well as a share in the adjacent vacant lot. The Pemberton Valley Lodge is extremely well maintained by in house management making this an ideal investment.

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Nicely upgraded 2 bedroom/1 bath townhouse in Eaglecrest. Property features updated kitchen with stainless steel appliances, wood flooring, fresh paint and lighting throughout. The large “storage room” next to the front entry was converted to bedroom or it could be a perfect home office/den. ** Eaglecrest is a “market employee” complex. This means that anyone can own but property occupier must be working in Whistler.

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7293 FITZSIMMONS ROAD

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A rare opportunity on Fitzsimmons Road South! The lot, almost 9200 square feet, backs on to the highly desired Fitz Creek. The cabin, one of Whistler ‘s originals, is well taken care of: rent it, or live in it while you plan your dream home. Virtually, just a 5 minute walk to everywhere you’ll want to be: Lost Lake Trails, Whistler Village and Blackcomb Gondola.

There is no other opportunity in Whistler quite like this one!

FEATURE STORY

1. Canada is known for its abundance of lakes and rivers.

What percentage of the planet’s total freshwater is found in Canada?

A) 16 per cent B) 4 per cent C) 30 per cent D) 20 per cent 2. This Canadian province is home to the largest concentration of garter snakes in the world—often described as a “snake orgy.” Where are the Narcisse snake pits located?

A) Manitoba B) Saskatchewan C) Alberta D) Ontario 3. While Whistler may be the hands-down best ski resort in Canada (not that we’re biased), it’s far from the first to have been built. In what town was the first Canadian ski resort built in 1917?

A) Saint-Sauveur, Que. B) Rossland, B.C. C) Banff, Alta.

D) Ste. Marguerite, Que.

4. What year did ‘O Canada’ become this country’s official national anthem?

A) 1880 B) 1939 C) 1980 D) 1964 5. Which of the following popular games was invented in Canada?

A) Scrabble B) Trivial Pursuit C) Monopoly D) Yahtzee 6. Pique celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2019. What was Canada’s first newspaper?

A) Montreal Gazette B) Gazette officielle du Quebec C) Ottawa Citizen D) Halifax Gazette 7. Although its 19th annual edition was cancelled due to COVID-19, this B.C. town has been holding its annual Elvis Festival every year for nearly two decades.

A) Penticton B) Kelowna C) Prince Rupert D) Duncan

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8. The Canada/U.S. border runs right through the middle of this small town—more specifically, right through the middle of its library, designated by a strip of black tape.

Which two towns does this library straddle?

A) Derby Line, Vt./Stanstead, Que. B) Campobello Island, N.B./Lubec, Maine C) Stewart, B.C./Hyder, Alaska D) Detroit, Mich./Windsor, Ont. 9. Who is Laura Secord?

A) An Oscar-winning actress B) A famous chocolatier C) The first female Governor General D) A war heroine 10. Canadians, for the most part, love dogs. While we’d recommend heading to a local shelter if you’re looking to give a furry friend a forever home, this breed of dog was named the most popular in Canada by the Canadian Kennel Club in 2019.

A) Golden retriever B)Labrador retriever C) French bulldog D) German shepherd

1) D. According to the Government of Canada, less than half of this water—about seven per cent of the global supply—is “renewable.” 2) A. 3) D. According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, “The first professional ski instructor in Canada, Emile Cochand, was brought to the Laurentians from Switzerland in 1911. By 1917 he had built the first Canadian ski resort, Chalet Cochand, in Ste-Marguerite, Qué.” 4) C. Although “O Canada” has served as the de facto national anthem since 1939, the song was officially proclaimed as the country’s national anthem in 1980. 5) B. The game was created in December 1979 in Montreal by Canadian Chris Haney, a photo editor for Montreal’s The Gazette, and Scott Abbott, a sports editor for The Canadian Press. After the pair found pieces of their Scrabble game missing, they decided to create their own. 6) D. 7) A. For nearly two decades, dozens of Elvis impersonators storm into the lakeside town each June to put their Elvis-impersonating skills to the test onstage. 8) A. 9) D. Laura Secord is heralded as a Canadian heroine of the War of 1812, after she walked approximately 32 kilometres out of American-occupied territory to warn British soldiers of an impending American attack. 10) B. German shepherds were named the second most popular breed, while golden retrievers rounded out the top three.

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1) Which federal party failed to win a single seat in Canada’s 2019 election?

A) Bloc Québécois B) Green Party C) People’s Party of Canada D) New Democratic Party 2) When Confederation occurred on July 1, 1867, which provinces made up the Dominion of Canada at that time?

A) New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the Province of Canada B) Upper Canada, Lower Canada and New Brunswick C) Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia D) The Province of Canada, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.

3) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau landed in hot water last fall after old photos surfaced of him in blackface. The scandal broke after Time Magazine published a 2001 yearbook photo from what Vancouver private school Trudeau once taught at?

A) Pear Tree Elementary B) West Point Grey Academy C) Crofton House School D) St. George’s Senior School 4) Which provincial health officer was paid tribute by famed designer John Fluevog with a pair of her own custom shoes during the COVID-19 pandemic?

A) PEI’s Dr. Heather Morrison B) B.C.’s Dr. Bonnie Henry C) Alberta’s Dr. Deena Hinshaw D) New Brunswick’s Dr. Jennifer Russell 5) When Victoria extended B.C.’s state of emergency on May 27 another two weeks, it became the longest state of emergency in the province’s history. What caused the second longest?

A) The Second World War B) Vancouver Island earthquake of 1946 C) Port Alberni tsunami of 1964 D) Wildfires of 2018

telecoms executive who was arrested in Vancouver on a U.S. warrant 18 months ago to create friction between China and Canada. Which telecoms executive was he referring to?

A) China Telecom chairman Chang Xiaobing B) UTStarcom CEO Tim Ti C) ZUK Mobile founder Alex Chén Y D) Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou 7) President Donald Trump did Canada-U.S. relations no favour during the COVID-19 pandemic when he: A) Suggested stationing U.S. troops at the border B) Criticized Trudeau’s hair C) Ordered U.S. company 3M to stop shipment of millions of N95 respirators to Canada D) A and C 8) Which Canadian province was the first to offer universal healthcare in 1947?

A) Ontario B) British Columbia C) Saskatchewan D) Nova Scotia 9) NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was ejected from the House of Commons in June for calling Bloc Québécois MP Alain Therrien a racist for not supporting an NDP motion to do what?

A) Signal support for the Black Lives Matter movement B) Increase infrastructural funding to vulnerable First Nations communities C) Tackle systemic racism in the RCMP D) Create a task force on race and inequality 10) After a significant and costly diplomatic push, Canada lost its bid for a coveted seat on the United Nations Security Council earlier this month. Which nations won the two available temporary seats instead?

A) India and Malaysia B) Norway and Ireland C) Australia and Kenya D) Brazil and Hungary

6) Earlier this month, China’s envoy to Canada accused the U.S. government of using the case of a senior Chinese

1) C. 2) A. 3) B. 4) B. 5) D. 6) D. After landing in Vancouver in late 2018, Wanzhou was arrested on a U.S. extradition request in connection with the alleged defrauding of multiple financial institutions in breach of U.S. sanctions against Iran. 7) D. 8) C. Saskatchewan made hospital visits universal in 1947, then expanded this program to include regular doctor visits in 1962. 9) C. Singh stood by his comments after being kicked out of the House, saying that, despite several recent police-involved incidents of violence towards people of colour, there have not been any changes to federal policing in Canada. 10) B. With 130 and 128 votes respectively, Norway and Ireland won the two available seats. Canada earned 108 votes.

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1) The fiddlehead fern is the one of the only native Canadian plants that has achieved commercial success as a vegetable.

What time of year are fiddleheads best picked?

A) Early March to early April B) Late April to early June C) Late October to late November D) Late August to early October 2) Tim Hortons finally put this increasingly popular ingredient on its menus this month.

A) Beyond Beef B) Gluten-free bread C) Quinoa D) Almond milk 3) Canadians love this junk food product, launched in 1937 in both Canada and the U.S., so much that they consume 55 per cent more of it per year than American consumers.

A) Campbell’s Tomato Soup B) Kraft Dinner C) Ruffles All-Dressed chips D) Hershey’s Bridge Mixture 4) Despite its name, it was actually a Greek immigrant to Canada who invented this dish.

A) California roll B) Philadelphia roll C) Hawaiian pizza D) New England clam chowder 5) What has been the fastest growing segment of new users on Skip the Dishes, one of Canada’s largest food delivery apps, since the pandemic began in March?

A) 18-29 years old B) 30-39 years old C) 40-49 years old D) 65 and up 6) Canadian farmers are facing a significant surplus of potatoes due to the COVID-19 pandemic. About two-thirds of the 4.8 million tonnes of potatoes grown last year were intended to end up at processing plants, where they would be turned into what?

A) Instant mashed potatoes B) French fries, hash browns and other frozen potato restaurant products C) Vodka D) Potato chips 7) True of False: Canada does not have any Michelin starred restaurants?

8) Where is peameal bacon said to have originated?

A) Toronto B) Montreal C) Halifax D) Hamilton 9) Which of these Cadbury candy bars originated in Canada?

A) Dairy Milk B) Mr. Big C) Crispy Crunch D) Caramilk

10) This successful Vancouver restaurateur was consulted on developing the revamped menus of Steeps and Christine’s, Whistler Blackcomb’s mountain-top restaurants.

A) David Hawksworth B) Vikram Vij C) Hilary Prince D) Umberto Menghi

1) B. 2) D. 3) B. 4) C. Hoping to draw customers to his Chatham, Ont. pizzeria, Greek immigrant Sam Panopoulos started adding pineapple to his pies in 1962. 5) D. Canadian retirees make up the fastest growing demographic on the app, which might help explain why Skip the Dishes has reported that 5 p.m. is the new “rush hour” for orders. 6) B. 7) True.

8) A. Toronto’s William Davies Company, one of Canada’s earliest and largest meat packers, is usually credited with creating this blue-collar breakfast dish, which originally involved rolling wet cured pork loin in crushed yellow peas. These days, cornmeal is typically used in its place.

9) D. While there are similar bars sold under different names in other countries, Caramilk bars are only produced at Toronto’s Gladstone Chocolate Factory. 10) A. Hawksworth is now in his fifth year hosting a popular pop-up lunch series at Steeps, and along with helping transform WB’s on-mountain culinary offerings, has worked with the ski resort to train chefs at his eponymous Vancouver restaurant.

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1. The Audain Art Museum hosted a special exhibit that ran until January this year highlighting three years of one artist’s life. Who was that Canadian artist?

A) Jeff Wall B) Thom Thomson C) Bill Reid D) Emily Carr 2. Canadian indie-pop star Grimes welcomed a baby boy into the world this year alongside partner and tech billionaire Elon Musk. What was that baby’s unusual name?

A) X Æ A-12

B) Grimes Jr.

C) Grelon

D) X AE A-XII

3. A long-time Whistler photography contest called Deep Winter was put on hold this year. What’s the name of the photography event that quickly came together to take its place?

A) Winter Photo Frenzy C) Icy Shots

B) Uprising D) Snap It Up

4. Which iconic Canadian album celebrated its 25th anniversary this year with an anniversary deluxe edition? (Hint: it also became a rock musical written by Diablo Cody in 2018.)

A) Ashley MacIsaac, Hi™ How Are You Today?

B) Annie Lennox, Medusa C) Alanis Morissette, Jagged Little Pill D) Much Dance Mix ‘95

5. Like most award ceremonies this year, the Juno Awards were postponed. However, the winners will be announced in a virtual ceremony on June 29. Which of the following performers is NOT nominated for Artist of the Year?

A) Bryan Adams B) The Weeknd C) Jessie Reyez D) Tory Lanez 6. Which Canadian music legend officially became an American citizen this year, after 54 years of living south of the border?

A) Neil Young B) Raffi C) Joni Mitchell D) Robbie Robertson 7. Which blockbuster hockey movie was, pre-COVID-19, shooting a reboot in Vancouver?

A) The Mighty Ducks B) Mystery, Alaska C) Miracle D) Slap Shot 8. Spurred by the mass demonstrations against the police killing of George Floyd, books about race have seen a spike in sales. How much of an increase in sales did best-selling Canadian Author Desmond Cole’s book, The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power, see in the week ending May 31?

A) 20 per cent B) 50 per cent C) 135 per cent D) 172 per cent 9. Which Canadian TV show ended this year after a fiveyear run?

A) Workin’ Moms B) Schitt’s Creek C) This Hour Has 22 Minutes D) Letterkenny 10. Which massive Canadian music festival moved to a drive-in format for this year and how many cars will it accommodate?

A) Winnipeg Folk Festival, 320 B) Ottawa Bluesfest, 500 C) Dawson City Music Festival, 150 D) Vancouver International Jazz Festival, 450

1) D. 2) D. The baby was originally named X Æ A-12, but it had to be changed to X AE A-XII to adhere to California law. 3) B. 4) C. 5) B. 6) A. 7) A. 8) D. 9) B. 10) B.

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1. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers snapped the longest current Grey Cup drought, winning the club’s first championship since 1990, when they beat Hamilton last November. Which team has now gone the longest without a title?

A) Montreal Alouettes B) B.C. Lions C) Ottawa RedBlacks D) Hamilton Tiger-Cats 2. Burnaby’s Christine Sinclair broke the all-time record for international soccer goals scored with her 185th career tally against St. Kitts and Nevis in January. Which American previously held the record?

A) Brandi Chastain B) Mia Hamm C) Abby Wambach D) Sydney Leroux 3. Which Toronto Raptor made “The Shot” against the Philadelphia 76ers during the team’s 2019 NBA Championship run?

A) Kawhi Leonard B) Kyle Lowry C) Norman Powell D) Serge Ibaka 4. Whistler’s Gabby Flynn was golden at her sport’s World Age Group Championships in Japan in December. In which sport does she compete?

A) Racquetball B) Gymnastics C) Swimming D) Rock climbing 5. What have Super Bowl champion Laurent DuvernayTardif and hockey legend Hayley Wickenheiser both been doing during the COVID-19 pandemic?

A) Playing inspiring music on a livestream B) Working as doctors in hospitals C) Creating their own lines of colouring books D) Filming cooking demonstrations 6. How many players on the 2019 Toronto Blue Jays were the sons of MLB Hall of Famers?

A) 2 B) 3 C) 4 D) 5 7. Canadians Kia Nurse and Nayo Raincock-Ekunwe were teammates on which WNBA team in 2019?

A) Minnesota Lynx B) Seattle Storm C) Atlanta Dream D) New York Liberty 8. Which Canadian most recently won an FIS Alpine World Cup ski race?

A) Dustin Cook B) Marie-Michele Gagnon C) Manny Osborne-Paradis D) Erin Mielzynski 9. Which major did Bianca Andreescu win last September to become the first Canadian to capture a Grand Slam singles title?

A) U.S. Open B) Wimbledon C) French Open D) Australian Open 10. Brooke Henderson set the record for wins by a Canadian professional golfer when she won her ninth LPGA tournament in June 2019. How old was Henderson when she set the record?

A) 21 B) 25 C) 28 D) 32

1) D. Hamilton hasn’t won since 1999. 2) C. 3) A. 4) B. 5) B. 6) A. Cavan Biggio (son of Craig) and Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. both have Hall of Fame dads. Bo Bichette’s father, Dante, was a four-time All-Star, but has not been enshrined. 7) D. 8) B. Gagnon won the Alpine combined in Soldeu, Andorra in February 2016. 9) A. 10) A.

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By Brandon Barrett

For Whistler Secondary School’s (WSS) Bella Linton, it wasn’t the massive grad ceremony, the sparkly prom or any of the other big, landmark events we often associate with Grade 12 that she missed most when COVID-19 threw a wrench in her final year of high school.

“I think it was in April that I accepted the fact that we weren’t going back to school, and that was sad. I would think of the stuff I wouldn’t get to do again, little things you wouldn’t expect,” she recalls.

Like interactions with classmates or teachers as she passed by in the hallway. Or driving to Samurai Sushi to grab lunch in a car packed with friends, tunes blasting over the radio. You know, “all the fun bits of school,” Linton says, those moments we remember for far longer than the important dates from Roman history or the elements of the periodic table.

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It’s almost cliché by now to say that 2020 will be a year that goes down in the history books, and for the graduating students around the world standing on the precipice of adulthood, what was already bound to be a transformational year in their young lives turned into a crash course on the pitfalls of the so-called “real world.”

“I think it’s been a very maturing experience,” says WSS student David Mehta, who served as co-valedictorian alongside Brennan Riddle. “I know personally for me, it was weird to go from having a job and making money for myself to now filing for unemployment, doing my taxes for the first time and then trying to save money for university next year. It was a lot of things I’ve never really had to experience before and have been very privileged not to have to experience before all at once.”

It was an otherwise unremarkable Friday in mid-March that ended up being the last day much of the 2020 grad class set foot in school, an anti-climactic way to end more than a decade of academic life.

But, as it has for many of us managing these strange and trying times, the pandemic has come with something of a silver lining, explains Tanya Goertzen, the parent-advisory committee chair for WSS. “There were some things that were taken away but also gifts that came from this,” she says. “We’ve all been given this gorgeous gift of being able to be at home with these kids and experience this with them. In a lot of ways, it’s been a gift to both the kids and the parents to just say, ‘Hey, let’s slow down and think about what really matters.’”

Even still, none of the unintended side effects of quarantine can replace the pride of graduation day or the excitement of prom, but school administrators, parents and the wider community made sure that the Sea to Sky’s grads were celebrated in style. For WSS, that meant a physically distanced ceremony held Saturday, June 20 with small groups of grads and their loved ones staggered to arrive at different times to follow the appropriate health guidelines. The ceremony, which was also streamed online, proved to be a long day for the teachers who helped to make it as special as possible given the situation.

“When COVID first started, a lot of us didn’t think we would even get a graduation or didn’t care if we did anymore, but definitely once I got there, I’m glad that we had something and it was really personal,” Riddle says.

Of course, the impacts of COVID19 will extend beyond this school year; for graduating students attending postsecondary, their first year is going to look much different than it has for freshmen in the past, something that weighs on Riddle’s mind as she prepares to enter an arts program at UBC in the fall that will

primarily be online.

“University is what you’ve been looking forward to all year, and getting to meet new people—especially in Whistler because we’ve just grown up with the same people. They’re good people, but it’s exciting to think about meeting different people,” she says, adding that she plans to connect with her fellow students in other ways, both online and offline, without the benefit of in-person learning.

But if there’s anything the Class of 2020 has built up in droves, it’s resiliency.

It’s something they are regularly reminded of by the adults in their lives: their Grade 12 year will have prepared them well for the disappointments and challenges that are part and parcel of being an adult.

“My whole generation that is graduating this year is always told, ‘You guys are going to be so equipped for the real world now. No other grad year has experienced this so you’ll have learned something before you’ve gone out into the real world,’” says Linton.

That sentiment, as well intentioned as it is, belies a truth that this year’s grads seem to have already realized: they don’t have to begrudgingly accept the way the world is when they have the power to change it.

“We have a lot of kids like in our grade who are ready to make change and who are educated on everything that’s happening in the world right now,” says Mehta, who highlighted fellow grad and 2020 Whistler Citizen of the Year nominee Jade QuinnMcDonald for spearheading September’s climate strike as well as the four Sea to Sky high-school students—Danika Boucher, Charlize Littlelight, Jaya Gilbert and Kaiya Nixon—who organized the Whistler Black Lives Matter rally earlier this month. The WSS grad class has also decided to donate the $12,000 or so they’ve raised for prom to a charity that will be decided on in the coming weeks.

“We all bounce off each other,” adds Mehta. “Everyone wants to be as good as the next person in our grade and it pushes everyone else to do better.”

At Pemberton Secondary, the disruption of COVID-19 led to what is primed to become an annual tradition at the Oak Street school. Instead of the regular ceremony, Pembertonians lined the streets for a (physically distant) parade as grads made their way to the school for their staggered celebrations. Led by a stream of fire trucks and scored by the booming drums of Lil’wat elders, it was a day the grads won’t soon forget.

“It was probably one of the most powerful, most emotional days I’ve ever experienced in Pemberton,” says Principal Krista Brynjolfson.

“We know these students are the future, but now we look at them as being the leaders who will lead the way into the future for all of us.” ■

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By Brennan Riddle (left) and David Mehta (Right). Photo by Joern Rohde

Whistler Secondary School Valedictorian Speech

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ood afternoon staff, students, families, and members of the community. Before we begin, we would like to recognize that we are gathered here today on the unceded shared territory of the Lil’wat and Sḵwx̱ wú7mesh nation.

My name is David Mehta, and this is Brennan Riddle.

David and I have known each other forever, and this is actually our second time sharing the valedictorian stage with each other, with the last time being in Ms. Ledingham's Grade 7 class.

We are honoured and grateful to have been nominated by our graduating class to represent them today.

When we started the year, we never imagined it would be ending like this. With the hallways and classrooms empty, it feels surreal standing here today. If you had told me three months ago that I would never hear Ann say “Áma sn’án’atcw Whistler Secondary” again, I wouldn’t have believed you. Although we can’t physically be together, in the same room, this day is still ours, and we’re celebrating together, apart. Though it may be disappointing, we think it’s important not to forget how lucky we are to celebrate our graduation in such a beautiful place, supported by so many amazing and important people.

Reflecting on everything that’s happened this year, from endless wildfires, a pandemic, a global

recession, and the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, 2020 has undoubtedly been a sobering year.

It’s been a year that has kickstarted a cultural and political reset that is allowing us to bring about change we wouldn’t have dreamed to be possible six months ago. Many of us took to the streets earlier this year to protest how our governments have reacted to climate change, recently across North America and around the world many have done the same to support the Black Lives Matter movement. It is a time of civil disobedience and unrest.

Through protests, petition signing and awareness spreading through social media, we have created a movement.

As you leave Whistler Secondary, we want to encourage you to take that fire with you. Don’t let it fizzle out.

Our graduation is important to us right now, and that makes sense. It should be. But let’s not let it distract us from everything that is happening in the world right now. We wanted to remind everyone what it means to be a good ally to different groups of people that face oppression in Canada today.

Allyship is about recognizing your implicit biases. You need to understand where your prejudice lies, before you begin to address it. You also need to understand that if you are white, you have grown up with more privilege than any person of colour. Understand that if you are straight and cis, you have

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Whistler Secondary’s 24th Graduating Class SCHOLARSHIP

Art Den Duyf Memorial Award Art Den Duyf Memorial Award Art Den Duyf Memorial Award Arts Whistler Award Bob Brown/Richard Heine Rotary Scholarship Bonny Makarewicz – Whistler Pique Award CHBA Award CHBA Award Chili Thom Memorial Scholarship Coastal Mountain Excavations Award Creekside Dental CUPE Local 2010 Award CUPE Local 2010 Award CUPE Local 779 Dave Murray Memorial Award District Authority Award District Authority Award District Authority Award District Authority Award District Authority Award District Authority Award District Authority Award District Authority Award District Authority Award District Authority Award District Authority Award District Authority Award District Authority Award Dominion Lending- Sea to Sky Mortgage Doug and Mary Forseth Scholarship Doug and Mary Forseth Scholarship Doug and Mary Forseth Scholarship Dylan Jones Leadership Award Fairmont Chateau Whistler Award Fairmont Chateau Whistler Award Fairmont Chateau Whistler Award Fairmont Chateau Whistler Award French Immersion Scholarship Gibbons Whistler Award Gibbons Whistler Award Gibbons Whistler Award Gordon McKeever Memorial Scholarship

RECIPIENT

Jelenic, Marco Goertzen, Zayden Katrusiak, Alexander Jeong, Soyoung Unruh, Abby Albrecht, Savannah Katrusiak, Alexander Goertzen, Zayden Wells, Jessica Alexander Katrusiak Chigama, Mio Gannon, Aislinn Kearns, Riley Gannon, Aislinn Brownlie, Ben Mason, Sam Susko, Cain Linton, Bella Linton, Jazzy Chalk, Sophia Faerge, Katie Quilantang, Therese McKenzie, Hannah Hill, Kaitlyn Hepditch, Ben Assaly, Mikah Deally, Samantha Riddle, Brennan Maconnachie, Lily Smart, Kai Deally, Samantha Jeong, Soyoung Unruh, Abby Quilantang, Therese Hill, Kaitlyn Jeong, Soyoung Bedard, Emily Quinn-Macdonald, Jade Hepditch, Ben Haasen, Luke Cousar, Stephen Chigama, Mio

SCHOLARSHIP

Gordon McKeever Memorial Scholarship Gordon McKeever Memorial Scholarship Gordon McKeever Memorial Scholarship Gravity Logic Award Howe Sound Student Loan Association Bursary Kelly Blunden Scholarship Kelly Blunden Scholarship Kelty and Riley Dennehy Scholarship Kelty and Riley Dennehy Scholarship Margo Fraser Memorial Award Margo Fraser Memorial Award Metronome United “All-Rounder” award Metronome United “All-Rounder” award Munny Monroe WORCA Scholarship Nester’s Scholarship Nester’s Scholarship Nester’s Scholarship Nester’s Scholarship Real Estate Association of Whistler Real Estate Association of Whistler Restaurant Association of Whistler Restaurant Association of Whistler Restaurant Association of Whistler Restaurant Association of Whistler Restaurant Association of Whistler Restaurant Association of Whistler RMOW Award RMOW Award Sea to Sky Principal & Vice Principal Association Scholarship Spring Creek PAC Award Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Bursary Tony Tyler Memorial Award Tony Tyler Memorial Award Vail Epic Promise Scholars Grant Vail Epic Promise Scholars Grant Vail Epic Promise Scholars Grant Walter Zebrowski Rotary Scholarship Walter Zebrowski Rotary Scholarship Wendy Thompson Award Wendy Thompson Award

RECIPIENT

Jumonville, Freya Goertzen, Zayden Hayter, Noa Jelenic, Marco Hayter, Noa Matteau Rushbrook, Camie Jelenic, Marco Wells, Jessica Albrecht, Savanah Pagui, James Mingotti, Jerita Smart, Kai Deally, Samantha Matteau Rushbrook, Camie Paguia, James Wilson, Erin Albrecht, Haley Unruh, Abby Smart, Kai Maconnachie, Lily Bedard, Emily Kopec, Diesel Mingotti, Jerita Deschenes, Desire Smart, Kai Cousar, Stephen Jeong, Soyoung Unruh, Abby Grandin, Marine Hirsch, Callie Aikins, Brooke Matteau Rushbrook, Camie Cousar, Stephen Jeong, Soyoung Quinn-McDonald, Jade Kodato, Luana Quinn-McDonald, Jade Mehta, David Davis, Kitt Faerge, Katie

SCHOLARSHIP

Whistler Blackcomb Foundation Peter Xhignesse Memorial Scholarship Whistler Chamber of Commerce Award Whistler Firefighters - Louise Bucholz Memorial Scholarship Whistler Firefighters - Louise Bucholz Memorial Scholarship Whistler Firefighters - Louise Bucholz Memorial Scholarship Whistler Firefighters - Louise Bucholz Memorial Scholarship Whistler Minor Hockey Award Whistler Minor Hockey Award Whistler Mountain Ski Club Award Whistler Orthodontic Center Whistler Orthodontic Center Whistler Real Estate Co. Award Whistler Scholarship Fund Scholarship Whistler Scholarship Fund Scholarship Whistler Scholarship Fund Scholarship Whistler Scholarship Fund Scholarship Whistler Scholarship Fund Scholarship Whistler Seawolves Swim Club Scholarship Whistler Secondary Grad Legacy Scholarship Whistler Secondary PAC Award Whistler Secondary PAC Award Whistler Skating Club Award Whistler Youth Soccer Andree Janyk/Bob Calladine Award Whistler Youth Soccer Andree Janyk/Bob Calladine Award Women of Whistler Award/Thelma Johnstone Scholarship Women of Whistler Award/Thelma Johnstone Scholarship Women of Whistler Award/Thelma Johnstone Scholarship Women of Whistler Award/Thelma Johnstone Scholarship WSS Math Team Scholarship WSS Math Team Scholarship

RECIPIENT Brownlie, Ben Hepditch, Ben Linton, Jazzy Jeong, Soyoung Maconnachie, Lily Matteau Rushbrook, Camie Vazquez-Vela Gonzalez, Eduardo Parker, Jesse Jumonville, Freya Mehta, David Hirsch, Callie Albrecht, Haley Hepditch, Ben Mehta, David Chigama, Mio Espada, Miyuki Riddle, Brennan Wheeler, Kristen Jeong, Soyoung Hayter, Noa Mason, Sam Riddle, Brennan Chalk, Sophia McKenzie, Hannah Matteau Rushbrook, Camie Assaly, Mikah Espada, Miyuki Quilantang, Therese Tangonan, Gian Unruh, Abby

Total all: $127,800

Whistler community businesses, organizations, & individuals have been most generous and supportive of Whistler Secondary graduates. We would like to sincerely thank and recognize their contributions that assist our graduates in making their career goals and dreams a reality! Thank you from the students, parents, and staff of Whistler Secondary, A Community School.

A Special thank you to the Whistler Scholarship Committee and all of its members

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grown up with more privilege than any member of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Understand that if you are a cis male, you have grown up with more privilege than any of your female or non-binary counterparts. Privilege is fully real in Canadian society, and you need to take the time and action to recognize that, if you haven’t already. Apart from this, allyship is also about looking into how you can use your privilege to support those that face oppression, and help amplify their voices. You need to learn about black and Indigenous history in Canada. If you are able to, you need to donate to local, provincial, national, or international organizations. You need to spread awareness through any platform that you have. And finally, you need to remember that silence is complicity, and to use your voice if you have one.

Growing up in B.C., we were taught about residential schools and the many abuses Canada’s Indigenous people have faced throughout Canadian history. But what we haven’t been taught about is the severe amount of racism our Indigenous people still face today throughout the country. We still need to have more conversations about injustices, such as the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and the starlight tours in Saskatchewan. We need to have more media coverage on Indigenous rights and issues. Bill 1, which is called the Critical Infrastructure Defence Act, was

just passed in Alberta, and it essentially strips First Nations communities their rights to protest on their own land.

There was virtually no media coverage until it had been passed. We’re failing as a country to protect Indigenous communities. As a class that is so outgoing and passionate, it is fully our responsibility to help foster change in our communities as we take the next steps in our lives.

We know at the moment it feels like there's not much you can do. When you’re feeling lost, try to remember things you’re grateful for, or things that make you happy. I’ll go first. I’m grateful that, unlike at school, at my house, we have bathroom doors. Another thing I’m grateful for is that thanks to COVID-19, we were able to pull off the longest grad skip day ever recorded.

We know that this year hasn’t gone the way we’ve planned or hoped, but it will be memorable in its own way.

We are always going to be known as the graduating class of 2020. We will most likely be asked in future job interviews, and by people we meet, about what it was like graduating in COVID times. So let’s reflect on our experiences this year. Let’s think about the resilience we’ve shown through these challenging times.

Remember how innovative, imaginative, and hard working we have been. Brennan and I are both extremely proud to be a part of a class

that cares so much, works so hard, and has matured so much over the last few years. So no, we didn’t think we would end things this way. But in some ways we are glad they did, because there is no way any of us will ever forget the way our grad year has played out. How it shifted so quickly from normal to completely unreal.

We’ve done it. We’re finally graduating. Without the help, support, and guidance of our parents, teachers, coaches, community members, and, of course, Mrs. Chevrette’s inspirational quotes, this class wouldn’t have been able to achieve as much as we have.

We want to recognize the teachers who adapted so flawlessly to online learning in order to get us here. And the parents, who had to put up with us being at home for the last three months. We literally would not be here, graduating today, if it weren’t for your hard work. For this, the class of 2020, thanks every single one of you. And, finally, to the grads, we would like to give everyone a big congratulations because, despite all the odds, we are graduating. Whether you did it with grace or crammed three months of schoolwork into three sleepless nights, you should be proud of yourself. The stress filled days of high school are now behind us.

As we continue onto different paths next year, we encourage you to be open to new experiences, just like all

of us were so open minded to CLE [Career-Life Education]. Everyone that grew up in Whistler, or that has been here for a while, knows that we live in a little bubble. We’ve been sheltered our entire lives. It’s finally time we educate ourselves about the real world.

It’s time to work as hard as we can to build our lives in and out of Whistler.

And finally, like the great Nicki Minaj once said, “Greatness is what we on the brink of.”

Peace out, WSS.

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The Whistler Secondary School class of 2020 wearing their new hoodies in fall 2019. Photo submitted.

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This important celebration and rite of passage for each of you looks somewhat different this year. Of course, this does not take away from celebrating the successful accomplishments, the hard work and the memories you made during your educational journey. Given the unique and challenging circumstances you have faced during this critical year, you are prepped to face the world with perseverance, dedication and compassion.

Please accept our most sincere congratulations on the completion of a very important phase of your life-your Secondary School Graduation.

Best wishes for success as you continue with your education, pursue personal endeavours and face the challenges and opportunities of the world you are about to enter.

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BY DAN FALLOON AS WHISTLER STARTS to come back from COVID-19-related shutdowns, things look a little bit different, and recreational sports are no exception.

Even so, coming back with some compromises is a superior option to shuttering for the summer, according to Whistler Slo Pitch Association (WSPA) convenor Alison Jenkins.

“To me, it’s really important to get the league going,” she said. “It’s something that people really value as part of their summer fun. Particularly given that many people have felt somewhat isolated over the last few weeks with the physical distancing, I think it’s important to get recreational sport up and going.

“I think that social interaction is really, really important for people’s wellbeing and mental health.”

Working with the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) to establish return-toplay protocols for the past month, Jenkins isn’t entirely sure what games are going to look like when exhibition play starts up June 29, with the regular season kicking off the following week. After receiving RMOW feedback, the league planned to submit a new draft plan on June 22.

“The main thing the RMOW is concerned about is the high-touch surfaces and how do we stop contamination?” she said.

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Among the proposed changes are: each player would need their own batting helmet; balls will be switched out depending on which team is fielding, with teams sanitizing those balls while it is batting; and tagging would not be allowed.

To allow for the latter rule, each base would have the exact same rules, with players being allowed to run through each base, like at first, and there being a “commitment line,” like at home, to determine whether a runner is safe or out.

Teams are allowed to share bats, but must sanitize them often during games.

As teams and umpires adapt to the new normal, Jenkins and other league directors will attend games and ensure players are following protocols.

“At the same time, we can’t be there all of the time babysitting teams. What we would say is team captains have a responsibility to ensure that their team is abiding by the rules,” she said.

Jenkins is expecting fewer teams than the usual 60, in large part due to fewer residents living in town this year. She added that there has been some interest from teams in Squamish due to uncertainty surrounding the timeline of when their local league will be allowed to resume.

“I think everyone was pretty keen to get out there and play,” she said. “I had a couple teams say it depends on how we’re adapting and if they feel safe, but most people are just pretty keen to get out there.”

As such, there will be five divisions rather than the usual six, with game nights being Sunday through Thursday. As well, teams will likely play two games against

each other back to back rather than facing two separate squads a night.

Teams looking to register should visit whistlerslopitch.com/ for more information, while individuals seeking a team should post in facebook.com/whistlerslopitchassc.

Since the season will be shorter, fees are $900 per team, down from the early-bird rate of $1,300 and the regular rate of $1,600.

BMX TRACKS ACTIVE The Whistler BMX track, meanwhile, is open to the public after opening in late May. Secretary Tina Symko said though riders are welcome to use the park free of charge outside of official club practices and events, it is not monitored and safety is the user’s onus.

Symko said the club is taking guidance from BMX Canada, which has cancelled all provincial and national level races, while local tracks also called off the regional Sea to Sky Series.

However, Symko noted that Whistler BMX in-house races tend to only draw 20 or so riders, so while there are no plans yet, it might be possible to hold some local contests without exceeding the 50-person cap set by the provincial health officer.

Should there be racing later this summer, the club would require pre-registration and allow only one parent on site.

“I don’t think we’re ready to go there yet. I think we’re going to start with some weekly gate practices,” she said, noting those will start June 30 with online preregistration required.

To this point, the club has held one gate practice. While some kids have been eager to jump into the gates like normal, volunteers

have been sure to limit the numbers each round to ensure proper distancing.

“The way our gate works, there’s a natural space between those who ride the track anyway, so you’re looking at at least 30 seconds in between.”

At the lone gate practice held so far, there was some star power in attendance as Squamish’s Teigen Pascual, the world’s second-ranked rider in her age category, made the trip north.

“She was super stoked to come up and do some gates. It was awesome,” Symko said.

“All the little kids are just, ‘Oh my God.’ “You have two kids in the gate at a time with social distancing, so a four-year-old fresh on the track can ride beside her.”

As well, Pemberton BMX held its first gate practice of the season last week.

Also in the Pemberton area, for those enjoying a little more kick on their twowheeler, the Green River Motocross Park is open for the season, weather permitting.

The track opened for the season with a reservation system via Facebook Messenger (facebook.com/PembertonMx/) on June 6, said track president Kevin LaBatte. A maximum of 30 riders will be allowed in the park at a time, with 20 on track. At press time, spectators were not permitted.

While the start of the season was delayed, the track came back in great shape as a club member lent some machinery to the park to allow it to complete work on the track.

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CMTR is holding the Summer Scavenger Hunt, which started on June 8 and runs until Sept. 16, where participants can earn 30 different badges based on the different types of runs they complete.

Series co-director Geoff Langford explained that challenges range from running in the worst weather conditions to picking up the weirdest piece of trash.

“A woman the other day found a tire that she carried back on her run,” he chuckled.

Other challenges are designed to bring joy to the greater community, such as the Light Bright run, which encourages participants to wear their most colourful outfits, or some, which Langford dubbed “the introverts’ worst nightmares,” where athletes provide encouragement to everyone they come across.

“We’re hearing from a lot of people how it’s freshening up the way they run.

It’s giving them a different perspective on things and encouraging them to do things they had never thought of or normally wouldn’t [do],” he said. “It’s rewarding to see that happening.”

Some of the challenges encourage runners to try a new trail or route, though Langford stressed that they should do so relatively close to home and avoid travelling to a new community, such as Squamish or Whistler.

“Obviously, we don’t want to have that impact on the community or strain on search and rescue or health care services.

We wanted to come up with something that was very different, very unique, and was open and accessible to everybody anywhere,” he said.

Langford said response has been encouraging, with more than 1,900 participants having registered. A typical season across the series’ eight events sees roughly 6,000 entries, though many participants complete multiple contests.

Like many virtual events on offer, the scavenger hunt is open to all regardless of geographical location.

While there have been plenty of familiar names taking part, Langford said, there has been uptake from across the world, including Australia, Germany, Sweden, Japan, France, Ireland and the Netherlands.

Langford added that the demographics shifted fairly significantly, with women making up roughly 70 per cent of the participants.

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“Most ultraruns are pretty heavily maledominated,” Langford said, noting the Squamish 50 comes the closest to parity with a 55-45 split.

The scavenger hunt costs $75 to register, with $10 from each sign-up going to local trail-maintenance groups. Langford said the initiative has raised roughly $30,000 for those organizations as registrants have donated additional money to the cause.

The series cancelled most of its events for the summer as the pandemic wore on, though it has held out hope for the Whistler Alpine Meadows race in late September.

Langford said the series has been in close contact with the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) and Whistler Blackcomb, saying he expects to make a decision one way or the other by July 1.

“We’re looking at that every week in terms of the B.C. guidelines and parameters, and what we could do that would make sense for everybody, for participants, for the community, for the greater good,” he said. “At the moment, if it goes ahead, we’d be looking at a very scaled-down version.”

One option is to limit registration to B.C. only, though including Alberta is a possibility depending on the situation when the decision is made.

Even if it’s allowed within provincial guidelines to host the race, Langford said, there’s still the chance the series may opt against it.

“Just because we can doesn’t necessarily mean we should, and that’s where the real discussions are,” he said.

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Shifting ground I ENTERED A TRIATHLON once. I miscalculated the length of the run leg (I wasn’t exactly competitive about it) and didn’t realize it was two laps of the course until I put on a little late-breaking burst of speed to cross the finish line and the marshal waved me away: “Another lap to go.” That was gutting. My feet had never felt so heavy.

Moving goalposts, shifting sands, another lap to go on an empty tank.

Welcome to 2020.

It had taken me about eight weeks into pandemic life to realize that I don’t have

BY LISA RICHARDSON to resolve anything or have any answers.

(Thanks to B.C.’s provincial health officer to Dr. Bonnie Henry for doing the heavy lifting on that front.) I just have to co-exist with uncertainty as my newest uninvited roommate—the couch surfer who doesn’t seem to have intentions of leaving anytime soon.

School was cancelled. School was online. School was back on, with a suite of accommodations, as a kind of practice run for the fall—but optional for parents.

Was it really safe? How was I supposed to calibrate the actual risk? Was my kid a guinea pig? What was the right decision?

When that option first popped up, I didn’t think I could find my way forward. But the course marshal was waving the flag, cool and unflappable: Keep on moving. You’re not done yet.

Turned out, school was fine. No big deal.

(Staff and admin, you are wonderful. Thank you, thank you. So much respect.) Then, as

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quickly as we’d adjusted to the new swing of things, it was over, done, everyone’s graduated, all our home-schooling sins are washed away, and summer is here. (Can I reiterate once more? Thank you, teachers.)

Sorry, where is the course map, again?

Can we travel or not travel? How close is close to home? What the heck have we all signed on for here?

I start to type “When will the pandemic end” and Google finishes the question for me. The string of search results yields no clarity. I literally resort to pulling an oracle card, and it warns of “Faultlines.” Well, no kidding. I tune back in to another 3 p.m. online government briefing, and Dr. Henry responds to the question, “Is a second wave inevitable?” with her trademark disarming candour: “I wish I knew.” Caveat: given what we have seen of pandemics through

“In the absence of our usual escapes, we’ve been brought face to face with the parts of our lives and our world that are unsustainable,” Dulsky said in an email interview.

Dulsky is the author of Seasons of Moon and Flame: The Wild Dreamer’s Epic Journey of Becoming—a book of practices and practical suggestions for gleaning insight and clarity, through a deep attunement to the seasons.

“If we are being called to build a new collective then we’ve got to pay attention to what fragile systems are crumbling so we know what to build in their place,” writes Dulsky.

Her prescription for navigating such strange times is to “get weird and fall in love with uncertainty. When we think we know something for sure, and we decide we’ve

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history, including one in the late 1800s that was probably a coronavirus, “We need to prepare for a second seasonal surge in the fall.” And that was before Beijing, before 136,000 cases were reported to the WHO in a single day, before case counts in a host of U.S. states started doubling, before the virus counter surpassed 8 million.

And yet, we’re being invited to transition to an easing of restrictions—an invitation people are responding to at different levels of speed and enthusiasm.

What this means to me now is that I probably should tell uncertainty to get off the couch and get comfortable in the spare room.

Danielle Dulsky says this is an opportunity to practice “generative befuddlement.”

discovered the answer to everything—or ‘the one true way’—we are limiting the potential for Mystery to speak to and through us.”

John Keats, the romantic poet who died, age 25, of tuberculosis, called this “negative capability”—a willingness to be in uncertainties without reaching after fact and reason.

One of Dulsky’s favourite exercises for creating the feeling of “generative befuddlement” is to imagine yourself, or the world, in the future, and then shape that projection until it feels like a memory.

Befuddled is such a funny old word. It’s not a crisis word, an emergency, a battle metaphor. It’s gentle and mild and has

misplaced its spectacles, and maybe this is what we need to cultivate—this myopic bumbling, this perplexed fumble for something close at hand that we must have overlooked. Don’t look for grand certainties and pronouncements—that need is what predisposes us to misinformation and conspiracy theories and gives compulsive liars their seductive allure. Preserve your right to feel befuddled, move a bit more slowly, shuffle if you have to. Echo-locate.

Let your embarrassed query—“does this feel OK?”—bounce off those around you.

Set another plate at your table because uncertainty probably has a hunger for eggs and toast, too. Nourish it.

At the other side of this experience, Dulsky hopes that what arises out of this pandemic pause will be, “Clarity. I think once the mud settles, whenever that may be, we will be transformed. We will see the fragility of many of our global systems, and we will be tasked with not wasting this opportunity to make the world anew.”

Conceivably, the caterpillar has absolutely no concept that it’s a butterfly-in-waiting. It’s surely befuddled when it disintegrates into a kind of DNA soup. The seed, when its capsule cracks open and it’s riven with shoots and tendrils, might not know the tree, the bush, the plant it will become.

How these radical new forms are generated is genuine mystery. And maybe that’s what generative befuddlement is— both a precursor and a response, one of many, deeply acceptable responses to mystery. Sometimes mystery warrants awe, sometimes a hymn, sometimes downon-your-knees sobbing, and sometimes a mildly perplexed bumping up against each other in befuddlement, in which we say, “Strange days, aren’t they. How’s your new housemate? Y’all done anything weird and wonderful lately?”

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Whistler Farmers’ Market seeks new site for season LOCAL FARMERS FACE CHALLENGING YEAR IF POPULAR MARKET CANCELLED

BY ALYSSA NOEL THIS SUMMER’S Whistler Farmers’ Market could be in peril if organizers are unable to secure a new location.

The popular market was slated to kick off on Sunday, June 21. Earlier this month, the Whistler Farmers’ Market board and market manager sent out a letter to its members explaining that the board had passed a unanimous motion not to host the market at its Upper Village location— property owned by Vail Resorts—this year. The letter went on to say that “after months of negotiations, the highest number of vendors the market is currently able to accommodate represents only 13 per cent of our membership,” due to physicaldistancing guidelines.

That would mean only 17 vendors would fit in the current space with the requisite two metres between vendors and customers. To that end, the board said the Upper Village was no longer a financially viable location, as a minimum of 30 vendors are needed.

Organizers had been hopeful that the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) would approve an alternative plan to host the market with up to 30 vendors behind the Audain Art Museum on the day lot connector road, but the proposal was ultimately turned down.

In an email, the RMOW said the area wasn’t a suitable location because the road is important for the flow of vehicles; parking traffic that would normally use the connector road would cause congestion on Lorimer Road and Blackcomb Way; and work is taking place in the adjacent Lot 4 to install overhead lighting and EV charging stations.

“We recognize the challenges the Whistler Farmers’ Market is facing and want to work with them on finding a location that allows for their operations to meet physical distancing requirements,” said the email.

The board wasn’t satisfied with the reasoning, said board member Alyssa Belter,

TO MARKET The Whistler Farmers’ Market did not kick off in the Upper Village on Sunday, June 21. Its board is currently exploring locations to accommodate physical-distancing requirements.

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who also co-runs small-scale certified organic Plenty Wild Farms in Pemberton.

“I was pretty surprised to get the response,” she said. “It was, ‘No, it was not approved.’ We had to go back and say, ‘Why? Can you let us know why?’ To me, the reasons felt like not super strong reasons.”

Vail Resorts also offered the market its property in Parking Lot 6 on Blackcomb Mountain near Base II, but the market said that spot wasn’t suitable for a number of reasons.

“Vail did propose Lot 6, which we felt would almost be like a death knell for the farmers’ market,” Belter said. “It’s so out of the way… There’s no parking, public transit. If you’re walking or on foot it’s super inaccessible. It felt like a barrier coming up to the market. You need a car and no tourists are going to find it.”

Sarah McCullough, director of government and community relations with Vail Resorts who works with the market,

said that they’re happy to support the board however they can.

“We love it, we love to support it with the Upper Village lands,” McCullough said.

“There are many retail operators that have supported it for years and years and want it to happen. But this year with all the things we need to take into account that have to be physically distanced, we just don’t have room for more than 17 … Despite what the board voted, I’m absolutely open if they want to revisit it to look back at the 17 [vendors].”

The Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre also offered its parking lot to the market and, at press time, Belter said the board was exploring the idea of using that space in conjunction with the Upper Village space as well.

In the meantime, Chris Quinlan, former market manager who was involved in a lawsuit with the farmers’ market last year that ended in a negotiated settlement, posted on a popular Whistler Facebook page

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and reached out to Pique about his concerns for this year’s market.

He said that the market should have moved forward with a reduced number of vendors this year.

“Their first responsibility is to the farmers,” he wrote in the post. “There were 10 vendors in 2018 in the [farm] produce category, including a honey farmer and Lillooet rancher. All of these could have been accommodated, plus 7 other artisan or craft vendors. The WFM board could easily subsidize the operations for a season and meet this responsibility. The board chose not to.”

Belter, meanwhile, said she’s had the difficult task of approaching the situation as both a board member and a farmer who stands to lose 50 per cent of her gross income for the year.

“It’s pretty heartbreaking and I feel for the other vendors as well,” she said. “This is their livelihood, their small business.”

In the meantime, farmers like Andrew Budgell at Laughing Crow Organics—who said he is not blaming any parties for the challenging year—are grappling with how they will make ends meet if the market does not go forward at all this season. While they do have a vegetable box delivery service and participate in agricultural tourism, the Whistler market is their biggest market.

“Starting next week, that big pile of Whistler Farmers’ Market food is going to start flowing off the fields and it’s got to go somewhere. It’s really expensive if it goes to the compost pile,” he said.

Going forward, Belter said the board remains hopeful they will find a suitable location, but is putting a call out to the community for support.

“As a farmer and a board member, I’m asking the community for help,” she said. “I want to see a market, but if the community wants to see a market, it feels like we need some movers and shakers to help us out and help us find a location that will support the organization and the community. We can’t do it alone.” n

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The Zoom Chronicles drums up drama in quarantine BETWEEN SHIFTS THEATRE SET TO RELEASE EIGHT ONE-ACT PLAYS STARTING JUNE 29

BY ALYSSA NOEL BACK IN LATE MARCH, Between Shifts Theatre was a week away from debuting its production of Sexy Laundry when the COVID-19 pandemic hit and brought gatherings to a standstill.

But rather than push the pause button indefinitely, the group decided to adapt to the virtual times.

“Over the last few years, we kept wanting to do another night of one-act plays by local playwrights and have an evening of short plays,” says Kathy Daniels, executive director of Between Shifts. “(Also), all the theatres are closed and we have no idea when we’ll be able to use a theatre again, but we still wanted to keep the artistic juices flowing.”

And that’s how the idea for The Zoom Chronicles was born. Between Shifts put a call out for one-act plays under 10 minutes that could be acted on Zoom. Initially, they planned to showcase four in one night.

“We got eight one-act plays submitted to us,” Daniels says. “They were all amazing, so we decided to use them all and make it two evenings.”

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In total, they received two plays from Joseph T. Leander (which, they later learned, was a pseudonym for one of their board members), one from Pique’s own Brandon Barrett, one from Peter Slade, and two from Whistlerite Karen McLeod.

For her part, McLeod submitted Self Help on Halloween—co-written with her

the bedroom. To help soften the blow, his family Zooms him in to answer the door.

“I went with silly,” McLeod says. “I like to turn things on their head a bit and do the unexpected.”

To that end, Elite Panic is about two girlfriends trying to recreate a day at the Scandinave Spa while in quarantine.

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son Levi—and Elite Panic.

“I thought, ‘I’ll send them out and if they don’t work, they don’t work,” McLeod says.

It turns out—with a little tweaking to accommodate the fact that actors are all acting on Zoom from separate locations— they did work.

Self Help on Halloween centres around a family answering the door to trick-ortreaters, only their most enthusiastic member, Dad, has been exposed to COVID-19 and is stuck in self-isolation in

“It turns out they have different ideas about how to be during this time as we all kind of do,” she adds. “One character is building a bunker and the other is building a bee box. The first character is stocking up on toilet paper and guns and the other is volunteering. There’s a real difference in how they’re dealing with coronavirus.”

Meanwhile, local actors and directors have been hard at work bringing those plays to life with the added challenge of rehearsing on Zoom.

“It’s a very different experience than doing theatre,” says Daniels, who’s also acting in one play and directing another. “It’s not the same at all … It’s just the communication. You have to work really hard at communicating.

In some ways, I find it takes more energy.

You don’t have the benefit of full-body communication. After a couple of Zoom rehearsals, I’m done. I’m toasted.”

But now, with several weeks of rehearsal behind them, they’re preparing to record the plays and then post them on YouTube and their website for people to watch for free starting on Monday, June 29.

“We were thinking we’d do it live, but then we realized that’s too perilous to ask people to do something like that,” Daniels says. “In one of the plays we’re in we’re going to pretend we have a freeze, but to have a freeze while you’re actually doing the performance wouldn’t be so good.”

Even given all the logistical challenges and extra learning required to put on the show, Daniels says she’s happy they forged ahead with the idea.

“I am so glad we did this,” she says. “One of the main reasons is to connect with these writers. These writers are so brilliant, I can’t believe it. I’m hoping in the future, we can get these writers to write for us again.”

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REOPENING JUNE 26 REBEL REBEL Murray Hunt and Travis Smith might be best known as members of The Combat Dolphins, but they also have a duo called Rebel Appliance.

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BY ALYSSA NOEL WHEN TRAVIS SMITH and Murray Hunt played one of their early shows as a duo at a Whistler bar last winter, it was without a proper name.

So, the bar took it upon themselves to describe the pair to their patrons as “Combat Dolphins Lite.”

Sure, that was Smith and Hunt’s louder, more raucous rock band, but it drove home a point: if they were going to take their casual, campfire jams to the stage, they needed a name.

“You come to see The Combat Dolphins at Swedish Aprés and there’s 200 people there and it’s melt-your-face-off loud and it’s a really awesome show, and then you come see Trav and I playing and we’re doing our thing, it’s a totally different experience,” Hunt says.

“It’s probably a bit disingenuous to use the same banner for it.”

And so, shortly before COVID-19 upended the world, Rebel Appliance was born.

While the timing was a complete coincidence, the pared-back acoustic format means they’re better suited to hit the stage again as soon as they’re allowed.

“Before COVID, we were hearing from curators, like Arts Whistlern … They were looking for smaller, more manageable outfits already. Then fast-forward to something we could’ve never predicted— the environment we’re in now—looking forward, on the bar side of things they’re limiting capacity and their take is going to be can we afford to bring in a four-piece band? We’re a little more available in this format,” Hunt says.

To that end, the pair was recently invited to play Arts Whistler’s Bike Shop Sessions, streaming from Coastal Culture. The experience was remarkable, but the pair had had plenty of practice behind the camera.

When shows first started getting cancelled, The Combat Dolphins were one of the first local bands to pivot to livestream shows and help raise money for the Whistler Community Services Society.

“The part that surprised me … I would get these requests,” Smith says. “I’d be chatting online having a phone call and people would be like, ‘When’s the next livestream? We loved it!’ I had no idea people even watched it.”

The pair is in a unique position to excel in the world of livestreams—where bands are free from the shackles of set lists or set times.

“We kind of have this weird mind-meld thing where little visual cues are enough to indicate changes,” Hunt says. “Our band rehearsals now are having a few too many drinks around the campfire at 1 a.m.”

That’s partly because they go way back and, actually, are step-brother-in-laws.

In fact, the first time they ever met was at a “fam jam” in North Vancouver years ago.

Hunt’s father-in-law stuck him on bass (you’ll usually find him with a guitar) and Smith, who was visiting from Australia at the time, was behind the drums for the first time in several years.

While the set was mostly ‘50s music, Hunt had a “sixth sense” that he and Smith would have the same musical taste. So, he tested it.

“I played the opening bass riff to Pearl Jam’s ‘Jeremy,’” he says. “I just saw Trav light up. I thought, ‘This guy’s cool.’”

Adds Smith: “Then I moved back to Canada a couple years later and then moved up to Whistler and I was like, ‘Oh, Murray’s in Whistler. Right.’”

Where The Combat Dolphins are about bringing the party, Rebel Appliance lets the duo dig into music they truly love—from Paul Simon to The Decemberists and MGMT, judging by their eclectic Bike Shop Sessions’ acoustic show.

“With The Combat Dolphins, we tend to play songs that people really like and we feed off their energy,” Hunt says.

“They’re hearing songs that they love.

With Rebel Appliance, it’s almost reverse.

We’re playing songs that Travis and I are really passionate about and it seems like the audience feeds off the energy we’re putting out because we’re super engaged with the material.”

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Our reopening comes with a few changes, beginning with our operating hours. The museum will be open only six days a week and will be closed on Wednesdays (apart from July 1) for the foreseeable future, though we will continue to be open until 9 p.m. on Thursdays. Visitors to the museum will also notice some physical changes to the space, with a barrier at the front desk and designated pathways through the exhibit area (we have also repainted some areas, which eagle-eyed visitors will notice are a slightly different shade of grey). You serving à la carte breakfast menu from 7:00 am can find more information about changes dinner reservations from 6:00 - 9:00 pm in our procedures at whistlermuseum.org.

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This summer, our popular Discover Nature program will rotate through different parks around town, bringing visual displays (there will be no touch tables at Discover Nature this year) and on-site interpreters to feature different themes and aspects of Whistler’s natural history Mondays through Thursdays.

Crafts in the Park, a joint program with the Whistler Public Library, is going virtual this summer, with seven weeks of crafts brought to you from Florence Petersen Park. Each Saturday, beginning July 11, we will share a video filmed in the park to share a little about Whistler’s history and lead you through a craft project. Families can sign up with the Whistler Library to receive weekly craft supply packages and craft supply lists for each week will be shared online so everyone can participate.

We are also very excited to be able to announce that we will be presenting a virtual screening of Mike Stein’s film Highways of the Past: Canoeing the Grand Canyon of the Liard, with a Q&A session with Mike, on Tuesday, July 7. Participants must register for the event, as space is limited. Go to the Events page on our website to find out how to register.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In addition to being a

magnificent storyteller, Aries author Barbara Kingsolver raises chickens at her home. “There are days when I am envious of my hens,” she writes, “when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.” Do you ever experience that delightful rush of assurance, Aries? I suspect that you’re likely to do so on multiple occasions in the coming weeks. And if you are indeed visited by visions of a perfect and sure purpose, your next task will be to initiate practical action to manifest it in the real world.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Nobel Prize-winning Taurus physicist Richard Feynman got his undergraduate degree from prestigious MIT and his PhD from prestigious Princeton University. Later he taught at prestigious Caltech. But his approach to education had a maverick quality. “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible,” he advised his students. I think his strategy will work well for you in the coming weeks, which will be a favourable time to gather valuable information and polish your existing aptitudes.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re entering a phase when you’ll have the potential to upgrade and fine-tune your relationship with money. In the hope of encouraging that prospect, I offer you the counsel of author Katharine Butler Hathaway. “To me, money is alive,” she wrote. “It is almost human. If you treat it with real sympathy and kindness and consideration, it will be a good servant and work hard for you, and stay with you and take care of you.” I hope you’ll consider cultivating that approach, dear Gemini: expressing benevolence and love toward money, and pledging to be benevolent and loving as you use the money you acquire.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant?” Author Diane Ackerman asks her readers that question, and now I pose the same inquiry to you—just in time for your Season of Transformation.

“We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors,” Ackerman says. I will add that you Cancerians now have the potential to be exceptional shape-shifters and magical reinventors. What new amazements might you incorporate into your life? What dazzling twists and twinkles would you like to add to your character? What will the Future You be like?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Qabalistic teacher Ann Davies asked, “If you stick your finger in the fire, do you then complain that it is unfair when your finger gets burned?

Do you call the fire bad?” I offer you this caution, Leo, because I want to encourage you not to stick your fingers or toes or any other parts of you into the fire during the coming weeks. And I’m happy to inform you that there are better approaches to finding out what’s important to learn about the fire. The preferred way is to watch the fire keenly and patiently from a modest distance. If you do so long enough, you’ll get all you need.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In accordance with upcoming astrological portents, I urge you to engage in a vigorous redefinition of the term “miracle.” That will open you up to the full range of miraculous phenomena that are potentially available in the coming weeks. For inspiration, read this passage by Faith Baldwin: “Miracles are everyday things.

Not only sudden great fortune wafting in on a new wind. They are almost routine, yet miracles just the same. Every time something hard becomes easier; every time you adjust to a situation which, last week, you didn’t know existed; every time a kindness falls as softly as the dew; or someone you love who was ill grows better; every time a blessing comes, not with trumpet and fanfare, but silently as night, you have witnessed a miracle.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When Libras become authoritative enough to wield clout in their own sphere of influence, it’s often due to three factors: 1. the attractive force of their empathy; 2. their abilities to listen well and ask good

questions, which help enable them to accurately read people’s emotional energy; 3. their knack for knowing specific tricks that promote harmony and a common sense of purpose. If you possess any of these talents, dear Libra, the next eight weeks will be a favourable time to employ them with maximum intensity and ingenuity and integrity.

You’re primed to acquire and wield more leverage.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There is only one kind of erotic intimacy between consenting adults that can truly be called “unnatural”: an act that is physically impossible to perform. Everything else is potentially vitalizing and holy. No one knows this better than you Scorpios. You’re the champions of exotic pleasure; the connoisseurs of blissful marvels; the masters of curious delight and extraordinary exultation. And from an astrological perspective, the coming weeks will be a time when these aspects of your character could be especially vivid. But wait a minute. What about the pandemic? What about social distancing? What about being cautious in seeking intimate connection? If anyone can work around these constraints so as to have sexual fun, it’s your sign. Use your imagination!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When he was 22 years old, Sagittarian-born Werner Heisenberg received his doctorate in physics and mathematics from a German university—even though he got a grade of C on his final exams. Nine years later, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics because of his pioneering work on quantum mechanics. What happened in between? One key development: He was mentored by physicists Niels Bohr and Max Born, both of whom also garnered Nobel Prizes. Another factor in his success was his association with other brilliant colleagues working in his field. I hope this story inspires you Sagittarians to be on the lookout for catalytic teachers and colleagues who can expedite your evolution. The planetary omens are favourable for such an eventuality.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You Capricorns aren’t renowned for causing controversy. For the most part, you’re skillful at managing your reputation and keeping it orderly.

But there may soon be a departure from this norm. A bit of a hubbub could arise in regards to the impressions you’re making and the effects you’re generating. I’m reminded of Capricorn author J. D. Salinger, whose book Catcher in the Rye was for a time widely taught in American schools but also widely banned because of its allegedly controversial elements. These days, the book is regarded as a beloved classic, and I suspect you will weather your commotion with similar panache.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Novelist Tom Robbins articulated a vision of what it means to be bold and brave. He said, “Real courage is risking something that might force you to rethink your thoughts and suffer change and stretch consciousness.” I’m hoping you will make that formula your keynote in the coming weeks.

The time is right for you to summon extra amounts of fortitude, determination, and audacity. What new possibilities are you ready to flesh out in ways that might prod you to revise your beliefs and welcome transformation and expand your awareness?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Joan of Arc performed her heroic and magical feats in 1430 and 1431. But she wasn’t canonized as a saint until 1920—almost five centuries later. It took a while to garner the full appreciation she deserved. I’m sure you won’t have to wait as long to be acknowledged for your good deeds and fine creations, Pisces. In fact, from what I can tell, there’ll be a significant honour, enhancement, or reward coming your way sometime in the next four months. Start visualizing what you’d like it to be, and set your intention to claim it.

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Vail Resorts need to focus on regional market GOOD IDEAS are game changers. The best of them alter the landscape, change the paradigm, push the envelope and other questionable clichés favoured by consultants everywhere.

But good ideas can also be traps once the game, landscape, paradigm or envelop morphs into an alternate universe.

Case in point: The Epic Pass.

It was a game changer, blah, blah, blah. It opened up big mountains to small mountain skiers. Suddenly, it made sense for someone in the heartland of America— Kansas City, Mo., for example—to buy a

BY G.D. MAXWELL season pass that would let them slide down the 30-second slopes of SnowCreek—300 vertical feet (91.4 metres), 12 trails (no metric equivalent since everyone counts in base 10)—or jump on a plane and ski one of the real mountains shadowed by the Epic umbrella.

It was aspirational for many. It meant they could dream about skiing serious mountains and if they were lucky enough to swing a vacation to one, the incremental cost of lift tickets was zero.

And so, Epic Passes sold like crazy.

They encouraged people to explore places they’d only dreamed of skiing and boarding. They spawned rivals from other ski company conglomerates. They drove price competition between heavy hitters Vail and Aspen and they drove down the price of skiing.

Unless you were an infrequent skier.

Because hand-in-hand with relatively inexpensive Epic Passes came nosebleed day ticket prices. And, at least in Whistler, the rapid disappearance of reasonablypriced, discounted day-ticket options.

Epic Passes became a my-way-or-thehighway entry to Vail Resorts properties.

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“How can we make people more comfortable on rolling the dice for the 202021 season,” mused someone in the Field of Brooms? “I know. Let’s offer to give them back all their money if they don’t use their pass or if we have to close the resort(s) for, oh, say, a month... make that a week during the season. Seems only fair.”

And thus begot Epic Coverage, a FREE (their caps) illusion of insurance for your Epic Pass, something that used to be an additional cost. I wonder if anyone in the Field was the least bit chagrined with the offer to refund 100 per cent of the cost of passes that weren’t used next season

bottlenecks loading for initial access. I’m sure I’ll get seven days in, seven being the number after which the Epic Coverage is worth zero.

I’m also pretty sure anyone who doesn’t live within a short drive of an Epic mountain is crazy if they buy one.

I believe air travel will be so arduous no one will want to do it if they don’t have to.

Arduous and expensive—no passengers in middle seats, food service replaced by the distribution of PPE and sanitizer.

I believe a second wave will keep the Canada-U.S. border closed until at least the end of the year. Epidemiologists from B.C.’s

How can we make people more comfortable on rolling the dice for the 2020-21 season?

when they only credited 80 per cent for last season? Probably not.

Thus the question is raised: Does it make sense to buy an Epic Pass for the coming season?

I’m pretty sure I will. But addictions are funny things. I believe the mountains will open in one form or another. I believe powder days will be impossible because of

own Saint Bonnie to those we see less often are convinced there will be a second wave of viral infection. It is already happening in the southern U.S. and, with any luck, at Trump rallies.

I believe international travel is a pipe dream. We’re hardly past getting our minds around interprovincial travel. Canada won’t face the same intense political pressure to

open the borders to international travel it will to easing restrictions for U.S. travel.

I believe the full effects of what’s happened since March have yet to hit global economies. When it does, people will think long and hard about expensive ski vacations.

The U.S. Fed and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development both issued warnings within the last two weeks warning of coming retractions, no quick return to “normal” and dire predictions should that second wave hit.

Even financial gurus suggest the latest rallies in financial markets are no cause for celebration. They point to lessons from the Depression, where markets rallied after Black Monday, 1929, and then, for two years between 1930 and 1932 suffered the worst meltdown in history. It ain’t over ‘til it’s over, folks.

So if the braintrust at Whistler Blackcomb/Vail Resorts plan to open for the coming season, they had probably do everything in their power to make nice with regional skiers... they same ones they’ve pissed off since buying WB, because therein lies salvation, if salvation lies anywhere.

And while I applaud them for figuring out how to open the bike park and mountain June 29 (if B.C. is in Phase 3 of its Restart Plan), I hope they can announce their plan ski season opening with a little more advance notice. Like I said, I’ll buy a pass. But I’m not the guy they’re pinning their hopes on for making a profit. I live in a ski resort. n

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