Pique Newsmagazine 2728

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Yes, labour trafficking & exploitation happens in the Sea to Sky Analyzing the issue and where to go for help

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HAZARDOUS HIGHWAY Two motorcyclists died in separate weekend accidents

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BIG MOVES Municipal strategy aims to zero in on Whistler’s greenhouse gas emissions

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ROCKIN’ RETURN

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38 Exploitation in the Sea to Sky Analyzing the issue and where to go for help. - By Jennifer Thuncher

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48 ROCKIN’ RETURN

ON SCHEDULE

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insight into what it’s like to be back on stage—and how they spent

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08 OPENING REMARKS Global, real-time experience is suggesting that using a face mask can save lives in this pandemic. As Whistler gets busier and busier, should local government make mask-wearing mandatory?

10 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR This week, a letter writer discusses the co-existence of grizzly bears and humans in the Sea to Sky area.

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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Writer Brandon Barrett acknowledges the impact the pandemic

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Please, wear a mask PHASE 3 has arrived in Whistler like a lion.

Those old, familiar traffic jams to get in and out of town are back. The parks, patios and paths around town were packed with walkers, cyclists, e-bike riders and people of every age as everyone escaped outside into the sunshine (all two days of it; sigh).

This past weekend, Whistlerites were out enjoying the rays, and so were thousands from the Lower Mainland and beyond.

I think it’s fair to say that our “open for business” message is being heard.

From appearances, it really looked like people had embraced the idea of expanding their bubbles—I’d say very enthusiastically.

BY CLARE OGILVIE edit@piquenewsmagazine.com

While I didn’t see groups of more than 50 people together as I biked around the Valley Trail, there were definitely some pretty sizable bubbles of people picnicking and partying.

It’s been a challenging four months and even the most patient of people have pentup energy—we all need to get out and about and reconnect. I get that.

Q&A with Sea to Sky medical health officer Dr. Geoff McKee this week, he said the messaging has differed somewhat in part because of the varying risks of transmission depending where you reside.)

But for the most part, those helping to guide us safely through this pandemic have been pretty clear recently about the importance of this.

These leaders include the medical director of the Whistler Health Care Centre (WHCC), Dr. Bruce Mohr, who sent me a passionate email this week encouraging me to get the message out about wearing masks—so I am doing just that: “YOU MUST WEAR A FACE MASK IF YOU CANNOT KEEP TWO METRES AWAY FROM SOMEONE!” People have called for the wearing of face masks to be mandated by our medical health officials. But we need to remember that for enforcement, the regulations must come from government.

Last week, a group led by Canadian doctors and scientists, Masks4Canada, called for face masks to be mandatory in all indoor spaces outside the home.

Dr. Amy Tan, one of the organizers of the group, told The Globe and Mail that making them mandatory would send a clear message that they can help.

“I do wear a mask myself and I encourage, and I recommend, strongly, that others do as well.”

- DR. BONNIE HENRY

What I don’t get is the lack of physical distancing and the lack of mask-wearing in shops, or even along the Village Stroll when we are all passing so close to each other that we cannot keep two metres apart, or when we are standing in line outside shops.

It is true that here in B.C. and across Canada, there was some mixed messaging about wearing face masks as we entered the pandemic as our new reality. (In a virtual

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“We think that mandating is not about harsh penalties or punishment,” said Tan, a family physician and an associate professor at the University of Calgary. “It’s really to say we need to do this for our economy, for our community, to keep us safe.”

Recent research does suggest face masks may help reduce the spread of COVID19, but there is no conclusive scientific evidence this is the case—that’s a big part

of the issue in getting people to wear masks.

B.C.’s Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said she supports wearing a face mask.

“I do wear a mask myself and I encourage, and I recommend, strongly, that others do as well,” she said during a June 30 provincial briefing, explaining that the province has stopped short of mandating the use of masks out of concern for those who would have difficulty wearing one.

June 30 saw Toronto City Council approve a temporary bylaw to enforce the use of face masks and coverings for indoor public spaces in an effort to reduce the rate of transmission. Ottawa council will consider something similar on July 15.

Henry said this might be something B.C. has to consider as we continue on this pandemic journey, especially as we head into flu season.

Mask-wearing can be uncomfortable and there are people who physically cannot wear them. They are not a replacement for handwashing, and staying home when sick.

But the anecdotal evidence that they help stop the spread of respiratory viruses like COVID-19 is growing stronger all the time and cannot be ignored.

Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization now recommend cloth masks for the general public, but the strongest evidence in favour of masks come from studies of real-world scenarios.

Several scientists looked at coronavirus deaths across 198 countries and found that those with cultural norms or government policies favouring mask-wearing had lower death rates (https://www.researchgate. net/publication/342198360_Association_ of_country-wide_coronavirus_mortality_ with_demographics_testing_lockdowns_ and_public_wearing_of_masks_Update_ June_15_2020).

As Whistler gets busier and busier, is it time for our municipal council to look at drawing up its own bylaw to help promote mask-wearing? n

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Supporting grizzly bear and human co-existence

Lower Mainland. That does not mean they are threatened or should be encouraged to populate Garibaldi Park or the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) interface.

That does not mean hikers can do whatever they want above the Flank.

The Alpine Club of Canada Whistler (ACCW) met this week with the RMOW to minimize the risk of conflict.

Our suggestion of better signage to discourage conflict and to increase hiker safety is going to happen. Signs will state [that people must] hike in groups with bear spray and no dogs. If a stressed bear is in the area, a warning will be posted.

Trails should not be closed or not built simply to encourage grizzly bears’ increased habitation. There were no [human] deaths [caused] by grizzly [bears] in 2020.

More relevant is [that this is despite the] tens of thousands who hike on the trails in the Lower Mainland each summer.

Michael Blaxland Chair, ACCW Access Committee n

It is interesting to see how the bear lobby has attempted to imply a difference of opinion between Brad Sills and the Alpine Club hikers (Letters to the Editor, Pique, June 18).

There is no difference—we both want to coexist with grizzly bears.

For years, the hikers who built the Skywalk and other trails above the Flank have known that grizzly bears are in the alpine. We have seen signs of the bears’ presence but no sightings or evidence of human-threatening behaviour.

Rather, the bears appear to be shy and avoid hikers. This is evidence of coexistence.

Grizzly bears appear not to be interested in living close to 3 million people in the

Our suggestion of better signage to discourage conflict and to increase hiker safety is going to happen. Signs will state [that people must] hike in groups with bear spray and no dogs. If a stressed bear is in the area, a warning will be posted.

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BY BRANDON BARRETT small that we can take certain elements of our lives for granted: Family, health, downtime, the importance of striking a healthy work-life balance.

One hopes that these hard-won epiphanies will stick once this is all over.

Hearing the relentless calls for justice and equality, both within our own borders and around the world, I’m optimistic that the legacy of this tumultuous period will be felt long after a vaccine arrives.

Another promising shift that has seemed to accelerate during the pandemic has been the ways in which we talk about mental health. We all know the devastating and widespread impact all this uncertainty has had, but the ubiquity of these stresses across our society has

also exposed the challenges of managing our well-being to those who may not be used to navigating them.

I see the shift in Whistler, too, a place that hasn’t always been conducive to open and honest discussions about mental health. I’ve written about this before in this space, but when I first landed in town as a cub reporter in my mid-twenties, I was immediately faced with the reality that Whistler wasn’t the Shangri-La I had expected moving to the winter mecca of North America. I wasn’t much of a skier, and still am not, which, especially in the early aughts when I arrived, ran counter to Whistler’s very raison d’etre.

You don’t ski or bike?, the incredulous local would ask me time and again, which was inevitably followed up by: So, uh, why are you here then?

It was such a minor but regular encounter that I couldn’t help but internalize it. Why was I here? And more importantly, why wasn’t I happy?

It was that shame, the sense that something must be wrong with me if I couldn’t find joy in paradise, which initially prevented me from seeking the help I needed. Sprinkle in a dose of internalized toxic masculinity—

exacerbated by the bro culture inherent to a sport-focused town like Whistler that tells you therapy is a sign of weakness— and it took me hitting rock bottom to finally make the call to a counsellor.

And boy, am I glad I did.

But what makes me even happier is seeing so many locals come to the same long-overdue realization I did: that it’s OK to not be OK. The proof is in the numbers. Like other social-service providers across the country, Whistler Community Services Society (WCSS) has seen an understandable explosion in demand for its services, most notably from locals who haven’t had to access its support before.

Taking that first step is no small feat, even during times of widespread societal crisis, and I applaud anyone who has built up the courage to ask for help. I think we can all agree it takes incredible strength to not just want to get better, but to definitively act on that desire.

WCSS and other local non-profits, like the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation, the Kelty Patrick Dennehy Foundation, Zero Ceiling, the Whistler Community Foundation, and Sea to Sky Community Services, have done such incredible work

to normalize mental-health issues that it finally feels like the conversation is moving from out of the shadows.

That was evident in March at the beginning of the pandemic when 24-yearold local Krystal Bonvie shared her struggles—which included a recent suicide attempt—with the 32,000-plus members of the Whistler Winter Facebook group. The post, raw, vulnerable and brave, elicited dozens of supportive comments and stories from others going through similar experiences.

The outpouring took me for a loop; accustomed to the vitriol and snark regularly found on social media, I had anticipated a less understanding response.

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Motorcycle fatalities underscore risks of navigating Highway 99 TWO MOTORCYCLISTS DIED IN SEPARATE ACCIDENTS ON JULY 3 AND 5 NEAR PEMBERTON; ANOTHER INJURED NEAR WHISTLER

BY BRANDON BARRETT A PAIR OF SERIOUS collisions on a stretch of Highway 99 that killed two motorcyclists this weekend underscores the risk of navigating the scenic roadway— particularly for inexperienced drivers.

“The Sea to Sky Highway is a fantastic highway to drive but it is something that needs to be driven. You can’t sit back and just assume that one hand on the steering wheel is going to get you from A to B,” said Whistler RCMP Staff Sgt. Paul Hayes, who is also an avid motorcyclist. “It’s a roadway that needs to be paid attention to at all times when you’re driving, and that’s regardless of whether you’re in a vehicle or on a motorcycle.”

Tragedy first struck Highway 99 near Pemberton late afternoon on Friday, July 3 when a motorcyclist travelling north lost control negotiating a corner, slid into the oncoming lanes and was struck by a southbound vehicle approximately 10 kilometres north of the In-SHUCK-CH Forest Service Road, police said.

The driver, a 31-year-old Vancouver man, succumbed to his injuries.

RASH OF CRASHES There were three accidents

involving motorcycles on Highway 99 this past weekend—including two fatalities near Pemberton and a rider who was launched off his bike near Function Junction, pictured, after rear-ending another vehicle, police said.

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The second fatal crash took place late Sunday morning, July 5, and involved multiple motorcyclists, according to witnesses who spoke to police.

Investigators said that four motorcyclists were heading north when up to three of them collided with a southbound vehicle roughly nine km north of Joffre Lakes Provincial Park.

One motorcyclist from the Lower Mainland was declared dead at the scene.

Motorcycle Shop owner Jamieson Murray believes it has more to do with riders’ experience levels and the increasing number of vehicles on the road.

“A lot of factors [are at play, including] inexperienced riders and poor road conditions, and a lot of people on the road, and with a lot of people on the road, there are distractions,” he said.

“I personally don’t ride on Friday, Saturday or Sunday because it’s a gong

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Two other motorcyclists and two individuals in the southbound vehicle were taken to hospital with what police said appear to be minor injuries, while a motorcycle passenger was airlifted to a Lower Mainland hospital with serious injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening.

A non-fatal motorcycle crash also occurred on Highway 99 near Function Junction in Whistler Saturday, July 4, engulfing the bike in flames. Hayes said the motorcyclist was speeding at the time and was unable to manoeuvre around a vehicle and rear-ended it, launching him off the bike.

While speeding can play a significant role in motorcycle accidents, Squamish

show on the highway. People who take those risks, the accidents that are happening, are taking place on the weekend. And now with COVID, everyone is getting out and going north.”

Conditions can also be challenging for motorcyclists along Highway 99, particularly the further north you travel, with gravel accumulating on the road shoulders and around blind corners that can make them difficult to navigate.

“Unlike a car, when a bike leans into a corner there’s only so much contact between the tire and the ground and you’re more susceptible to sliding on loose gravel, loose dirt and it’s just how it is up there,” Murray said. “It’s the Duffey. I’ve been

saying that for years; it’s not a new thing.

People who hear about doing the Duffey Lake loop don’t realize that road conditions change as you go further north.”

Miller Capilano Highway Services, which did not return a request for comment by press time, is contracted to maintain the section of road where the two fatal accidents occurred this weekend. But Murray believes it is unreasonable to expect any mountain pass roadway to be maintained frequently enough to keep it clear of gravel and other debris.

“It is [Miller Capilano’s] responsibility to keep it clean and safe, but you would have to be doing it every day,” he said.

“You can only maintain so much. It’s like blaming the road crews for not keeping the Coquihalla [Highway] clear. But I think if there was a place for a lot of these riders to go … a racetrack or something throughout the Sea to Sky corridor, I think that would draw less speeding and less accidents on the highway.”

Brian Antonio, school director for ProRide Motorcycle Training in North Vancouver, urged motorcyclists to expect the unexpected when riding a roadway like Highway 99.

“If you’re out there riding in a way that isn’t compatible with something you’re not expecting, then you can expect to get in trouble,” he said. “I don’t ride those roads every day, so when I do get out there, I don’t expect it to be the same as it was the last time. So going around those blind turns or corners, you’ve got to be really cautious about what might be there that wasn’t there before.” n

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The visitors are returning, but what does the fall hold?

MLA STURDY PROVIDES UPDATE TO WHISTLER COUNCIL

BY BRADEN DUPUIS WHILE WHISTLER AND the Sea to Sky were effectively closed for business in midMarch due to COVID-19, Phase 3 of B.C.’s restart plan is now in full swing, and the visitors are returning in droves.

“I know we’ve been busy at [North Arm Farm], busier than we’ve ever really been on a daily basis I think at this time of year,” said MLA Jordan Sturdy, who also owns the Pemberton farm, at the July 7 Committee of the Whole meeting held over Zoom.

“Depending on the weather, of course, we may find that we will have a very busy summer.”

That being said, the longer-term outlook of COVID-19 and its impacts remains murky at best—whether that be the timing of the anticipated “second wave” or the opening of the U.S. border.

“I think we’re all concerned about what happens beyond the summertime, beyond August, and what that means for our restaurants,” Sturdy said, noting that many local farms rely on restaurants and hotels to pay their mortgages through the winter.

“We just don’t really know what that future holds for our business.”

Like other employers, farmers have had “real challenges” in terms of accessing workers, Sturdy added.

“We just do not have the staffing that we need to have,” he said. “That’s something we’ve been talking about from a personal perspective, but also from a political perspective with our federal counterparts, and trying to get better access to labour.”

On that front, Sturdy noted that MP Patrick Weiler was able to finish a job started by his predecessor Pamela GoldsmithJones, and provide Whistler with better labour-market data.

In the past, business leaders have argued Whistler should not be lumped in with the Vancouver mainland southwest catchment (which has an unemployment rate of about six per cent, where Whistler’s was actually closer to two per cent, pre-COVID-19). “[The data] is a little more granular, so we’re able to better understand what our employment situation, what our EI situation is … Hopefully it will give us an opportunity to make better arguments for changes to some of these seasonal agriculture worker or seasonal [Temporary Foreign Worker] or the holiday workers visa programs and other areas,” Sturdy said.

Sturdy joined the meeting to provide a general update on legislature business and other issues, including the province’s COVID-19 response.

“Clearly we’re doing something right from a public health perspective, “ Sturdy

said, pointing to the alarming discrepancy between case numbers and deaths in B.C. and neighbouring Washington state.

“My perspective on that is just that this is certainly a strong case for a public health system, and how you can manage things in a coordinated fashion as opposed to an ad hoc, private approach.”

In Whistler, the need for family doctors hasn’t dropped off the radar, either.

“There’s a number of us who have been trying to develop a plan to improve the business case for family practice and provide better service to the residents of Whistler,” Sturdy said.

With so many venturing outside in recent weeks, access to and staffing of parks has also continued to be an issue.

Of frustration for Sturdy is the fact that Garibaldi Provincial Park has yet to open, he said, noting that he wrote to the minister about the park but didn’t receive a “very satisfying answer.”

“I’d very much like to see that reconsidered and opened up,” he said.

On that note, Councillor Cathy Jewett raised concerns with the amount of personnel in provincial parks.

“We’re very fortunate it’s wet so far, but if we had a situation where we had a tinderdry backcountry, [it would] be another story, because the amount of people that are using official and unofficial campsites right now is phenomenal,” Jewett said, adding that there was a time when park rangers would come to your backcountry campfire to share natural history and safety lessons.

“It would be great to see that sort of thing again,” she said. “I’m not holding my breath, but with the numbers of people coming up from the Lower Mainland, we’re going to need something in our local backcountry parks.”

Sturdy agreed, pointing out the government’s parks budget is just $45 million, while the B.C. parks system itself is the “third biggest parks system in North America” after Canada and the U.S. “So we need more resourcing, and I’ve always advocated that if we were to double the parks budget to $90 million … it would serve our province well,” Sturdy said.

“Unfortunately this year the budget for 2020-2021 was actually a reduction in the parks budget by about a million dollars.”

Sturdy also noted that the current conversation around the ever-popular Joffre Lakes Provincial Park is about instituting a day-use fee of $5.

“This is something that, while I’m not adamant that it is a bad idea, I do think it’s a bad idea to target one park,” he said. “I think this is worthy of a provincial discussion.

If we’re going to start charging for day use in parks, OK, but let’s have a conversation about that provincially.” n

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RMOW banks on ‘big moves’ to reverse course on greenhouse gas emissions CLIMATE ACTION BIG MOVES STRATEGY ENDORSED BY COUNCIL

BY BRADEN DUPUIS CAN SOME “big moves” help the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) get back on course for its climate goals?

While from 2008 to 2012 the municipality made good progress on its greenhouse gas reduction targets—33 per cent by 2020, 80 per cent by 2050, and 90 per cent by 2060, all below 2007 levels—the momentum was short-lived.

Emissions rose an average of 4.7 per cent every year from 2014 to 2017, and while a three-per-cent drop in 2018 was a step in the right direction, the municipality’s climate targets have been out of reach for some time.

Enter the new Climate Action Big Moves Strategy, endorsed by council on July 7. The strategy aims to zero in on transportation, buildings and waste, which together account for more than 90 per cent of Whistler’s greenhouse gas emissions, and sets out some new targets for the municipality.

“What we really want to be doing is

focusing our GHG reduction efforts where they matter most,” said environmental stewardship manager Heather Beresford in a presentation to council.

“The Community Energy and Climate Action Plan (CECAP) was a fantastic document; it still is … but it’s so large and not really well prioritized. It was hard to be able to put our efforts where we were going to get the most results.”

While the CECAP, with its 130 actions for mitigation and adaptation, remains Whistler’s comprehensive climate plan, the new strategy “allows us to prioritize that, and really put our efforts where we’re going to get the biggest results, and accelerate our actions on climate,” Beresford said.

GO BIG OR GO HOME True to its name, the strategy outlines six “big moves” for the next 10 years: Move beyond the car (by 2030, 50 per cent of all trips in Whistler are by transit or active transport); decarbonize passenger and commercial transport (by 2030, 50 per cent of all vehicle kilometres travelled are from zero-emission vehicles); reduce visitor travel emissions (by 2030, Whistler

demonstrates leadership in redefining tourism in a low-carbon world); build zero-emission buildings (by 2030, all new buildings achieve the top step in B.C.’s Energy Step Code, use only low carbon heating systems, and embodied carbon emissions drop by 40 per cent); make existing buildings better (by 2030, reduce emissions from residential buildings by 20 per cent and from large commercial buildings by 40 per cent); and close the loop and shift toward lower-carbon consumption (by 2030, reduce waste-sector emissions by 95 per cent and reduce embodied emissions from products and services).

It’s an ambitious strategy, with a handful of key initiatives listed under each big move.

To list just a few: increasing transit service while keeping fares affordable, and continuing to work on regional transit; expanding public EV charging stations, while increasing parking costs for combustion vehicles; and addressing barriers to retrofitting homes, including initial costs and a lack of knowledge, service providers, financing and incentives (find the full strategy at whistler.ca/bigmoves).

Following council’s endorsement,

the next step will be to develop a detailed implementation, financial and monitoring plan, followed by engagement with experts and stakeholders on specific key initiatives and projects.

A final Big Moves Strategy will then be drawn up and presented to council in the fall.

Funding for the project comes from the provincial Climate Action Revenue Incentive Program (CARIP), which provides local governments with funding equal to 100 per cent of the carbon taxes paid on fossil fuel use related to corporate operations.

TARGET ACQUIRED The strategy acknowledges that Whistler’s existing GHG reduction targets will not be met, and sets a new target for the coming decade.

The new recommended 2030 target for Whistler is a 50-per-cent GHG reduction below 2007 emissions, meaning that by 2030, emissions are capped at 66,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent, said new climate action coordinator Luisa Burhenne, who

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“We think that we need a shorterterm target, a 2030 target, to create this urgency, to create this sense of we need to act now, to accelerate our actions,” said Burhenne, who holds a doctorate in applied science—bioenergy, and most recently worked for a firm specializing in carbon and sustainability consulting.

“We have discussed this internally and also with the CECAP advisory group, and we felt very strongly that we have to align our new 2030 target with the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] recommendation, that says if we want to stabilize global warming at 1.5 degrees, which we want for an equitable and sustainable society, then we have to reduce our emissions by 45 per cent below 2010 levels.”

The provincial target is to achieve 40-per-cent reduction below 2007 levels, and the City of Vancouver’s target is a 50-per-cent reduction, Burhenne added.

If successful, the RMOW estimates the Big Moves Strategy could achieve a 36-percent reduction from 2007 levels—about 72-per-cent of the way to the 50-per-cent reduction target.

“To close that gap, we need more action, more initiatives by the municipal, federal and provincial governments,” Burhenne said.

But to really be successful, the

municipality must embed its reduction targets into its decision making and planning “from the get go,” she added, noting that one idea being discussed is a “carbon budget” to serve as an accountability framework similar to one being developed by the City of Vancouver.

THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM For a long time, Councillor Arthur De Jong has referred to Whistler’s dependence on airtravelling, carbon-burning visitors as “the elephant in the room” when it comes to its climate goals.

While the elephant is acknowledged in Big Move No. 3, it’s not about to be shunted from the room anytime soon.

“We’ve kept this one intentionally highlevel. We recognize that this is not a topic that the RMOW can tackle on its own, (and) this is really acknowledging an Achilles heel for our community,” Beresford said.

“So at this point, we want to acknowledge that while we’re going to be focusing on work that we can do here in our own community, we do want to participate in conversations with our local tourism partners, regional, provincial and global, … to look at how do we redefine tourism in a low-carbon world.”

External emissions from visitors aren’t something the RMOW can control, but “we can influence by leading by example, and by engaging, and by helping to develop plans,

tool kits, educational tools,” Burhenne added.

“And this is really something we will identify in more detail in the implementation plan—who are the key people to talk to and what are the actions that may have influence.”

Another longtime pet peeve of De Jong’s (who oversees Whistler’s environment portfolio) is the fact that local governments cannot directly legislate GHG waste reduction bylaws—also acknowledged in the strategy, Beresford said.

“We think that where Whistler can have more success with that is to work with other communities who are trying to do the same thing, and perhaps [the Union of BC Municipalities] is a vehicle,” she said.

“We will have more strength as a collaborative of communities.”

A LENGTHY DISCUSSION Council had many questions about the strategy, with each council member weighing in over an extended discussion.

While the prospect of new technologies is “very exciting,” it’s unlikely there are any immediate developments that will help the RMOW achieve its goals, Burhenne said.

“That’s my background, renewable energy technologies, but I also think as a municipality, it’s very important to have something reliable and proven to lower the risks,” she said.

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“How effective were those, what was the payback, what was the return on investment?”

Such a report was done about eight or 10 years ago on municipal facilities, said general manager of corporate and community services Ted Battiston, adding that the biggest single investment the RMOW has ever made in a municipal facility was with the $930,000 solar and geo-exchange system installed at the Meadow Park Sports Centre in 2010.

“I do believe that we hit that payback period in six or seven years, and now we are saving well more than $100,000 a year in operational costs in that building every year since that time,” Battiston said.

“But your point is well taken, and we do track for RMOW facilities ... we can certainly strive to bring that back to council’s attention.”

As for avoiding passing eco fads and ensuring the best bang for the municipal buck, “I hear you, Councillor Forsyth,” Beresford said. “But we don’t have time anymore to be doing things that are not going to work.”

Watch the full discussion at https:// www.whistler.ca/municipal-gov/council/ meeting-agendas-and-minutes. ■

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COVID-19 will lead to restructuring of transit schedule FALL SCHEDULE COULD SEE RAMPED-UP NO. 10 ROUTE, ALONG WITH REDUCED SERVICE INTO SOME NEIGHBOURHOODS

BY BRANDON BARRETT IN LIGHT OF COVID-19, BC Transit and the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) have accelerated the timeline for restructuring the fall transit schedule— and they are looking for the community’s input.

Presenting at the July 7 virtual meeting of council, RMOW transportation demand management coordinator Emma DalSanto explained that the two organizations, which share transit costs, are hoping to facilitate the ongoing return of riders to the system while contending with an estimated loss of $1 million in local revenue brought on by the pandemic.

“How do we get our community back on transit? What will make them feel comfortable? Our community was saying the top aspect was the No. 10 Valley Express,” explained DalSanto.

Introduced in the winter of 2018/19, the No. 10 is a commuter-oriented service running in morning and afternoon peak periods that primarily travels along Highway 99 and does not enter the village.

The route appeals to riders who want to limit their time on the bus during the pandemic, DalSanto said.

“So we knew that people would want to interact with others for less time and the best way to do that on our service right now—you have to walk more but if you ride the No. 10, you can stay on the bus for less time.”

With that in mind, officials are looking to rejig the Spring-Summer-Fall base service, which, if approved, would begin in September, to reallocate service hours to the No. 10, while reducing mid-day service on the 20 and 30 routes from every 30 minutes to every hour. Routes 20X and 32 would be temporarily suspended until the early-winter schedule kicks in. The restructuring would mean both Spruce Grove and White Gold would lose direct transit service, but would still be accessible—albeit with more walking time tacked on—by the No. 10, which is proposed to run at 25- and 35-minute frequency, depending on the time of day, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Alpine Meadows and Nordic Estates would also lose direct service between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

“I would like to thank Ms. DalSanto for all her work on this exciting project of bringing more 10s to the valley,” said Coun.

Jen Ford.

“The 10 is a success. I love it, I ride it often and it’s a great addition to the valley.”

Following the presentation, Mayor Jack Crompton wondered if the revised No. 10 service could include stops in the village to allow for easier transfers to connecting routes.

“I would say alignment as the No. 10 goes through the village is something I’d like to see. I do understand your point about congestion through the village, and that makes some sense to me, but if we’re going to drive ridership, I think alignment of the 20 and the 30 with the No. 10 will really help deliver that,” he said, addressing DalSanto.

Unsurprisingly, ridership took a nosedive after Whistler Blackcomb announced its closure for the season on March 15—the biggest dropoff of any BC Transit community. The number of average daily rides fell from slightly more than 12,000 for the week of March 8, to roughly half that the following week, and plunging to less than 2,000 by the end of the month, a trend that continued through late May. More recently, however, DalSanto was heartened to see ridership numbers steadily begin to climb as B.C. moved further into Phase 3 of its recovery plan.

“We have seen that our ridership is actually increasing and I was so excited last week when I saw it,” she said. “Our daily ridership numbers have actually increased to a number I hadn’t seen since March.”

Now, BC Transit is working with the RMOW to launch a website and engagement process planned for this month to inform the community of the proposed schedule changes. The Transit Management Advisory Committee will review the public feedback and decide either to proceed with the newly revised Spring-Summer-Fall schedule for Sept.

8, or to maintain the existing transit schedule until spring 2021, which would allow for a more traditional public engagement process.

Whatever is decided, officials will be working on a tight timeline.

“Normally to do a change of this scope would take months; even just the public engagement would take at least two months,” DalSanto relayed. “Here we are trying to do everything with implementation by September, so that is quite fast.”

Whistler Transit is a $13-million-ayear service, $7.014 million of which is the responsibility of the RMOW in 2020. Staff estimates the proposed schedule changes would result in a cost savings of $180,000, on top of another $550,000 in savings thanks to BC Transit foregoing monthly lease fees for local governments. n

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Whistlerites invited to series of COVID townhalls COUNCIL BRIEFS: Q1 FINANCE REPORT SHOWS CALM BEFORE STORM; RESOLUTION TO RENAME SQUAW VALLEY CRESCENT Participants are also asked to get a head start on the conversation by heading to https://my.thoughtexchange. com/708646825 and responding to the question “What are some of the things that have been top of your heart and mind during Whistler’s COVID-19 experience?”

Participants can then rate others’ answers, with those ratings being used to determine key issues, themes and the importance of the thoughts and ideas being shared.

Zoom details and registration information will be available at whistler.ca/ communityconversations.

BY BRADEN DUPUIS THE RESORT Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is kicking off a series of community conversations about the impacts of COVID-19.

Whistlerites are invited to take part in four virtual town hall meetings over Zoom this month, July 14, 16, 20 and 23, each with a different theme.

The meetings, hosted by Mayor Jack Crompton, chief administrative officer Virginia Cullen and a rotating cast of guests, will start with a short overview before participants break off into separate “rooms” to talk about specific questions.

“I am really excited to connect with and listen to our community in a new way. We want to build a solid understanding about what is happening in Whistler as we manage the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and look towards recovery,” Crompton said in a release.

“The RMOW has been engaged with residents, business and community groups since the start of the pandemic but we want to hear from as many people as possible to really understand how COVID19 is affecting all aspects of our community because we still may not know about some

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of those impacts.”

The themes, based off of Whistler’s updated guiding vision, are Sense of Place (July 14, 4 to 5:30 p.m., co-hosted

by Heather Paul); Environment (July 16, 5 to 6:30 p.m., co-hosted by Mike Douglas); Tourism-based economy (July 20, 4 to 5:30 p.m., co-hosted by Danielle Kristmanson); and Community (July 23, 5 to 6:30 p.m., co-hosted by Chris Wrightson).

“Our goal is to collaborate with the community on potential solutions to the challenges we face,” Crompton said.

“Our challenges cannot be fixed unilaterally by the RMOW, or any level of government. This is an all-hands effort and it will take individuals, families, businesses, community groups and government to deliver a shared response that is up to the challenge.”

Q1 FINANCE REPORT SHOWS CALM BEFORE THE STORM While Whistler’s financial outlook is a wildly different picture halfway through 2020 than it was at the outset of the year thanks to COVID-19, the first three months of the fiscal year were mostly on par with previous years.

Revenues were at nine per cent and expenditures 26 per cent of their annual budgeted amounts (compared to seven per cent and 25 per cent, respectively, at the same point last year), according to a report to council July 7 from director of finance Carlee Price.

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NEWS WHISTLER Though the RMOW’s 2020 Q1 finances were generally comparable to last year, the effects of COVID-19 began to creep in mid-March.

“As you are well aware, the COVID-19 pandemic began to affect our community at the end of the first quarter, so this really is sort of the last quarter of normal-ish operations that we should expect for the full year 2020,” Price said.

Revenue losses from the March 17 closure of municipal facilities, like the Whistler Public Library and Meadow Park Sports Centre, will likely hit harder in Q2, as will the loss of municipal and regional district tax (MRDT) payments.

“The province of B.C. announced a deferment of tax payment which included MRDT amounts to Sept. 30; this meant the hotels were no longer required to remit MRDT amounts to the province,” Price said.

“This was effective March 23, and so our quarterly MRDT payment for March, our monthly MRDT payment, was affected.”

While the RMOW collected $2,060,724 (or 15.3 per cent) of the $13,431,911 budgeted for 2020 MRDT and Resort Municipality Initiative payments by the end of Q1, the pandemic will make future MRDT payments “particularly difficult to predict both in size and timing,” according to the report.

Project spending at the end of Q1 was at 18.6 per cent of the annual budgeted amount, well above the five-year Q1 average of 5.5 per cent.

“The reasons for this are multiple; we

did undertake a very meaningful project reprioritization exercise in the first quarter that adjusted many of these project budgets downward, and also moved some projects from 2020 into 2021,” Price said.

“We also had two very large projects in the first quarter that were already near completion. These included some carryovers from 2019, specifically the Meadow Park Sports Centre cardio room and the swimming pool HVAC replacement.”

RESOLUTION INTRODUCED TO RENAME SQUAW VALLEY CRESCENT Also at the July 7 meeting, council passed a resolution to begin the renaming process for Squaw Valley Crescent in Creekside (see Pique, July 3, “Whistler council to start renaming process for Squaw Valley Crescent”).

The resolution, passed unanimously, directs staff to develop an engagement and naming process for renaming Squaw Valley Crescent and to return to council at an upcoming meeting for further consideration and direction to proceed.

“I think it’s a pity it took us this long to take action on it, but I’m very happy to see us moving forward on it,” said Coun.

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OUTSTANDING STUDENT This award is given to a Gr. 12 student who has excelled in a variety of areas throughout their high school years. They are among the top scholars, athletes, artists and civic-minded individuals in our school community. They are role models for others and they exemplify what Whistler Secondary School is all about.

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Athletics Above & Beyond Halle Duke Grade 10: Yearbook: Sydney Blackwell,

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Coaches Volleyball Award has been given to the athlete who led the team in their actions on and off the court. This athlete is consistent and demonstrates a very strong work ethic. They were always a good sport and contributed to a positive team spirit and culture. As a resilient and effective athlete, they made a significant difference to the outcomes of the team.

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Sea to Sky health officer answers all your COVID-19 questions HEALTH REGION COMPRISING CORRIDOR HAS HAD 18 CONFIRMED CASES SO FAR

BY BRANDON BARRETT THE MEDICAL HEALTH officer for the Sea to Sky took to Facebook Live this week to answer residents’ questions on COVID-19.

First off, Dr. Geoff McKee provided an overview of the situation, both locally and provincially, applauding British Columbians for following the recommended health guidelines that helped to flatten the curve.

“British Columbians have come together and done an amazing, exceptional job at listening to public health advice and really making a lot of changes in their lives and doing what they can to protect themselves, their families as well as their communities,” he said.

While unable to provide communityspecific figures due to privacy regulations, across Vancouver Coastal Health’s (VCH) Howe Sound health area, which stretches from Lions Bay through the Sea to Sky up to parts of the southern St’atl’mx Nation, McKee said there have so far been 18 labconfirmed cases of COVID-19. There are also currently no active cases in the Sea to Sky.

Even with those promising numbers, however, McKee said it is not the time to grow complacent.

“We need to continue to be vigilant and take precautions, as these are only the cases we know about based on testing and there will continue to be risk, really, until we get a treatment or a vaccine,” he noted.

Answering a question about what safely

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expanding our social bubble might look like as B.C. moves through Phase 3 of its recovery plan, McKee said it would look different depending on your situation and risk tolerance.

“The key piece here is about being careful and being thoughtful about how we do it,” he noted, adding that health authorities continue to recommend against large social gatherings. “As we continue to move into

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“These are things we are still continuing to learn about, particularly around the degree of immunity after infection of COVID-19, but it’s also going to be very important for the development of vaccines,” he said. “In general, there is some evidence developing that there is immunity following

Emergency Community Support Fund Thank you to the following organizations for your commitment to serving vulnerable populations in our area: Whistler Community Services, Zero Ceiling, Howe Sound Women’s Centre, Sea to Sky Community Services, Whistler Adaptive, and Whistler Multicultural Society.

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said that travel both within B.C. and between provinces “can be done in a way that reduces risk” as long as “we have public health measures implemented in our businesses, throughout our communities as well as travellers continuing to adhere to precautions and being respectful when they’re visiting.”

He urged anyone thinking of travelling this summer to research the places they plan to visit beforehand “to ensure you understand that community’s expectations, what’s open and not, etc.”

Visitors should try to keep their stays short, and prepare to be as self-sufficient as possible.

“If you’re going camping in the Sea to Sky, try going grocery shopping before you go. It’s one less stop to the store while you’re there,” he said. “If you come prepared, you can be in a better place to reduce your risk and the risk you bring into the community.”

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NEWS WHISTLER

New campaign emphasizes mental-health changes are ‘Part of Our Nature’ INITIATIVE FROM KATZ AMSTERDAM, WB FOUNDATIONS WILL CONNECT PUBLIC TO SOCIAL SERVICES

BY BRANDON BARRETT A NEW CAMPAIGN and website from the Katz Amsterdam and Whistler Blackcomb foundations seeks to remove the stigma around mental-health challenges and knock down barriers to accessing needed support and services.

Recognizing the rise in demand for mental and social support during the COVID-19 pandemic, the two foundations teamed up to launch the month-long media campaign, entitled Part of Our Nature, as well as a website that will connect residents in four mountain communities where Vail Resorts operates—Whistler (and the Sea to Sky); Summit County, Utah; Summit County, Colo.; and Tahoe-Truckee, Calif.

“Our whole campaign is Part of Our Nature, basically saying that changes in our mental health are part of our nature,” explained Mei Madden, executive director of the Whistler Blackcomb Foundation (WBF). “When we came up with it, we wanted to appeal to a very wide demographic group.”

The online, radio and print campaign utilizes images of mountain wildlife to convey its messaging. For instance, in one ad, a bear is pictured with the caption: “It’s OK to hibernate right now, but check up on each other.” Another features a bluebird, with the accompanying text: “It’s always a bluebird day for me, but that doesn’t mean every day is sunny.”

“The use of an animal is powerful, it’s personal, it’s kind of non-threatening. It’s got a bit of levity and humour to it and it translates across all age groups,” Madden noted.

The website, partofournature.org/ whistler, will also link to a wide range of available services in the corridor, divided into separate categories, such as mental health outreach support, food and shelter services, support for those fleeing domestic violence, and broader government wellness resources.

“We’re keeping an eye on it so if there are better links that come out, [we’ll add them],” Madden explained. “We’re just basically doing the work for them so it’s a one-stop shop and it’s fairly easy and accessible.”

Locally, the Whistler Community

Services Society (WCSS) has seen an explosion in demand across multiple services it offers in recent months.

Outreach workers have made 875 connections with community members since the pandemic hit in mid-March, with a troubling increase in the number of people in crisis.

In February, pre-COVID-19, just 15 per cent of WCSS clients accessing services were “in crisis.” That number rose to 42 per cent in March, and 57 per cent in April.

Numbers have yet to be compiled for May and June.

In that time, the WCSS-operated Whistler Food Bank has handed out 3,000 emergency food bags—just three shy of the entire total for 2019.

“I would say it’s the unknowns that people are having trouble dealing with.

The uncertainty, and the quick changes of things,” interim WCSS executive director Lori Pyne told Pique in an interview last week.

Both prior to and during the pandemic, the WBF and Katz Amsterdam Foundation—founded by Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz and his wife, bestselling author Elana Amsterdam—have stepped

up in significant ways to help fund local social-service providers. Madden estimated the WBF has granted about $200,000 to organizations across the Sea to Sky since the pandemic began, while the Katz Amsterdam Foundation provided US$2.5 million in immediate COVID-19 support to both Vail Resorts’ employees and the mountain communities where it operates—including CAD$100,000 in March to WCSS and $100,000 to WBF’s COVID-19 relief fund.

Madden said the WBF has also approached several Sea to Sky non-profits during the pandemic to identify gaps in service so it can funnel funds in the appropriate direction.

“What I’ve heard is that this has been started a few other times, but at the end, when there’s an outcome or something that needs to be done in the corridor, there’s no funding,” she added. “There are so many different organizations, and it’s not that people have been working in siloes, but depending on what we’re focusing on, it’s nice to try and get the overall big picture.”

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Village of Pemberton receives funding for soccer pitch COUNCIL BRIEFS: MEETINGS TO BE ONLINE FOR NEAR FUTURE

BY DAN FALLOON IT’LL SOON BE EASIER to get your kicks in Pemberton.

The federal government announced July 3 that the Village of Pemberton (VOP) has been awarded $3.09 million from the Community, Culture and Recreation Infrastructure Stream (CCRIS) from its Investing in Canada Plan.

In a release, the VOP noted the total project cost as just north of $4.22 million,

FIELD OF DREAMS A second soccer field is coming to Pemberton Farm Road East.

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with the remaining funding coming from the Village’s Community Amenity Contributions, the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, and developer and community contributions.

Mayor Mike Richman said in a July 5 interview that he’s pleased to get the project underway without dipping into any VOP taxpayer contributions.

“It’s nice to be able to put a project of this size together and not have to go to taxation for it and burden the taxpayer,” he said.

Richman hopes to get the project out for tender soon and ideally begin construction this year.

“The good news is the site has already been pre-loaded, so we’ve been working

in this direction for a while,” he said.

“Depending on the contractor, I’m hopeful that we’ll get it built this year if all goes well.

The field has to sit close to a year before you can actually play on it, so if we can get it done by the fall, in an ideal world, next year we can have some play on it.”

The project itself, located on Pemberton Farm Road East, will include a grass soccer field, water well for irrigation, fencing and lighting, as well as an amenity building with washrooms, changerooms, storage and concessions.

With one field already onsite, Richman said it will be able to accommodate tournament play and could potentially become a greater recreation hub for the Village, noting that it’s easier to successfully

apply for grants with existing infrastructure.

“We’ve contemplated a bike skills park on there, a baseball diamond, and, if we can afford it, if funds allow, there’s room for a rink and a multiplex building there as well,” he said. “That is the future of recreation for our valley.”

The federal Investing in Canada plan received $44.5 million in federal funding, $19.2 million from the provincial government and more than $23 million from applicants and is being dispersed in two streams: the CCRIS and the Rural and Northern Communities Infrastructure Stream (RNCIS).

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Meanwhile, N’Quatqua First Nation earned funding for a multiuse facility through the RNCIS. The 1,297-square-metre building will include a gymnasium, offices, cultural reception areas, fitness centre and cultural chamber. The facility will be built incorporating green technology and sustainable business practices.

MEETINGS COULD BE HELD ELECTRONICALLY FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE Council meetings won’t be back in chambers in some capacity until at least the fall.

In her report presented to council at its June 30 meeting held via Zoom, Manager of Corporate and Legislative Services Sheena Fraser responded to Ministerial Order No. 192 (M192), which came down from the provincial

While some other jurisdictions are leaning toward reopening, the VOP is looking to continue holding its meetings via Zoom. Fraser noted in her report that council chambers are small, only 32 square metres, with the council table further reducing that area to 30 sq. m. To adhere to the recommended allowance of five sq. m. of “unencumbered space” per person, only six people could physically attend the meetings.

Alternatives such as the Squamish Lillooet Regional District boardroom would only allow for nine total attendees, while the Pemberton and District Community Centre would saddle the municipality with rental fees for the space, tables, chairs and, possibly, a sound system in addition to increased cleaning procedures.

Fraser noted that the Zoom webinar format has worked well and fulfills all the public access requirements.

During the meeting, Fraser added that the available options would still require staff and/or members of the public to attend electronically, while renting school gymnasiums would be cost-prohibitive, especially when they’re shut for summer.

Richman supported the motion, but acknowledged he’s itching to get back to normal.

“For me, I do look forward to getting back into a room. I like the fact that through the webinar, we are getting attendees and it

“It’s nice to be able to put a project of this size together and not have to go to taxation for it and burden the taxpayer.”

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government on June 17. The order is part of the province’s restart plan and encourages local governments to resume normal operations as much as possible. “[The order] removes the ability for a local government to give readings and adopt bylaws (other than certain financial bylaws) at one meeting and requires that local government make ‘best efforts’ to allow the public to attend open meetings in-person while still ensuring the public health orders and recommendations are being adhered to. M192 also establishes that if a local government is not able to accommodate the attendance of the public in person a resolution must be passed stating the reason for holding meetings without the public and noting how openness, transparency, accessibility and accountability are being met,” Fraser wrote in her report.

The order also rescinds council’s blanket ability to pass bylaws during the same meeting as third reading, which council used to pass its financial bylaws this year.

Recognizing that some bylaws are critical to the “financial health and operation” of a municipality, 10 bylaws under the Community Charter or Local Government Act are still eligible for expedited approval.

is available on our website,” he said. “But I miss the live interaction of it and if this is the case through the summer and into the fall, it sounds like we could be doing this for quite some time.

“I’m happy to support this, but as the weeks and months go by, I’d like to look at other options, even if it might mean a budget being put toward renting a bigger space.”

Coun. Amica Antonelli said she’s received positive feedback regarding electronic meetings, as residents can tune in while also doing other tasks like cooking dinner.

“They don’t have to come to the building to stay informed,” she said.

Council voted to hold meetings electronically throughout July, and will revisit the issue when it returns from the August recess.

Noting that they’re “practical,” Richman hopes to keep online streams going even after council is again meeting in person.

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ECOLOGIC

Choking on it THESE DAYS, it would be hard not to know about microplastics, yet another word added to the growing lexicon of Anthropocene phenomena. Defined as particles less than five millimetres in size, microplastics have now been found in all of Earth’s aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

As a result of this ubiquity, all water and food supplies now contain microplastics; our bodies expel some of these but absorb others with a range of negative effects. The problem’s scale is massive: the combined rate of consumption plus inhalation of microplastic particles has been estimated for adults to be 74,000 to 121,000 annually, to which can be added an extra 90,000 annually

BY LESLIE ANTHONY for those who regularly drink bottled water (if you don’t care about the aquifer drawdowns or pollution caused by bottled water, you should at least care about this).

With the breakdown products of plastic food and beverage packaging, as well as clothing manufacturing and washing/drying being main sources for microplastics to find their way into the environment, there’s been a welcome push to examine each of these usages and to rapidly seek solutions. In the meantime, however, the amount of plastic that has flowed into the global environment since we began mass-producing it in the 1950s remains staggering—an estimated 11 billion metric tons are projected to have accumulated by 2025.

concentration of microplastic particles in Arctic snow was lower than that of snow sampled from the European Alps, but still substantial enough to warrant worry (enough that I will no longer melt snow for drinking water without filtering it).

Thus, it was almost anticlimactic to read a new paper in the journal Science last week reporting that literally no place on Earth is safe from plastic pollution, including national parks and protected areas that we might assume to be less contaminated than other areas.

A team led by Janice Brahney of the Department of Watershed Science at Utah State University showed that some of the most isolated national parks and national wilderness areas in the American west accumulate large amounts of microplastic particles transported by wind and rain.

Furthermore—and again, unsurprisingly— most of these comprise fragmented synthetic microfibres of the type used to make clothing (in case you’re already thinking this, the majority weren’t shed by park users). These findings further underline the importance of reducing pollution from such materials but also the impossibility of stopping their effects and redistribution on the landscape once the pollution has occurred.

Though they weren’t first to show atmospheric deposition of microplastics, the scientists’ interest in the different atmospheric “life history” scenarios behind deposition in wet versus dry conditions has made them first to answer the basic scientific questions of why and how this happens. To start, they were able to show that urban centres, as well as resuspension from soils or water, are principal sources

... literally no place on Earth is safe from plastic pollution One well-known example: of the over 300 million tons of plastics produced worldwide each year—50 per cent of which is for short-term, single-use purposes—over 8 million tons makes its way into the oceans, either directly or through freshwater ecosystems, where it will last hundreds of years. Much of the rest goes into landfill, with only a small fraction recycled. With long-lasting breakdown products of that much plastic in circulation, it’s no wonder several recent studies have also shown it to be ever-present in the air we breathe, borne on the wind, seeding the clouds, and generally travelling the skies to settle over landscapes like an invisible toxic rain.

Two widely different early studies showed the same thing: in one, daily atmospheric fallout over the Chinese city of Dongguan ranged from 175 to 313 particles per square metre; in the other, a similar daily number of particles, films and fibres were found to reach sparsely inhabited areas of the remote French Pyrenees through atmospheric transport of up to 100 kilometres. In yet another study,

for wet-deposited microplastics. Particles deposited under dry conditions, however, were smaller in size and their deposition rate was related to indices that suggested longer-range wind transport. Overall, even in these remote and empty landscapes plastic bits were found in 98 per cent of 339 samples, accounting for a shocking four per cent of all dust particles. The observed daily deposition rate averaged 132 particles per square metre, the basis for their calculation of >1,000 metric tons of plastic deposition to western U.S. protected lands annually.

Considering how this might contribute to environmental disruption of microbial communities or broader ecological damage, as well as the human health effects of so many fine particles in the air, Dr. Brahney summed it ominously: “There’s no nook or cranny on the surface of the earth that won’t have microplastics… It’s really unnerving to think about it.”

Leslie Anthony is a biologist, writer and author of several popular books on environmental science. ■

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The highs and lows of Strava I HAVE A LOVE-HATE relationship with the fitness app Strava. On one hand, it works as a digital logbook of exercise and recreation routines, benchmarking big rides and letting me see what my friends and peers are up to on their bikes or running shoes.

On the other, it can register inaccurate GPS

BY VINCE SHULEY tracks, skew data with horrible interpolation and worst of all, keeps poking me to sign up for the premium version.

The last time I wrote about Strava was in the previous incarnation of “The Outsider” in the now-shuttered Whistler Question in 2014. At that point, Strava had existed in the app marketplace for five years and was already well established in the cycling and running communities.

I saw Strava as defilement of the social ride. One example in particular was a friend of mine taking off down a trail and leaving our group of friends for the next 20 minutes in order to attempt a leaderboard-topping Queen of the Mountain (QOM) time.

HEATING UP The Strava Global Heatmap reveals

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In 2014, Strava had no place in my mountain biking recreation, but like a lot of technology, it eventually seeped in via a combination of curiosity and peer pressure.

I use it regularly now, though mostly to benchmark trails and rides against myself, not others on the leaderboard (trying to beat the likes of Jesse Melamed on the Westside will only result in a painful injury).

Strava’s success as a fitness app is pretty much attributed to its leaderboards.

Uber-competitive users will get push notifications to their phone when they lose

by Big Data. Strava’s biggest controversy came after it published a “Global Heatmap,” a graphic representation of two years of trailing data from its global network of athletes. An Australian university student studying international security discovered that the heatmap had mapped military bases, including known U.S. bases in Syria and Afghanistan, and a U.K. naval base that contains the country’s nuclear arsenal. Safe to say that privacy controls were simplified after that and any user could opt out of the Global Heatmap.

Strava Metro is an offshoot of the company that leverages aggregated and deidentified user data for the purpose of urban and city planning of cycling and pedestrian infrastructure. their QOM or King of the Mountain (KOM) status on a particular trail or segment.

Training ensues in order to regain it and the addictive cycle continues. Love it or loathe it, Strava’s design is an elegant gamification of exercise and with a user base of more than 55 million people, it can probably take some credit for boosting daily exercise in our lifestyles.

There’s always the sticky subject of privacy with an app that tracks your position and its susceptibility to being harvested

But there are good things going on with the data of 55 million Strava users, too, albeit for profit. Strava Metro is an offshoot of the company that leverages aggregated and deidentified user data for the purpose of urban and city planning of cycling and pedestrian infrastructure. Not only is Strava used by people jogging around the block or hitting mountain bike trails, a lot of people use it on their daily commutes to work in urban areas.

The best thing about fitness apps is

their statistics, something you had to go to the gym for before GPS location could be measured in your pocket or on your wrist.

Every year, Strava compiles summaries not only of activities carried out by its individual members, but for the global community. Here are some highlights from 2019: • For every one minute an athlete spends scrolling the Strava app they spend 50 minutes working out, on average.

• 3 hours, 58 minutes and 25 seconds is the average finishing time for a marathoner on Strava; 5.2 per cent of Strava athletes finished a marathon in 2019 and two per cent of runners endured an ultramarathon.

• Grouped rides cover twice the distance of solo rides on average. And they ride six per cent faster, too.

• Nine athletes climbed Mount Everest, but 3,059 athletes climbed the elevation of Mount Everest in one activity.

• Spanish athlete Kilian Jornet Burgada set the unofficial record for ski vertical in a day, climbing and descending 23,112 metres in 24 hours at Tusten Ski Resort in Norway.

He was quoted as saying “I don’t know why I’m doing it.”

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Yes, labour trafficking & exploitation happens in the Sea to Sky Analyzing the issue and where to go for help

By Jennifer Thuncher

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hey are abuses most people likely think happen somewhere

else, but labour trafficking

and labour exploitation occur right here in the Sea to Sky, according to several experts in the field.

Information about these abuses and what legal help is available was shared on June 18 in a Migrant Workers’ Centre Zoom presentation: “Preventing and Responding to Labour Trafficking and Labour Exploitation.”

The presentation was put on by the Migrant Workers’ Centre to assist local settlement service providers such as the Whistler Welcome Centre and the Squamish Welcome Centre and Settlement Service.

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“OK, I’ll hire you as a nanny and caregiver, you just come with us and you’ll have your own private room and you look after my kids and do house chores three times a week.’ But often it’s not like that and they don’t have days off, they work overtime with no extra pay.”

- Izumi Inoue

“We often hear people saying,’Does this happen in the Sea to Sky?’ Yes, it is very real and there are many workers in the Sea to Sky region facing this every day,” said Hasrat Grewal Gill, settlement and outreach worker with the Squamish Welcome Centre and Settlement Service.

As of the 2016 census, 10 per cent of Whistler’s population and about four per cent of Squamish’s population were temporary foreign workers.

“But we also know that we have a drastic increase in [the] number of temporary foreign workers accessing our services in the last few years,” Gill said.

“Since the Sea to Sky region is home to tourism and hospitality industries, more temporary foreign workers are trying to stay permanently, [there’s] more on two- to threeyear visas, and many businesses are relying more and more on temporary foreign workers to keep our businesses going—and in the meantime, employers are sponsoring in more people to answer the job gap.”

Defining a migrant worker

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migrant worker is anyone in Canada with precarious immigration status including any non-permanent resident who is working or wants to work.

“It can include international workers, temporary foreign workers, someone who is here on visitor status who is working or who wants to work; it could include someone without status,” said Juliana Dalley, a staff lawyer with the Migrant Workers’ Centre in Vancouver. The non-profit provides free legal assistance to migrant workers in B.C. “Someone who is recruited to come to Canada from abroad with the promise of a job that is going to be paid [under] certain conditions, but when [the person] arrives in Canada ... finds out that some of these promises were not true,” Dalley explained.

Temporary foreign workers are here on work permits granted by the federal government under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

Migrant workers are vulnerable to labour exploitation for several reasons, including that Canadian work permits are

often tied to a particular employer. That makes it harder for those workers to change employers if they are being abused.

Migrants who come from countries experiencing political instability and who arrive in Canada to seek a better life are also vulnerable to being exploited.

Newcomers also may not know anyone in town and can face language and cultural barriers and may not be familiar with Canadian laws.

Some have also accumulated debt to get to Canada, so are motivated to work and not complain.

The stereotype of what human trafficking is doesn’t always match the reality, Dalley said.

“In our ideas, it might involve moving across borders, people in the back of a van— and in some cases, it can look like that,” she said, but labour trafficking cases can take other forms as well.

The Palermo Protocol, the internationally accepted definition of human trafficking, describes it as, “recruiting, transporting, transferring or receiving people by the means of the use of force, or the threat of the use of force, coercion, abduction, fraud or deception or the abuse of power for the purposes of exploitation,” Dalley said.

An example could be a person recruited from Dubai, who signed an agreement to work at a Canadian hotel, full time for a legal wage. When the person arrives, however, the employer says the trip to Canada, and its associated costs, have to be reimbursed, with the amount owing typically docked from the worker’s pay, often then amounting to less than minimum wage.

The difference between labour exploitation and labour trafficking is coercion.

“The person feeling that their actions are constrained by external forces,” Dalley said.

“Even if there is no direct threat, there may be coercion and the feeling that their choices are constrained by systemic forces.”

Deportation is one example of a threat an employer can leverage over their employee if, say, they refuse to work overtime for free.

If the employer holds their passport or other ID, workers then can’t access services, in many cases.

“That enforces isolation on that person and makes them fearful,” Dalley said.

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FEATURE STORY “While it is illegal in Canada to charge workers a fee for finding them employment, in reality, many of our clients have been charged fees.

“These are usually paid overseas and for a variety of reasons, it is often very difficult to get any enforcement of that worker’s right.”

Canadian immigration law can complicate matters.

“If we have a caregiver who has a work permit to work as a caregiver, but the family she is working for says, ‘Come to work on our blueberry farm on Sundays,’ she is actually violating the terms of her work permit, and so Canada Border Services could go after her and seek her removal from Canada,” Dalley said.

That fear can keep workers trapped in exploitive situations.

Fraudulent recruitment fees

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ill said what the centre sees most are migrant workers charged large, fraudulent recruitment fees by the employers and immigration consultants.

“Of course not all, but some employers and immigration consultants work as a team. They ask for under the table fees,” she said, adding she has heard of newcomers who paid between $5,000 and $40,000.

Ideally, this process should not cost the worker more than the consultancy fee of around $1,500 to $2,000. These are mostly workers on employer-specific work permits, or prior international students who are now on post-grad work permit.

Local agencies also hear of workers who are underpaid, or whose wages are deducted unjustifiably; who are forced to work unpaid overtime, with no health or other benefits and no paid leave.

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n Whistler, labour exploitation tends to occur most frequently in a number of service-oriented sectors, said Izumi Inoue, settlement worker for the Whistler

Welcome Centre. Au pairs are a common target for exploitation, as well as jobs like spa attendants, massage therapists, and even kitchen workers.

“The babysitter, nannies, live-in caregivers, they are the ones I hear of quite often,” she said, adding that the oftenprivate nature of the work live-in caregivers do makes the industry ripe for exploitation in certain cases.

“The employer, the family who hires them, most of them are very nice people and there are only very few who exploit workers … They’re usually the ones that say to workers, ‘OK, I’ll hire you as a nanny and caregiver, you just come with us and you’ll have your own private room and you look after my kids and do house chores three times a week.’ But often it’s not like that and they don’t have days off, they work overtime with no extra pay.”

Although Inoue knows exploitation is happening locally, getting a handle on how prevalent it truly is can be nearly impossible to determine given how vulnerable these foreign workers often are.

“Workers need to be informed, they need to know their rights,” she said. “I think that’s very important, but because of the language barriers and because it’s such a new country for them, a new society, they don’t even know their human rights here or any social norms here or where they need to go to ask for information or even to reach out for support. It’s really challenging.”

The Whistler Welcome Centre will see a handful of cases that would constitute labour exploitation reported to them in a given year, but even following up with support can be tricky.

“What we do is connect them [to the Migrant Workers’ Centre], but I normally don’t even get to do that because they’re so worried about giving me their name,” Inoue said. “It takes so much courage for them to reach out. If they reach out to us by a phone call or email, I think it might have taken them a year or two or three to finally get to that point.”

Complicating matters further is that often these vulnerable workers are left in the dark when it comes to their work permits, with recruiters promising to arrange a worker visa only to find they are on a tourist visa once they arrive. Workers’ personal ID and even passports are sometimes also held by the employer for “safekeeping,”

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“[B]ecause of the language barriers and because it’s such a new country for them, a new society, they don’t even know their human rights here or any social norms here or where they need to go to ask for information or even to reach out for support. It’s really challenging.”

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preventing them from leaving a situation they hadn’t bargained for.

“I know a couple of cases where the passport and work permit has been taken from them. And it’s not, ‘Oh, I’m going to take it away from you!’ It’s more like, ‘I’ll keep it safe for you.’ It’s a very invisible, indirect [tactic], but it’s still a sort of threat or coercion of the workers, which means

they cannot even go get social support or services if something is going wrong,” Inoue relayed. “Those workers, they [often] don’t even know how long their work visa is approved for, so they could be working illegally without the proper work permit or that permit might already be expired. But they don’t know that.”

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eporting abuse, can often put migrant workers at a higher risk, even when the abuse is clear, the panelists acknowledged.

“There are a lot of shortcomings [in] the Canadian legal system,” Dalley said.

Two laws that prohibit human trafficking that are often misunderstood, according to Dalley, are the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and the Criminal Code.

“These are criminal laws so people who are engaged in human trafficking can be prosecuted under these laws,” she said.

But since the laws were enacted, only one case in two decades has successfully resulted in a conviction that was not overturned on appeal.

“Canada is really falling behind other jurisdictions, such as the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand when it comes to the response of the criminal justice system,” she said.

The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act requires that there be a crossing of a border involved for it to be considered a crime.

“We know that is not always the case, some trafficking happens purely in Canada, whether it involves migrant workers already in Canada on a work permit who [are] induced to transfer to another employer, or cases that are purely domestic.”

The Criminal Code allows for prosecutors to charge domestic cases but the victim must have feared for their safety or for those they love.

So, unless there is a threat of physical harm, prosecution can’t be pursued. Thus, victims often have better success seeking civil redress.

Other measures to help

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he Employment Standards Branch can help workers where rules are broken on the job.

The courts can help if an employment contract has been broken.

WorkSafeBC can also help if a worker has been forced to do unsafe work or they are terminated for raising a safety concern at the workplace or are injured on the job.

“We at Migrant Workers’ Centre, we work in all these different areas and can assist workers depending on what is appropriate,” Dalley said.

The centre can also help people who have experienced human rights complaints, for example, if they have been discriminated against trying to find housing.

“There are advantages and disadvantages to each type of complaint,” said Jeanne Robert, a legal advocate with the centre.

“Each complaint and each case is different.”

Some temporary, quick remedies for protection for victims of trafficking include obtaining a special Temporary Resident Permit (TRP), which gives the victim temporary immigration status in Canada for 180 days. This grants them open work permits—they don’t have to stay with one employer—and access to social assistance.

A second temporary option is an Open Work Permit for Vulnerable workers, which allows migrant workers experiencing abuse, or who are at risk of abuse, with a distinct means to leave their employer.

It is important workers speak with a lawyer to help them understand their options.

For victims to get permanent status, there are a couple of options to pursue.

They may be able to apply for permanent residency on humanitarian and compassionate grounds.

“Often, there is a compelling argument that can be made that granting permanent residence in Canada is the only just thing to do in these circumstances,” Dalley said, acknowledging there can be a lengthy wait period to get a decision.

Other victims may meet the criteria for refugee protection, Dalley said.

Migrant workers should keep detailed records, including text messages, emails and the like, even if things are going well with an employer.

“Sometimes the situation can change, because we know processing can take time.

Sometimes it takes… months. We don’t always remember everything so this can be very helpful,” said Robert.

For more on this issue or for help, reach out to the Whistler Welcome Centre at 604698-5960 or info@welcomewhistler.com.

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Full luge season planned FIL’S 10-RACE CAMPAIGN INCLUDES WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN WHISTLER

BY DAN FALLOON WHISTLER

LUGE

ATHLETE

Reid Watts is preparing for a full World Cup season, and the International Luge Federation (FIL) is on the same page.

FIL confirmed its previously released list of 2020-21 stops in late June with no location changes, so the World Championships set to come to the Whistler Sliding Centre (WSL) in February 2021 are still a go at this point, pending any developments with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

“I’m excited. I am optimistic that we’ll be able to race a full season, but this situation is much bigger than us and it’s more important than sliding around the world,” Watts said.

“We’ve just got to wait things out. There’s so much uncertainty, and that’s all over, there’s uncertainty with everybody.

“We’re still training and we’re still planning on going full steam ahead.”

Whistler Sport Legacies president and CEO Roger Soane said the sliding centre’s featured sports—luge, bobsleigh and skeleton—are all preparing for full and normal seasons, with Plan Bs in place if they end up racing less.

“You have to plan for it. The hard thing is trying to react,” he said.

While the FIL didn’t respond to a

ON TRACK Reid Watts, shown here during the 2019 FIL World Cup at the Whistler Sliding Centre, is getting ready for 2020-21.

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request for comment regarding its potential precautions and procedures, Soane shared that the organization is planning to hold its season without spectators.

“They’re planning to still be operating under some restrictions when it comes to crowd size. They’re planning for a [TV-only event] in Whistler,” he said. “Obviously, there’s a long time between now and January [when athletes would start to arrive] and things may change, but that’s what they’re planning.”

do events, the biggest change to our daily routine is having spectators onsite.”

The one potential challenge, Soane explained, is at the start house, where athletes will generally congregate before their respective runs.

Potential fixes include adding more time between each racer to allow for the same amount of warm-up time, or hold warm-ups further away before transporting athletes to the start. While luge should run smoothly, especially with the World Championships

“I am optimistic that we’ll be able to race a full season, but this situation is much bigger than us and it’s more important than sliding around the world.”

- REID WATTS

While disappointing to not welcome fans to the track for such a major event, the track’s workflow would be eased if those protocols were still in place for the World Championships, Soane said.

“Without spectators, the event is a lot easier to plan because the field of play is the field of play and it’s really very little difference from having the teams here versus having training here,” he said. “When we

coming late in the season and affording the FIL the opportunity to work out the kinks, the toughest situation will arise when the track hosts four-man bobsleigh, though Soane expects a resolution to be found.

While the full schedule is not officially out, Soane added that FIL is planning to allow athletes enough time between contests to fulfill the host country’s quarantine requirements.

In addition to the World Championships, the WSL is anticipating being tabbed for a North American Cup bobsleigh and skeleton event in November, likely the second race of the season after a stop in Lake Placid, N.Y. For his part, Watts would miss fans in the stands, but if that’s what has to happen for racing to go ahead, then he’s for it.

“It’s always great to see the spectators and race your performance off their enthusiasm, but as long as I’m racing, I’m going to be a happy guy,” he said.

As for his offseason training, Watts noted that he’d normally be in Calgary by this time in the summer, but the pandemic has kept him home in Whistler.

“It’s obviously been a very different summer training than we’d planned and had set out to do, but so far, it’s been pretty good. It’s been nice to catch up and spend a little more time out here—actually have summer out here,” he said. “It wasn’t until three weeks ago I was allowed to be back in a proper gym.

“I’ve been doing workouts in my backyard and in the garage just to make it work.”

Without the benefit of a full complement of gym equipment at home, Watts has adapted his workouts to achieve the same effects, such as the current high-tension training he’s doing. While challenging, he also appreciates the chance to adapt and figure out how to do what he needs to.

“We’ve been doing those workouts but without all the fancy workout equipment we have access to,” he said. “It’s almost been a prison workout for me, but it’s been fun.” n

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Creating a climbing hub SOUTHSIDE AREA A LABOUR OF LOVE

KIRK PATERSON AND a friend happened upon a rock face on Whistler’s south side in 2007 and, being unable to get to the major routes in Squamish at the time, opted to create a couple of sport climbing routes there.

With intermittent use, the routes mossed over. Meanwhile, Paterson moved on to build routes in areas all over the corridor but saw some Facebook chatter about the site about a decade later.

A post wondered who the original builders were and, reinvigorated, Paterson and another climber, Alec Fernandes, set to work revitalizing the area with more than a dozen new routes, finishing the years-long project, with some help, earlier this month.

“Because of Facebook, people got more engaged. Alec and I have been the main ones, but there are quite a few people here and there,” Paterson said. “Our goal that kept us going was to get enough climbs to make it into an area so that people would go there. We’ve got a variety of climbs so that different people will come.

“If you’re a different level than your friend, there’s something different to climb.”

Paterson was initially drawn to the site, located between Alpha Lake and Function Junction, with a vision to expand the resort’s climbing scene.

“It’s a great area. It’s the main one in Whistler, but we just thought that there should be more variety,” he said. “Nordic, also, is really good for beginners and easy, and there’s also some really good hard stuff, but there’s not a lot of in-between stuff, and a lot of climbers are in the in-between level.”

When building initially, Paterson recalled targeting routes that were easy to climb, but, being new to route setting, turned out to be challenging to build.

“We might have picked kind of a hard one, a labour-intensive one,” he said. “Some routes, you just scrub them quickly and they’re good to climb, [but] this one, it’s three-dimensional inside the chimney with

a lot of moss and a lot of cleaning and shrubbery,” he said.

When revisiting the site, Paterson said the first move was to get the two existing routes up to snuff before creating additional climbs.

Fernandes, meanwhile, has spent three to six days a week working on the area for the past three years.

After 20 years of climbing in Squamish and at the local Nordic and Cal-Cheak areas, he relished the chance to create something fresh.

“When I saw a new spot with possibilities for the climbing community in Whistler, I kind of just went for it with Kirk,” he said.

Fernandes noted that, since routes are built from the top down, this particular area was a challenging one to design, given it’s difficult to reach the top in order to install the initial anchor. From there, builders start to whale away on the face in order to make it as safe as possible for climbers.

“Between crowbars and hammers, you pretty much go to town,” he said. “We probably pulled off 200 or 300 pounds (90 to 140 kilograms) of rock off this wall.”

Fernandes acknowledged that he and Paterson have different approaches to building, as Paterson appreciates the mountaineering aspect of the sport and embraces heights, while he admittedly has a touch of acrophobia.

As well, Fernandes is dedicated to the site being spotless.

“I’m more of a picky cleaner. I want it to look very nice so when people show up, they want to come back again,” he said. “I pretty much have scrubbed every square metre of this rock with iron brushes.”

In addition to the years of sweat equity, the builders are financially invested.

Each bolt and hanger is roughly $5, with each route needing 10 to 15, so both are in for a couple hundred dollars apiece, though Fernandes noted the Squamish Access Society’s bolt fund chipped in with enough bolts and hangers for three routes.

The site could be enhanced before long, Paterson said, as another builder asked about the area above the current area and plans to start building there. n

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Gillespie’s founder expanding into craft cannabis beverages

BY DAN FALLOON AS THE FOUNDER of Squamish’s Gillespie’s Fine Spirits, Kelly Ann Woods made her mark in the craft alcoholic beverage realm and looks to apply that knowledge through her new craft cannabis venture, State B Beverage Company.

“To be in a nascent industry is beyond my wildest dreams. To take my knowledge of beverage and apply it to this burgeoning industry is wildly exciting,” she said. “It’s a big operation that I’m hoping brings so much joy and wellness to people.”

Woods hopes to launch the line by November, though as late as January 2021 is a possibility, with five options. All will have low-dose cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), with each having different supportive botanicals to help create a specific effect. For example, one option, dubbed Sparkle, includes euphoric aphrodisiacs, passionflower and, compared to the others, higher levels of CBD and lower levels of THC. The onset of effects, she said, is between five and 15 minutes.

Rather than recycling any existing flavours offered by Gillespie’s or her nonalcoholic Boozewitch brand, Woods has embraced the opportunity to experiment with new profiles.

Woods, who described herself as a “bona fide witch,” said she concocted formulas with a master herbalist to create “different states of consciousness,” and, as a result, new tastes.

“It’s going to be a whole new set of profiles because it’s a completely different product.

Ours is a bit revolutionary,” she said.

The beverages will be flash-pasteurized with botanicals, fruit concentrate and, of course, cannabis. Flavourings include tangerine, raspberry, mandarin, hibiscus and marionberry, which she described as a “more complex” blackberry.

“It’s got a little effervescence to it,” she said, saying while it’s a different flavour experience, it most closely parallels yerba mate or tea-and-fruit blends such as blackcurrant or hibiscus.

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“Think about combining lightly sparkling water with herbs, with cannabis, with fruit concentrate.”

The product development process was complicated by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, as Woods had been looking at exotic flavouring options such as callamansi, acai and bergamot, but subsequently pivoted to using ingredients that could be sourced closer to home.

“One of the things that COVID has taught me is that supply chains are fragile and that to localize everything as much as possible is crucial moving forward,” she said.

Another realization Woods made during the pandemic is that, with cannabis sales deemed an essential service, it appears to be a “recession-proof” industry, with sales rising in all sectors except topicals.

However, with consumers cognizant of respiratory health, consumables seem to be a reasonable way in.

For those who want to try the new flavours and enjoy the botanicals without the high, Woods expects to have a version without cannabis canned next month.

Woods credited herbalist Vanessa Prescott for playing a major role in ensuring that the beverages will still be of high quality even without cannabis.

“They’re going to have the same botanicals,” she said. “Vanessa really honed in the formulations. I wanted to make sure that they were of the utmost integrity.

“She helped me make sure that they would be the best possible herbal combinations.”

Woods also expressed support for racial justice, including the Black Lives Matter movement, and is in the midst of making an arrangement to provide a share of State B’s profits to an Indigenous legal defence fund, though details were still being hammered out at press time.

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She’s cognizant of her entry into the cannabis industry as a white woman, considering that non-white people felt disproportionate legal consequences prior to legalization, while white entrepreneurs have taken the post-legalization lead.

Prescott, she noted, is Métis.

Woods explained that, in place of a mission or vision statement, State B produced an “ethos document” to outline company culture, highlighting kindness and including a land acknowledgement.

“It’s about our company process, procedures, and what’s important to us,” she said. “It’s less about our goals and more about, day to day, how we move forward.

“That is a really important question, now that all of a sudden there are all these people that are going to go out and make a ton of money on the cannabis industry when there are people sitting in jail and whose lives have been dramatically affected by it.” ■

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BY ALYSSA NOEL LIFE IS BEGINNING to settle into a new normal for the summer and with it comes a return to live music.

Pique caught up with a few local musicians who have returned to the stage to find out more about what the last few months have been like—and what they hope for the season ahead.

(To see a full version of each interview, head to piquenewsmagazine.com.)

MONTY BIGGINS PIQUE: What was your first gig back and what was the experience like?

First gig back was a backyard party for nurses in Squamish. It was wonderful: small, intimate and a very appreciative audience.

The second gig was at Alpine Cafe. I’d say it was the official first gig back as it was the first one in a venue. Funnily enough, the last gig I played before the lockdown was also at Alpine Cafe. It’s my backyard neighbourhood cafe. Martini and the crew at the café are wonderful and it was

OUT LOUD Concerts might look a little different this summer, but musicians are finding their way back to the stage.

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amazing to see my friends and neighbours and all the familiars.

It was pouring rain, we were under a tent and more and more people kept showing up. You could see how badly everyone had missed it, and it made for such great vibes!

MARC CHARRON PIQUE: What have the last three months been like for you musically?

It took me two weeks after my last gig to get into a groove and want to play live again.

I was scared, unmotivated, confused and questioning what to do. And as always, it comes back to music. Music has never left me. I picked up a few items necessary for livestreaming and jumped in.

We did two shows weekly: the Anything Goes Show and The Acoustic Morning Coffee Show. One was an all-acoustic show and the other a one-man-band type show.

I had fans from across Canada, Belgium, France, the UK, India, the U.S. and it blew me away. We (my wife Jen and cat Starla) raised money for two charities during the shows—the Howe Sound Women’s Centre and Ronald McDonald House—and we are so proud of what we accomplished. We thrived throughout the last three months.

Sometimes it was really, really hard though.

I felt all the feels throughout the months and cried during at least one song in 90 per cent of the shows. It’s been a roller-

coaster ride these past three months and I’ve had some great days and some not-sogreat days.

‘GRATEFUL’ GREG REAMSBOTTOM (THE HAIRFARMERS) PIQUE: What are your musical plans for the summer?

Before COVID hit, our 2020 summer was booked solid. Aside from the many local weddings and private events, we had some other big bookings including gigs in Scotland, Mexico and back at Burning Man. After having virtually every gig cancel between March 14 and October 2020, we’re now seeing some smaller show opportunities emerge. Things like private house parties and smaller weddings, as well as a few private livestream concerts for outof-town clients.

We’re just going to do our best to try to adapt to our clients’ needs and keep playing. I think the world needs some “fun” now more than ever!

STEPH LUNDY PIQUE: What would you like people to know about performing during a pandemic?

I would love people to know that their

support is so appreciated, whether it’s feedback online, coming to gigs, hosting gigs or just enjoying a song and singing along and cheering us on; it’s all part of what makes the experience so rewarding, fulfilling and fun.

We play at Longhorn weekly from 7 to 9 p.m. on their epic patio, as well as a few private shows we have coming up as well!

Also I would love to add: if you’ve heard us play and think we might be suitable for a venue you run or an event you have coming up, please don’t hesitate to reach out!

STEPHEN VOGLER PIQUE: What was your first gig back and what was the experience like?

It was really good because I played outside at Rainbow Park this past Saturday and Sunday. The RMOW is moving their street entertainment around the valley more to try to disperse people.

It was a sunny weekend, which was a miracle. I sat there—Andrea Mueller was painting beside me. I had my leg up on a chair because I tore my Achilles tendon playing tennis. It’s a long, slow recovery, but that was really nice.

The outdoor setting was great. It was really fun to play for people; you could tell they were soaking it up. They wanted live music.

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BY ALYSSA NOEL NIGEL BENNETT has lived a whole lot of life since he was a recent high-school graduate in a helicopter getting shot at by FARC guerrillas in Venezuela.

But that’s exactly where the part-time Whistlerite’s entrepreneurial story starts.

At the time, he was working for his father’s company environmental mapping the coastline of Venezuela.

“From there, I went to Egypt and was mapping the coast there—the Sinai Peninsula—with a helicopter pilot. Pipeline after pipeline was ruptured with oil flowing into the Red Sea,” Bennett says.

“I was taking photos through the glass floor on the helicopter and the pilot said, ‘Whatever you do, don’t let the guys in the back see what you’re doing because we can be arrested for spying.’ … I had all these amazing photos and the pilot said, ‘I really don’t think it’s going to make a difference.’

As a young person, it really affected me. I think I can make a difference.”

While plenty of other drama ensued, it eventually led to Bennett parting ways with his father’s company—taking his sister along—to launch Aqua-Guard Spill Response Inc. in 1992.

That Vancouver-based company designs, creates and supplies equipment for marine oil spill response.

“My little sister was getting big into mountaineering. We’d go to Squamish and get into climbing,” Bennett remembers. “I’d come back to our office and feel refreshed.

I found that taking these breaks—heading to Squamish to climb or mountain bike race—I’d be regenerated and refreshed and go on.”

That mix of business know-how and mountain adventures—along with a sprinkling of travel and philanthropy—is at the core of Bennett’s book.

Take That Leap: Risking It All For What REALLY Matters was officially released in January 2018, but from this July to

September, Bennett is donating all of the proceeds to the Whistler Adaptive Sports Program.

(All of the book’s proceeds supported various charities around Vancouver before that.) While he and his family have long had a second home in Whistler, during the last several months, he and his wife have been here more regularly.

And, in fact, he wrote much of his book in a Creekside café over three years.

“I would come up here on a Tuesday, write all Tuesday afternoon and night, then on Wednesday, go skiing or mountain biking and go home,” he says.

Over the years, friends and colleagues had encouraged him to write a book filled with personal stories, but with dyslexia and attention deficit disorder, Bennett, for a time, had no interest in tackling that feat.

It wasn’t until receiving some encouragement at the annual MIT retreat, Gathering of Titans, that he decided to consider it.

“Seventy per cent of everyone in the class has written a book,” he says. “They in fact said, ‘If you’ve started a business, you have to write a book.’”

Their motivation stems from the idea of passing experience and lessons learned on to another generation. For Bennett, there was also the appeal of leaving the stories for his two sons and daughter as well.

“I honestly believe—not just as an entrepreneur, but as an elder at 58—we’ve lost touch with sharing wisdom with younger generations,” he says. “When I travelled the world with the kids—Bhutan, Myanmar, all these countries—[these nations] were all about the elders sharing with the younger generations. They still do traditional sharing. In the West we don’t …

I honestly believe at my age, it’s my duty to share whatever I can. If someone gets a nugget, that’s great.”

Take That Leap is available on Amazon or locals can email at nigelb@aquaguard. com to purchase a copy (with more proceeds going to WASP).

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some time to prepare the museum to reopen for the summer, we’ve been continuing our perusal of Whistler Recipes, the cookbook put out by the Whistler Museum & Archives Society as a fundraiser in July 1997. The book brought together recipes from past and (then)-present Whistler and Alta Lake residents, and by looking into the stories behind the name attached to each recipe, it doesn’t take long to realize just how quickly the area changed.

Lizzie Neiland and her children (Jenny, Jack and Bob Jardine) came to Alta Lake with Tom Neiland in 1921 and lived in a house on Alpha Lake, where Tom started his own logging business. In 1923, the family moved into an old cabin at 34 ½ Mile (an area today better known as Function Junction) where they would live for the next two decades. From photos of the “Neiland Jardine Ranch,” we can tell that the Neiland family had an impressive garden and even kept chickens and, at times, other livestock.

This was not uncommon for the time, when many households grew their own produce, made their own preserves, and even raised their own livestock.

Whistler Recipes was dedicated to the early residents of Alta Lake, “who cooked and baked under challenging conditions.”

This would have included Lizzie Neiland, who kept her family fed at a time when power and running water were not easy to come by in the valley, groceries were ordered from Vancouver and delivered by train, and challenging economic conditions sometimes led to the shooting of a “government cow” (deer poached out of season).

There is one recipe in Whistler Recipes attributed to Lizzie Neiland, for “Barney Google Cake.” Though we can’t find much information on the cake, Barney Google was a character in a daily strip first published in 1919, first called Take Barney Google, F’rinstance, and today known as Barney Google and Snuffy Smith.

Also included in the book was a recipe for “Warm Chicken Spinach Salad” from Chef Bernard Casavant, who spent his

time in Whistler cooking in a kitchen very different from the one Lizzie Neiland would have had.

Chef Bernard grew up on Vancouver Island and knew before he left school that he was going to be a chef. He became one of the first chefs from B.C. to earn the highest qualification of Certified Chef de Cuisine and was the first West Coast born and trained chef to represent Canada in the Bocuse d’Or Competition in France. He moved to Whistler in 1989 to become the executive chef at the newly opened Chateau Whistler Resort.

Chef Bernard is considered to have played an important role in turning Whistler into a culinary destination. After eight years at the Chateau, he left to open his own restaurant—Chef Bernard’s Cafe—in the Upper Village, and was voted Best Chef in Pique Newsmagazine’s “Best of Whistler” for multiple years. Part of what made Chef Bernard (or “Cheffie” as one article referred to him) so popular was his support for the local farming community and belief in using fresh and local ingredients (in 1993, he was one of the founders of the Whistler Farmers’ Market), and his involvement in the community (he was the founding chef of Whistler Search and Rescue’s Wine’d Up

[W]e love that the recipes of early Alta Lake residents are included alongside those of renowned chefs, all of whom cooked in the same place. fundraiser). He and his wife Bonnie moved to the Okanagan in 2006.

By the time Chef Bernard moved to the area, it would have been very different from the Alta Lake that Lizzie Neiland first came to, but we love that the recipes of early Alta Lake residents are included alongside those of renowned chefs, all of whom cooked in the same place. n

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration,” said singer Laura Nyro. This is practical advice for you to heed in the coming weeks. According to my analysis, you’re scheduled to enjoy an extended engagement with rich, fertile complexity. The best teachings won’t be reducible to a few basic lessons; rather, they’ll be rife with soulful nuances. The same is true about the splendid dilemmas that bring you stimulating amusements: They can’t and shouldn’t be forced into pigeonholes. As a general rule, anything that seems easy and smooth and straightforward will probably not be useful. Your power will come from what’s crooked, dense, and labyrinthine.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You may think that playing heavy metal music and knitting with yarn don’t have much in common. And yet there is an annual contest in Joensuu, Finland where people with expertise in needlework join heavy metal musicians on stage, plying their craft in rhythm to the beat.

The next Heavy Metal Knitting World Championship will be July 15 and 16, 2021. This year’s event was cancelled due to the pandemic. If it had been staged, I bet multiple Tauruses would have been among the top 10 competitors. Why? Because you Bulls are at the peak of your ability to combine things that aren’t often combined. You have the potential to excel at making unexpected connections, linking influences that haven’t been linked before, and being successful at comparing apples and oranges.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 1848, Danish King Frederick VII agreed, under pressure from liberal agitators, to relinquish some of his absolute power. Thereafter, he shared his decision-making with a newly formed parliament. He was pleased with this big change because it lightened his workload. “That was nice,” he remarked after signing the new constitution. “Now I can sleep in every morning.”

I recommend him to you as an inspirational role model in the coming weeks. What so-called advantages in your life are more boring or burdensome than fun and interesting?

Consider the possibility of shedding dubious “privileges” and status symbols.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian author Mary McCarthy provides you with a challenge you’ll be wise to relish during the rest of 2020. She writes, “Everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you’re older is that you really must make the self.” McCarthy implies that this epic reorientation isn’t likely until you’ve been on Earth for at least four decades. But judging from the astrological omens, I think you’re ready for it now—no matter what your age is. To drive home the point, I’ll say it in different words. Your task isn’t to find yourself, but rather to create yourself. Don’t wait around passively for life to show you who you are. Show life who you are.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Some night soon, I predict you’ll have an agitated dream while you’re asleep: a nightmare that symbolizes an unresolved conflict you’re wrestling with in your waking life. Here’s a possible example: A repulsive politician you dislike may threaten to break a toy you loved when you were a kid. But surprise!

There’ll be a happy ending. A good monster will appear in your dream and fix the problem; in my example, the benevolent beast will scare away the politician who’s about to break your beloved toy. Now here’s the great news: In the days after your dream, you’ll solve the conflict you’ve been wrestling with in your waking life.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful,” writes author Diane Ackerman. I’m guessing that in recent months, her description has been partially true for you Virgos. From what I can tell, love has indeed been a rigourous school. And the tuition has been rather high. But on the other hand, the homework has been

at least as pleasurable as it has been painful. I expect these trends to continue for the foreseeable future. What teachings about intimacy, communion, tenderness, and compassion would you like to study next?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible,” wrote Libran novelist Graham Greene. His words can serve as a stirring motto for you in the coming weeks. I sense you’re close to summoning a burst of courage—a bigger supply of audacity than you’ve had access to in a while. I hope you’ll harness this raw power to fuel a daring feat that will expand your conception of what is possible.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “It’s not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window,” wrote poet Wallace Stevens. That’s a problem you won’t have to worry about anytime soon. The coming weeks will be a favourable phase for you to both think and gaze out the window—as well as to explore all the states in-between. In other words, you’ll have the right and the need to indulge in a leisurely series of dreamy ruminations and meandering fantasies and playful explorations of your deepest depths and your highest heights. Don’t rush the process. Allow yourself to linger in the gray areas and the vast stretches of inner wildness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The coming weeks will be a favourable time to undertake a transformative vision quest, even if the exigencies of the pandemic require your quest to unfold primarily in your inner realms. The near future will also bring you good fortune if you focus on creating more sacredness in your rhythm and if you make a focused effort to seek out songs, texts, inspirations, natural places, and teachers that infuse you with a reverence for life. I’m trying to help you to see, Sagittarius, that you’re in a phase when you can attract healing synchronicities into your world by deepening your sense of awe and communing with experiences that galvanize you to feel worshipful.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.” The author and activist bell hooks wrote that.

(She doesn’t capitalize her name.) In accordance with the highest astrological potentials, I’m inviting you Capricorns to be inspired by her wisdom as you upgrade your meaningful relationships during the next six weeks.

I think it’s in your self-interest to give them even more focus and respect and appreciation than you already do. Be ingenious as you boost the generosity of spirit you bestow on your allies. Be resourceful as you do this impeccable work in the midst of a pandemic!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “One-half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it,” wrote author Sydney Howard. Now would be a perfect time to act on that excellent advice. Is there any obstacle standing in the way of your ability to achieve a beloved dream? Is there a pretty good thing that’s distracting you from devoting yourself wholeheartedly to a really great thing? I invite you to be a bit ruthless as you clear the way to pursue your heart’s desire.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Author Ellen Goodman writes, “The truth is that we can overhaul our surroundings, renovate our environment, talk a new game, join a new club, far more easily than we can change the way we respond emotionally. It is easier to change behaviour than feelings about that behaviour.” I think she’s correct in her assessment. But I also suspect that you’re in a prime position to be an exception to the rule. In the coming weeks, you will have exceptional power to transform the way you feel—especially if those feelings have previously been based on a misunderstanding of reality and especially if those feelings have been detrimental to your mental and physical health.

Homework: Is there a so-called weakness or liability you might be able to turn into an asset? FreeWillAstrology.com

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The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) is located in southwestern BC and consists of 4 member municipalities (Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton, Lillooet) and 4 electoral areas.

The region contains some of the most spectacular forests, waterways, and mountains in the province and affords an endless range of opportunities for outdoor adventure. Headquartered in Pemberton, which is the approximate geographic centre of the region, the SLRD delivers a wide range of regional, sub-regional and local services to its residents. Services include land use planning, solid waste management, building inspection, fire protection, emergency preparedness, 911 services, recreation, water and sewer utilities, regional transit, trails and open spaces as well as financial support for various community services.

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Waiting for the Sun to come out THE TROUBLE WITH RELATIVITY is its lack of immediacy. I’m not talking about Einsteinian—E=MC2—relativity, nor do I refer to the kind of relativity packaged as family values or milked as in-law jokes.

The insidious relativity to which I refer is of the one-upmanship or, in this case, downmanship, sort that knocks the legs out from under a perfectly good snit. For example, I know, within the context of Canada, things could be relatively worse.

I could still be living in Toronto where, no doubt, I’d be wheeling around a canister of oxygen and frantically calling all over town

BY G.D. MAXWELL in a futile attempt to have air-conditioning installed in my sweat lodge home, seeking relief from the Gemini demons of heat and humidity, not to mention visible pollutants and noxious fumes of modern, urban hell.

Relatively, that’d be worse.

I could live in the endless flatlands of Manitoba or Saskatchewan. That train of thought could be derailed without further comment right here. So I’ll derail it.

Relatively, that’d be worse, although the advent of medically assisted death would be the white light at the end of my tunnel.

Or, I could be living in Alberta. On second thought, no I couldn’t. Even relativity has its limits. Besides, my pickup truck is too small.

I’d be laughed out of the province.

So, relatively, without even going to Third World places like Africa or Florida, things could be a lot worse. But I don’t live in any of those places. I live, instead, in a place where the sun rarely shines, the rain hasn’t stopped for more than a couple of days since April and the deeply beloved respite from Canadian winter—summer— didn’t show its face during the entire month of June and isn’t anywhere in my longrange forecast. This sucks!

Being an ancient civilization, the Chinese reputedly were the first to recognize the demoralizing, deranging effects of persistent rain. Over the course of many centuries, they realized the slow, steady drip of simple water could not just wear down great mountains, but wear down the resistance of people and drive them crazy. In the overall scheme of things, watching people go crazy, especially your enemies, is way more fun than watching mountains melt.

They were also smart enough to realize how useful a trick like this would be when the British ultimately arrived to trade opium for tea. Reputedly, the first English Gentleman they guinea-pigged water torture on laughed and called them crazy. After several hours, he was in a more conciliatory mood. By the end of the day, he was reluctantly willing to eat Chinese food and not call it “filthy Woggie swill.” After a couple of days, he actually admitted Chinese Checkers was a superior game to cricket, but then, what isn’t? When a week’s worth of drips had

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dimpled his forehead, he was completely starkers, barking like a Yorkshire Terrier and speaking in tongues. It was at that point he finally capitulated and agreed to bathe. The Empire was saved. Temporarily.

Having long ago been broken by 2020’s version of water torture, I have resolved to pledge what remains of the months formerly known as summer to spiritual matters. Not being a particularly spiritual person, I appreciated this quest was doomed

of accepting a sibling dare and jumping into the still frigid waters of Sulfurious Lake.

Normally a refreshing swim on a hot, dry day this time of year, the rain-swollen lake is busy establishing new high watermarks and is so cold I could have sworn he was wearing a bow tie when he quickly jumped right back out.

Ironically, as summers go, this one is very reminiscent of the winter just past, which is to say, crappy. I’m pretty sure

I have resolved to pledge what remains of the months formerly known as summer to spiritual matters. to failure but was surprised it lasted as long as it did—from early morning when I first thought of it until cocktail hour that afternoon. A personal best.

“Chilly. The water’s chilly.” The words were uttered over the most recent holiday weekend by a post-adolescent male clothed in a dripping swimsuit and enrobed in not-quite-lost baby fat, reinforced by a supersized, and I almost hesitate to say, Alberta lifestyle. They were uttered in a strained falsetto masking pain, astonishment and that particularly selfconscious loathing one feels for oneself when one is stupid enough to accept a bet best left on the table. He’d made the mistake

that’s what makes it, relatively, so much harder to take. Having soldiered through a pandemic-foreshortened winter with the resolve of a 12-Step program survivor, it’s all too much like a rerun. The grass is too wet to mow, too dry to swim in. Everywhere I step on the sprawling expanse of Smilin’ Dog Manor, I hear “Squish” and leave a pondfilling footprint.

I’ve lived in British Columbia long enough to accumulate a breathtaking variety of all-weather—reputedly waterproof— clothing. Nonetheless, I’m resigned to walking in the rain, paddling in the rain, gardening in the rain and generally hanging in the rain long enough and actively enough

that the accumulated sweat underneath the Gore-Tex reaches stasis with the outside air and I wind up just as wet as if I’d just been wearing a cotton T-shirt or plastic bag. Working on the theory that if I ever get to the point of actually enjoying being in the rain it’ll stop just to spite me, it becomes clearer and clearer that SAD is not an affliction limited to winter month’s parsimonious daylight hours.

So I seek refuge in things relatively trivial. Strawberries and beans are growing apace in their ramshackle yet rain-proof enclosure and are managing to ripen and give the appearance of being bountiful. Cold weather plants—potatoes, peas, carrots, beets and such—haven’t yet drowned and hold out hope of one day being edible.

Rainbows appear frequently late in the day when the sun, at least I think it’s the sun, drops below the bank of relentless clouds just before setting. A family of loons hasn’t had their chicks eaten by the eagles yet. A week’s worth of hot sun might warm the lake enough to swim in. I could win the lottery. Pigs could fly.

There are a lot worse things than a no-show summer. I’m not certain what they are right now but people do mention the lack of wildfire hazard and, admittedly, evacuating to a shelter would be akin to the frying-pan-into-the-fire cliché in this time of social distancing. As comfort goes, that’s relatively thin gruel. But as Annie sang, the sun will come out tomorrow. Until then, I’m going out to stand in the wet spot of sunshine falling on the ground, before it vanishes for another few days, and pretend it’s summer. n

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