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Sick Fallen The

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How Canada weathered a deadly influenza at the height of the First World WarÂ

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36 The Sick and The Fallen How Canada weathered a deadly influenza pandemic at the height of the First World War. - By Brandon Barrett

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PLANNING A ROUTE

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are pushing back against a project to bury utility lines in their

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neighbourhood.

test its emergency route plan, which is currently in development.

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10 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letter writers this week say thanks to Whistler for the support of

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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Spring ahead, fall back, or stay right where you are? This week, columnist Andrew Mitchell delves into all the ways daylight saving time impacts our lives.

62 MAXED OUT This week, G.D. Maxwell has some outside-the-box ideas for how to tackle Whistler’s ongoing housing problems.

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35 RANGE ROVER It might seem like COVID-19 caught the world off guard, but scientists warned

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48 MUSEUM MUSINGS Blackcomb Mountain opened in 1980 to much excitement. However, that inaugural season wasn’t a white one.

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Remembering a time when things were worse I DON’T KNOW about you, but I never imagined I’d be living through a moment of global history.

The idea that, in my lifetime, an event would come along that would change everything about how our world operated never crossed my mind, even in passing.

As much as we’ve been tossing around the word “unprecedented” (and “pivot” and

BY ALYSSA NOEL arts@piquenewsmagazine.com

“Zoom” as a verb—not in the zipping-along definition of the word), in some regards there is precedent for some of the aspects of this crisis.

There is precedent for events that affect almost every member of the global

This isn’t to downplay how hard life is for many people right now. If your mental health is suffering, you are certainly not alone, and there are resources like those offered

by Whistler Community Services Society (mywcss.org). I feel deeply for everyone whose social connections, livelihood, and future plans have been affected.

But sometimes, for some people, it helps to count the ways in which we’re actually lucky by comparison to so many who had to live through and fight in World Wars.

In the most simplistic terms, from 1914 to 1918 and again from 1939 to 1945, families around the world had to send their loved ones to fight bloody wars without ever knowing if they would return. Yes, ostensibly, people could still come together for gatherings and celebrations—that is until 1918 when the Spanish flu broke out, ultimately infecting a third of the world’s population over two years.

You’re not being asked to potentially sacrifice your life; you’re being asked to wear a mask for what will hopefully be a reasonably short period of time in the span of your life. community, in which some people suffer more deeply than others, and during which life feels like it might never return to normal.

We’re set to mark some of those tragic events on Nov. 11, though, of course, like all community gatherings, it will look a little different this year.

To that end, Remembrance Day seems especially poignant in 2020.

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Can you even fathom dealing with a pandemic like COVID-19 after a World War that killed 8.5 million soldiers?

If anything, the current pandemic can give us a glimpse into that unique horror—only imagine if there were fewer medical resources, less advanced science, and a higher mortality rate for a larger demographic of people.

Then, less than two decades after overcoming those global tragedies, another World War broke out—this time killing 20 million soldiers. (That’s not even counting civilian casualties.)

By comparison, we have so much more control. Yes, many of us worry about loved ones contracting the virus, but there are several ways everyone can mitigate their risks.

Rather than being asked to put our lives on hold so our loved ones can head overseas in bloody combat, we’re being asked to put aspects of our life on hold and, instead, skip out on gatherings, wear masks, and wash our hands.

And somehow, there are people who have the audacity to complain that donning a little cloth over their face is infringing upon their rights.

I very much hate the term snowflake (mostly because of the type of people who use it), but I’m not sure there’s ever been a more apt situation for it.

You’re not being asked to potentially sacrifice your life; you’re being asked to wear a mask for what will hopefully be a reasonably short period of time in the span of your life. (And, hey, they come in really cute patterns now anyway.)

A little perspective can sometimes be helpful. While most of us aren’t looking forward to winter with higher COVID numbers, fewer parties, and more personal precautions, it’s good to keep in mind that it certainly could be worse.

The next time you complain about having to hunker down in front of Netflix in your safe, warm, comfortable home, cast your memory back several decades and consider the people who would’ve been happy to trade places with you.

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Thank you for scholarship support As we approach Remembrance Day, we wanted to write to thank Whistler for its generous contributions to the Walter Zebrowski Memorial Rotary Scholarship Fund.

Given your generosity this year, we were able to award two $1,000 scholarships to two outstanding graduates from Whistler Secondary School, Jade Quinn-McDonald and David Mehta.

I am proud to say that since 1997, 25 scholarships have been awarded.

I myself watched the graduation [ceremony] via Zoom.

I was very moved to witness the energy and enthusiasm of the graduating class.

The Rotary Club of Whistler hosted interviews with both scholarship recipients. I felt proud that the scholarship could help to support the dreams of these two worthy young students as they enter university.

Walter himself would be proud. He was always optimistic and always believed in giving back.

2020 has been a strange year to say the least.

A year full of challenges and sacrifices.

We can only hope that there will be a vaccine soon and that this moment of “pause” will be over.

I think after such a year we value the spirit of community even more.

thinking of our veterans and remembering their countless sacrifices. All proceeds will go towards the Legion Poppy Fund in support of Canada’s veterans and their families.

You and your family or business can be part of this visual representation that honours Canada’s Veterans, 75 years after the end of the Second World War. If you would like to make a donation, please contact: legionbranch201@gmail.com.

Lesley Clark // Branch President, Royal Canadian Legion—Pemberton Branch 201

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The Walter Zebrowski Scholarship is our way of remaining optimistic about the future.

Doug Forseth and I are grateful for your support and for the support and leadership the Rotary Club of Whistler has demonstrated in its involvement with this annual scholarship award.

We join with them to thank you again for your continued enthusiasm and generosity. We look forward to remaining in touch.

Thank you for celebrating Walter and his commitment to the community of Whistler.

Ewa Zebrowski and Doug Forseth // Walter Zebrowski Memorial Rotary Scholarship Fund

Lay wreath to show veterans we remember Due to COVID-19, the Pemberton Remembrance Day Service will look a little different this year.

We will not be able to hold an outside service at our Cenotaph, as the public is discouraged from attending in person. [So] we are encouraging everyone to participate virtually by watching our live feed from home. Details will be posted soon on our Facebook page.

Since there are no spectators this year, we asked the public to help us fill the space around the Cenotaph with wreaths. The wreaths will act as a visual symbol that Canadians are still

(Editor’s note: This letter was sent to mayor and council and shared with Pique.)

Gentrification is the process of changing the character of the neighbourhood through the influx of more affluent residents, spilling over from neighbouring cities, towns or neighbourhoods.

Whistler has been a strong advocate through MAC [Mature Action Community] of aging in place. Having spent almost 50 years as a resident homeowner in White Gold, I find the present attempt to gentrify the neighbourhood by relocating the present BC Hydro lines underground repugnant.

Why? The costs of supplying underground electricity is approximately three times that of overhead power lines. Both of which are subject to their own frailties.

The inequality of supplying underground electricity to an old, established neighbourhood can be disproportionate. Older homes are already connected to the grid. Major prohibitive costs can be incurred to bring the already existing transmission of

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR electricity underground from the street to the house.

Over the years of my residing in White Gold, many of our power outages originated upstream of our subdivision. Underground or not, the same failures would occur.

My suggestions: • Repave the road if it “really” is necessary to do so; • Keep the poles in place and save millions of taxpayer dollars; • In case of power failure, as we have done over the years, call BC Hydro.

The under-grounding of the transmission of power in White Gold bears too high a price for the proposed cosmetic upgrade.

Tom Thomson // Whistler

Magic relationship ratio important in workplace Have you heard of the magic relationship ratio? It states that you need five positive interactions in a relationship to outweigh one negative interaction.

Although it usually comes up in the context of interpersonal relationships, I’ve recently been thinking of it in the context of working with the public.

Those of us working customer-facing roles have good days and bad days just like anybody else. We have family members we worry about.

We have uncertainty about our jobs and the future. And this year, each workday is particularly unpredictable as we get pushback from customers on mask-wearing, temperature-checking, building capacity, and various other new health protocols.

To be clear, the majority of customers are respectful and appreciative of the efforts that are being made to safeguard the health of staff and customers. Going back to the magic relationship ratio, however, I would say the effect of negative interactions is amplified more than ever in a time of COVID. These days, any time a customer brings negative energy into a workspace, it seems to affect every staff member, and resonate throughout the rest of the day. Not to mention, in a personal relationship, we have agency to push back against negativity, whereas at work we must do our best to simply keep calm and carry on. I would say the magic relationship ratio at work is more like 10:1.

Therefore, I ask you to remember that the person behind the mask is also human, and we’re all doing the best we can to manage this challenging year. Next time you leave your house, please try to think about how you can be that positive interaction that helps tip the scale in the right direction.

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Halloween (mostly) a safe success I wanted to take the time to thank our inspiring community for adapting to the newest orders regarding COVID-19, specifically on Halloween.

It was truly remarkable to see how folks found creative and safe ways to provide joy and create a memorable Halloween, for both children and adults alike.

People’s willingness to stay in their own neighbourhoods and the many creative solutions to safely bless our children with sweet treats and to provide a little fun despite the pandemic, (including distanced candy shoots using tubing, fairy/gnome forest walks and even a haunted forest ending with pre-ordered pizzas) reminds me how grateful I am to live in such a compassionate, respectful and creative community!

Although I’m not a fan of clichés, “we are only as strong as our weakest link,” seems relevant regarding those few parents of highschool children, that in spite of communication from [provincial health officer] Dr. [Bonnie] Henry, our mayor, the high-school leadership, and in some cases, personal phone calls from concerned parents, chose to host Halloween parties, providing beverages for attendees, and creating exactly the unsafe conditions that we know have been responsible for the recent and alarming rise of COVID cases in our province.

It’s my hope that as we move towards the most dangerous several months of the pandemic, we all make decisions that continue to demonstrate our respect for each other. I also want to remind everyone that although you may know them, there are many vulnerable members of our community, for whom this pandemic causes an added layer of stress and anxiety.

Right now, we have wonderful an opportunity to let our friends and neighbours know we do respect and care about them by making the necessary personal changes and sacrifices, that I know are uncomfortable, to ensure we do everything possible to prevent further spread of this virus, and also hopefully prevent any further restrictions that could impact all of us.

It’s much easier to wear a mask and reduce your social circles to a “safe six” than endure more possible restrictions and further negative economic impact.

The way the majority of our community came together on Halloween, gives me hope that we will continue to work together and find creative ways to continue to inspire joy and laughter, and get through these next new few months safely and together.

Be well.

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Saving daylight saving time FOR ANYONE slightly inconvenienced by the time change last Saturday night, and who felt the need to blow that minor inconvenience up into something much bigger than it really is, there’s some good news on the horizon: Premier John Horgan

BY ANDREW MITCHELL remains committed to making daylight saving time permanent at some point in the future, probably.

He just didn’t feel it was a good time without Alberta and the western U.S. states also making the change this year, what with COVID and all.

I get the frustration with daylight saving time. Sort of. It can throw you off for a few days, affecting sleep patterns and circadian rhythms and whatnot. Changing clocks is also annoying and almost nobody can remember how to change the time on their car radios, which for most of us means subtracting an hour for the next six months.

The whole “spring forward, fall back” thing is also confusing—falling back sounds like it should be a “later” thing, moving the clocks back from seven to eight instead of moving the little hand back by an hour. Is adding

more daylight in the morning the time-saving part or is it adding an hour at night? It also seems like winter is the time you want to save daylight, not summer. It’s all so complicated.

And it’s not like we’re farmers anymore, except for those of us who are.

Fun fact: it turns out that farmers have nothing to do with daylight saving time, they just get blamed for it because they protested the change in the beginning and somehow ended up becoming permanently associated with it. Farmers preferred to keep their animals on a regular schedule and always just worked when it was light out whatever the clock said.

Where did DST come from? Germany was the first country to do the math on changing the clocks during the First World War when things like coal were in short supply.

Another fun fact: it’s daylight “saving” time, not daylight “savings” time. I just figured that out this year after this column was finished and a dozen plurals needed to singularized.

The global movement to freeze clocks is currently focused on DST, although there are also people who would prefer to keep clocks on standard time going forward. Not only do both sides find clock changes annoying, they also believe it may contribute to a spike in heart attacks and deaths as a result of sleep cycle changes. The energy savings aren’t all that great, either.

It’s no wonder that so many governments are looking at getting rid of biannual clock changes. One recent survey found 93 per cent of British Columbians were in favour of freezing the clock on DST, especially if it keeps the province aligned with neighbours to the east and south. Some 91 per cent of Albertans agree and the Washington state government has already voted in favour of making the change at a future date.

That support puts me in a minority of people who is glad that the shift to permanent DST was delayed so people have a chance to think this through. Changing clocks is a good thing.

There’s no question that DST is great in the summer. Without it, it would start to get light out around 3 a.m. in late June—a time of day when almost nobody can use it. It would also get dark by 9 p.m., taking away an hour of after-work running and riding time. I love that I can finish work at 5 p.m. and spend a good four hours having fun in the great outdoors.

But I also like turning the clocks back in the winter. I appreciate that it’s light outside when I get to work in the morning in the middle of winter. I appreciate that my daughter doesn’t have to walk to school under the stars and spend her first hour learning under artificial light. I also like that it’s light enough out to open the lifts by 8:30 a.m., something that would

need to be pushed back if it stays dark longer. An extra hour of darkness in the morning would be depressing.

As dangerous as changing the clocks might be for our health, what do you imagine will happen when millions of sleepy people have to drive to work when it’s still pitch black outside? My guess is that car accidents will turn out to be more dangerous than any slight changes to circadian rhythms.

We’re only talking about an hour at the end of the day. People don’t get jet-lagged after they travel to Alberta and lose an hour (although the effects of a one-hour time difference might explain the erratic driving of vehicles with orange plates on this side of the border).

I do think time changes could be managed better. For example, clocks should change overnight on Fridays instead of Saturdays to give people an extra day to adjust to that massive one-hour difference. Better yet, we could make the changes on long weekend Fridays to give people a whole three sleeps to reset their internal clocks.

Daylight saving time remains a good idea even if the reasons behind it may have changed. If you really think about the benefits of our current schedule, and measure those benefits against the very minor inconvenience, ditching seasonal clock changes is something we’ll probably regret. ■

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White Gold beautification gets go-ahead from council MASSIVE, PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN COSTS TO SOME HOMEOWNERS PROMPTS PUSHBACK

BY BRADEN DUPUIS A PROJECT TO bury the utility lines in Whistler’s White Gold neighbourhood is moving ahead after council voted to pursue next steps at its Nov. 3 meeting—but it could have drastic financial impacts for some homeowners, who say the full personal costs were not initially made clear.

Depending on the age of their homes and the complexity of their properties, owners could be on the hook for up to $22,500 for the upgrade, not counting an annual tax increase needed to cover the project costs.

“It’s really sad,” said Monique Wilberg, who built a home in White Gold 18 years ago.

“There are people who volunteer in the community, who have raised their kids here, who contribute on a regular basis … and they’re literally scratching their heads, thinking, ‘what?’”

But council’s decision—a 5-1 vote, with only Councillor Jen Ford dissenting—was made more difficult by the fact the project was initiated by the neighbourhood itself.

Under Section 212 of the Community Charter, homeowners may petition a municipality for a “local service area,” with the costs being recovered via an add-on to annual property taxes over a number of years.

On Sept. 5, 2019, council received a letter from Toni Metcalf, speaking as a resident of the neighbourhood (Metcalf is also the RMOW’s economic development coordinator—she recused herself from the

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Nov. 3 discussion), expressing the interest of White Gold residents to initiate a formal petition process for the work.

Of 160 total affected properties, 93 voted in favour of the project, said capital projects manager Tammy Shore at the Nov. 3 meeting.

But some residents say the individual costs weren’t known upfront; some have even rescinded their support.

According to Ian Reith, a 19-year resident of the neighbourhood who voted against the petition from the start, there was “never” any indication those costs might reach $22,000 during the petition process.

While Reith doesn’t know what the project will cost him yet, he said burying the power lines will mean digging under his house to connect to where the fuse box is.

“I know that’s going to be pricey. I just can’t imagine anybody burrowing under my house to do that is going to be cheap,” he said with a laugh.

While the costs are prohibitive, Reith’s other “big concern” is what the process has done to the neighbourhood he’s called home for nearly two decades.

“It seems to have fractured it. It’s the people who were in favour of it, and anybody who expressed any negatives sort of got shunned,” he said.

“There’s no sympathy. It was just like, ‘Oh well,’ and off they go, and all’s they needed was their 50-per-cent majority.”

Though some residents are also taking issue with the fact that the petition deadline was extended from Sept. 15 to Oct. 9 to allow foreign owners more time to respond after COVID-19 caused mail delays, the entire process was independently verified by corporate officer Brooke Browning, who issued a certificate of sufficency on Oct. 26,

Shore said.

Wilburg was one owner who initially voted in favour of the petition before more information became available.

Though her home would likely be on the lower end of the personal cost scale, the added burden to her neighbours—and the fracturing of the neighbourhood—is deeply concerning.

“White Gold is just such a lovely neighbourhood. We could have bought land anywhere when we bought, and we wanted to buy here because of the mix of houses, because they’re not all giant homes,” she said.

“Driving these people out of the community … if you knew some of the people that are in this position, and the work that they do in this community—it’s just super disheartening.”

The project drew a flurry of queries and comments during the public Q and A at the Nov. 3 meeting, including from White Gold resident Donna Green, who voiced support.

The project is about more than beautification, Green said—it’s about safety.

“We’ve had snow come down so that we’ve had wires broken and sparks flying all over the place, so although it may be just a beautification project to some, for us it is a safety issue,” she said.

“I think what you have now is definitely a majority that is showing a very strong will to understand that this is a very good project for this area. In any kind of voting system you will always have people that may disagree with a particular project.”

The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) was awarded a BC Hydro Beautification grant for the project in November 2019, of which it expects it will be able to claim $860,000 to cover applicable expenses.

Factoring in the grant, the RMOW will need to borrow $4.66 million from the Municipal Finance Authority to fund the project, which White Gold residents will pay back over a 30-year amortization period via their increased tax bills (about $1,500 per year).

Based on letters received from residents, the RMOW estimates about 16 property owners are opposed to the project.

Owners were given a four-day window between Oct. 10 and 14 to rescind their support for the petition, Shore said, which one person did.

Though council voiced “agony” over the difficult decision, a pair of resolutions directing staff to proceed passed 5-1.

“It’s fine to say that your home value will go up when you decide to sell, but not everyone wants to sell anytime soon. Some people have no option to sell,” said Ford, the only councillor to vote in opposition, adding that she struggles with the precedent the decision sets.

“There are a lot of properties in this town that can not afford $30,000, which I know sounds like not very much when your home is worth $3 million, but it’s a dangerous precedent, for my comfort,” she said.

But for Mayor Jack Crompton and other members of council, denying a valid petition that followed a legislative process could set a different sort of precedent.

“We have to live with the legislative processes that guide us,” Crompton said after the meeting.

“When 50 per cent of a community makes a request that they are within their rights to make to council, I think we’re obligated to respond accordingly. Other

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WHITE GOLD FROM PAGE 14 neighbourhoods and other parts of our community should be able to expect the same kind of predictable response from their local government.”

As for the financial hardship for some owners, Crompton said they have options.

“The idea of tax deferral is one that I think makes more sense than selling your homes. Ultimately those are decisions made by individual homeowners, and I hope they stay,” he said.

“The people in that neighbourhood built this town, and I hope they’ll stay engaged, stay here, and continue to be a part of the

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survive the COVID-19 crisis, workplace culture can often fall by the wayside when there are bills piling up at the end of the month. But, according to Dr. Mark Colgate, professor at the University of Victoria’s (UVic) Gustavson School of Business and one of the visionaries behind the Whistler Experience program, it’s even more important to foster a positive workplace through times of turbulence.

“Obviously we’re in a pandemic and it’s difficult to see beyond that,” said Colgate. “What the research shows is the organizations that come out [of major disruptions] ahead are the ones that stay calm, the ones that can see through it, the ones that understand what we need to do now so we can come out further ahead. One of those things is to look at what you’re doing as an organization, double down on your workplace culture, and help your employees be even more effective in their roles.”

Colgate is teaming up with fellow professor Brian Leacock and the BC Chamber to offer a six-week program called Building Resilience to Thrive that is aimed at helping small- and medium-sized business owners adapt their model to the pandemic, re-engage customers, and tweak their workplace culture.

“Of course there are a lot of different training programs out there, but we wanted to offer a more unique program that’s more about the business owner themselves,” explained Dan Baxter, director of policy development, government and stakeholder relations for the BC Chamber.

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Taking care of your staff is especially crucial in times when employees are being asked to do more with less, said Colgate.

And with more than two-thirds of resort businesses with 50 employees or more reporting in a recent Whistler Chamber of Commerce poll that they won’t have enough workers this winter, getting the most of the limited staff available will be essential.

“At the end of the day, when you’re shortstaffed, productivity is critical,” he said.

“You can’t expect your staff will be more productive by just hoping they’ll work harder in the whirlwind. Even if you dedicate five or 10 minutes at the beginning of every shift to getting the team together or having a oneon-one with an individual, that five-minute conversation can be incredibly powerful.”

The program is also aimed at helping businesses think about what they offer and how they can adapt their customer experience during COVID. For Whistler tourism-oriented businesses that rely on group gatherings, completely reimagining your business model can be a tall order, but simply listening to your customer’s wants and needs is an effective first step, Colgate said.

“Creativity comes from really understanding your customer experience and the things you can add to broaden and personalize the experience a little bit more,’ he said.

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WITH burning questions about the municipal budget—and the exact scope of the COVID-sized hole in the middle of it—will have a chance to learn more at a budget open house on Monday, Nov. 16.

The meeting will kick off at 5:30 p.m. over Zoom (due to COVID).

“Following the presentation, community members will be able to ask questions of staff and council, and there will be breakout rooms in Zoom to further discuss what was presented and ask questions,” said Mayor Jack Crompton at the Nov. 3 council meeting.

“COVID has had a significant impact on municipal finances, as I’m sure you’d expect.

I highly encourage everyone to join the open house to learn more.”

Video of the event and related materials will be posted to whistler.ca/ budgetopenhouse after Nov. 16.

As for if the community can expect a shift in spending priorities in light of COVID, Crompton said he’d like to hear from residents.

“One of the reasons that we engage in a public budget process is so that we can gain input to guide decisions,” he said after the

meeting. “Council’s priorities are housing, climate action and community balance, so I expect you’ll see investments in those directions.”

There will also be a focus on asset replacement and maintaining a strong reserve balance, Crompton added, which leads to what is perhaps the hottest-burning question of all: how will COVID affect your taxes?

It’s too early to say, the mayor said, but that info is (tentatively) scheduled to come before council on Dec. 1.

Read more about Whistler’s budgeting process at whistler.ca/budget.

CLEANBC APPLICATION SUPPORTED The Resort Municipality of Whistler, District of Squamish, Village of Pemberton and Lil’wat Nation are collaborating to expand the availability of electric vehicle charging stations in the Sea to Sky corridor.

The four corridor communities are working on a group submission to the province’s CleanBC Communities Fund to help pay for 43 new EV stations over the next four years—24 of which would be in Whistler.

On Nov. 3, Whistler council directed staff to submit an application to the fund for 73.3 per cent of the total project costs.

A second resolution passed by council commits the RMOW to paying a maximum of $544,934 for its share of the project over four years (if the CleanBC application is successful) from its capital reserves.

The project is designed to address gaps in the public EV charging network in the Sea to Sky corridor, said climate action coordinator Luisa Burhenne in a presentation to council.

Whistler currently has about 40 public EV chargers, including 26 Level 2 EV chargers in the Day Lots, which represent about 1.5 per cent of summer parking and one per cent of winter parking.

With EV adoption already trending higher than required by B.C.’s zero emission vehicle mandate (that 15 per cent of new vehicle sales are EV by 2025, 30 per cent by 2030 and 100 per cent by 2040), a lack of adequate charging may soon become a real hurdle, Burhenne said.

Of the 43 proposed new chargers, 28 would be dual-port Level 2, and 15 would be Level 3 (16 and eight in Whistler, respectively).

The mix was recommended by stakeholders, Burhenne said, noting that Level 2 chargers can recharge a car in about five to eight hours—a good fit for the Day Lots (though there is flexibility around where the new chargers are installed,

Burhenne said).

Level 3 chargers, which can charge a car in 20 to 60 minutes, are better located near highways, convenience stores or coffee shops, she said.

Factoring in maintenance, electrical services and snow removal costs, the new infrastructure comes with estimated annual operation costs of about $56,400, Burhenne noted.

A resolution introduced by Councillor Cathy Jewett will compel Burhenne to return to council at a later date with another report looking at cost recovery options for the maintenance and installation of the infrastructure.

It would be “very simple” to install a cost structure on the new charging machines, Burhenne said, noting that municipal staff can customize the fee charged to use the machines.

Coun. Ralph Forsyth voted against, positing that the provincial funding won’t be in place forever, and that the proposal from Burhenne was rushed to meet a Nov. 12 deadline.

“This isn’t the business we should be in,” he said. “Even if it was our business, I’m not sure that this is a great deal for our taxpayers, and I’m not sure that it’s ready for primetime.” n

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RMOW pondering rodenticide ban FOR PETS, INGESTING POISON ‘A HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE,’ SAYS LOCAL VET

BY BRADEN DUPUIS FOLLOWING A visit to the vet, Shannen Carlson believed her beloved husky, Camo, was in the clear after accidently ingesting rodent poison on the Village Stroll in Whistler in 2017.

But less than a year later, Camo passed away from cancer.

“We can’t say for sure it had anything to do with [the rodent poison]; it’s one of those things that we’ll just never know,” Carlson said.

“But it was very disappointing what happened at the time, that there was some recklessness and carelessness in the village for that to happen. Whistler is a very dog-friendly community, and people are constantly walking their pets, and anything could happen.”

According to Camo’s medical summary from Twin Trees Veterinary Clinic, the 10-yearold former sled dog had ingested “several packets” of the green poison, which works by interfering with the body’s ability to clot blood, causing death by internal bleeding.

Attending veterinarian Melinda Lopez declined an interview with Pique, instead deferring to a Sept. 1 presentation she gave to Whistler council on behalf of Sea to Sky

Injured Wildlife asking for rodent poisons to be banned.

The use of rodent poison is widespread in Whistler, and their containers can be found outside of businesses, hotels, Airbnbs and private residences, Lopez said.

“I can’t count how many pets I have actually treated for rodent poison ingestion,” she said, noting that a YouTube video on the topic posted to her clinic’s channel is their most popular video.

“I just think we need to jump onboard.

It’s not just pets, but wildlife and children as well.”

There’s “absolutely no reason” to be using poison when traps are available, Lopez said, adding that using poison is an “out of sight, out of mind” tactic.

“You never see what happens, but that’s also the disadvantage, because actually some of us do see what happens,” she said.

“I’ve seen pets being brought in for rodenticide poisoning at all stages, and it’s a horrible way to die.”

Rodent poisons are “hardly ever properly stored,” Lopez said.

And as was the case with Camo, while some dogs can be treated for the initial poison ingestion, they may develop complications down the line, Lopez added.

“One of these patients was a young

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puppy. I think she was only 10 weeks old when she ingested rat poison on the Village Stroll,” she said.

The puppy’s initial treatment seemed to have a result, but “several months later she developed liver failure for unknown

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“The owner spent thousands, possibly 10-plus thousand, at a specialty hospital trying to save her, and was unable to. And at the back of our mind, we’re always wondering if this was possibly a sequela to having been exposed to poison months earlier.”

As it stands, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) contracts pest control to a local company, which relies on poisons for mice and live removal where possible.

As a result of Lopez’s presentation, “the RMOW will be transitioning toward more humane ways to deter mice through continued mitigation measures, research and by working with our service providers’ expertise and reach,” a spokesperson said.

Further, the RMOW’s current pesticide use bylaw does not ban the use of rodenticides if they are used to provincial standards, the spokesperson said.

“The RMOW is in the very early stages of investigating the opportunity to update our bylaws and ban their use,” the spokesperson said.

“Further discussion around a complete ban of these products is required with input from the community.”

The RMOW also plans to run a social media campaign next fall reminding of the dangers of using poison for pest control. n

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Lil’wat father and son found dead after extensive search PAIR HAD GONE MISSING MUSHROOM PICKING IN A COLD SNAP THE NIGHT OF OCT. 22

BY BRANDON BARRETT A MISSING LIL’WAT father and son were found dead in the Pemberton backcountry last week after an extensive community search that brought together dozens of volunteers.

Stl’atl’imx Tribal Police and the Pemberton RCMP confirmed the news last Thursday, Oct. 29 after a search crew first located the father, Peter Oleski, at around 2 p.m. Police and Pemberton Search and Rescue attended the area, where they later found the son, River Leo. Both were deceased.

“I cannot fully express my gratitude for the women and men who searched for River and Peter,” said Kúwpi7 Skalúlmecw Chief Dean Nelson in a release. “The support we received from our neighbours in Pemberton was overwhelming, as was the dedication and commitment of those who combed the

mountains looking for the men.”

“We ask that everyone respect the wishes of the family and give them the time and space they need. Information on a

“I cannot fully express my gratitude for the women and men who searched for River and Peter.”

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gathering will be forthcoming.”

The pair went missing mushroom picking in the Upper McKenzie basin during a cold snap the night of Oct. 22. The following day,

TRAGIC END Peter Oleski and River Leo went missing in a cold snap on the night of Oct. 22. They were found

dead a week later near the McKenzie River after an extensive community search that brought together dozens of volunteers and search crews.

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Mounties were requested to assist tribal police, joining the already extensive search efforts led by the Lil’wat Nation.

In the days that followed, volunteers, friends, tribal police, RCMP, and dozens of search-and-rescue teams from across the province took part in the search, which included help from a 442 Squadron Cormorant helicopter and commercial air services.

“Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Peter and River and with the Lil’wat Nation,” says Sgt. Sascha Banks of the Sea to Sky RCMP in a release. “The determination of the Lil’wat community and

the search and rescue teams was inspiring to all those who participated in the search.

Although this is not the ending we had all hoped for, I am thankful they were located, as this is not always the case with those that go missing in our backcountry.”

The missing father and son struck a chord throughout the Sea to Sky, with hundreds of comments pouring in on private Facebook groups updating the community on the search’s progress.

The Stl’atl’imx Tribal Police, alongside Pemberton RCMP, will work with the BC Coroners Service on their coinciding investigations. n

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Whistler Therapeutics’ cannabis venture growing COMPANY LOOKS TO CREATE CONSISTENCY IN ORGANIC MEDICAL CANNABIS PRODUCTS

BY DAN FALLOON TWO

PEMBERTON residents are spearheading a venture seeking to tap cannabis for medical use.

Brishna Kamal and Daniel Lantela are co-CEOs of Whistler Therapeutics, which started two-and-a-half years ago, and this summer started to see a significant uptick.

The company is looking to produce, process and research cannabis grown in Lillooet at its 4.9-hectare Earthwolf Farms with significant focus on doing so responsibly, explained Lantela.

“What we really want to do is produce a certified organic or even regenerative medicine where we’re growing organically and regeneratively, improving the soil, sequestering carbon, doing things that are helpful to the health of the planet,” he said.

Whistler Therapeutics started growing its first crops this summer, utilizing 1.2 hectares at Earthwolf and another 3.2 hectares at its joint venture Backcountry Harvest farm.

“We bought the property and we licensed the property for growing cannabis this year. We got licensed pretty late this year, so our farm’s not at capacity,”

Kamal said, adding that the company is growing a wide variety of cannabis and testing several variables to create the best possible product.

“There’s a lot of diversity because it’s our first year of operations. What we’ve done is we’ve collected a lot of genetics,” she said. “We’re testing in different growing conditions, using different agricultural practices.

“We’re looking for those strains or cultivars that grow best in Lillooet in the sunshine, outdoors, organically.”

Next up is bringing a 985-square-metre research facility, formerly a biochemistry research institute, also in Lillooet, online.

All told, the venture currently has 12 employees in Lillooet, 11 in Whistler, four in Port Coquitlam, and there are hopes of adding another 30 in the next 18 months, according to Kamal.

Both scientists by training, Kamal and Lantela met in Montreal, and both worked for Whistler Medical Marijuana (WMM) for several years before venturing out on their own after Aurora Cannabis bought WMM. While at WMM, the duo utilized an icewater, oil-extraction technique, and later developed proprietary equipment to scale up the process. They spun that off into Whistler Technologies, using those sales to

fund Whistler Therapeutics.

Kamal explained that the company is looking to harness cannabis to treat conditions ranging from osteoarthritis to anxiety, with an eye toward creating consistency in the product.

Lantela, meanwhile, stressed that the ultimate goal is to receive a stamp of approval from the medical and scientific sectors.

“Our long-term focus is pharmaceutical development,” he said. “An interesting point to look at is the difference between the terms ‘medicinal’ and ‘medical.’ Medicinal means ‘having healing properties’ and there are tons of medicinal herbs. Medical means something that has been approved by our medical and scientific system.

“Cannabis right now is medicinal. We know it has healing properties and things that can help people’s conditions, but it hasn’t been approved by the medical community to be used for specific conditions.”

Lantela added that while some doctors are aware of some of cannabis’ positive properties, there’s not enough information available to properly prescribe it.

“They don’t know what type, what dose, how many times a day you’re supposed to take it,” he said. “What we want to do is take that scientific testing side where we produce a product that’s standardized and

direct it toward certain conditions.

“We saw that patients, if they were using cannabis for pain or anxiety, there were certain types of cannabis that they were choosing over and over that seemed to be the most effective, and there were others where they told us, ‘These don’t work at all.’”

With research into cannabis just starting, Kamal said uses could expand well beyond medical use, with products such as motor oil potentially having a cannabis element in the future.

“There are different ways of working with the plant and a lot of opportunity and I feel like having a research centre along the corridor is going to be helpful in attracting talent from all over the world,” she said.

Although legalization for recreational use came down more than two years ago, attitudes still exist that make it challenging to operate in the field.

“If we have that stigma, then I can’t really do my job,” said Kamal. “If I can’t study the plants, we can’t release products that are consistent that a patient can rely on, [so] what are we doing as a country?” she said. “Legalization hasn’t come.

Even though there was a date associated with it, there’s a lot of work to be done transitioning.”

For more, visit whistlertherapeutics.com. ■

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Family in Labour Day crash receives new car 10-YEAR-OLD WEST VANCOUVER RESIDENT RAISED MORE THAN $18,000

BY DAN FALLOON IT’S BEEN A CHALLENGING few weeks for a Lower Mainland family involved in a Labour Day weekend crash near Whistler, but a 10-year-old West Vancouver boy has helped make things a lot better.

Bear Yeung, who is part of the Whistler Mountain Ski Club’s U12 program, raised more than $18,000 to cover the cost of a 2017 Volkswagen Golf for the family, who wishes to remain anonymous to protect their privacy. The family was driving southbound in a Toyota Corolla on Sept. 5 when a Lamborghini taking part in the Hublot Diamond fundraising rally jumped the meridian and hit their car. (RCMP continue to investigate the accident, which also involved a black Range Rover not associated with the car rally.)

TJ Maruyama was driving the Corolla, which belonged to a friend who was also in the car with two children—they were returning from a two-day camping trip.

Maruyama said the family, which has asked to remain anonymous, received the car on Oct. 9, and is very appreciative. The Yeung family connected with the family through the RCMP. “It didn’t sound right at first,” said Maruyama. “I’d never heard any stories that a complete stranger would reach out and try to help financially and by getting a new vehicle for [the family],” Maruyama said.

Maruyama said the family was impacted not only by the crash and resulting physical and emotional trauma, but struggled from a practical perspective without the insurance to have a loaner vehicle to use in place of the Corolla, which was seized as evidence.

Yeung said that when he heard about the collision, and that two children, aged 10 and five, were hospitalized because of it, he felt he needed to take action.

“I don’t want anyone to deal with the same thing as what those kids and parent had to deal with,” he said. “I felt really proud and excited to give the car to them.”

Yeung’s father, Kevin, said that since they regularly drive the Sea to Sky Highway

GENEROUS GIFT Bear Yeung (right) presents a Lower Mainland family with a 2017 Volkswagen Golf after raising more than $18,000 to replace the family’s vehicle that was involved in a Sept. 5 crash near Whistler.

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as well, the news hit home.

“One of the kids is the same age as Bear, so it really resonated with both of our families that we’ve connected in this awful way,” said the dad.

Yeung’s fundraiser received support on GoFundMe from more than 40 people from across B.C., raising more than $10,000, while the Porsche Club of America: Canada West Region, of which Kevin is a member, saw nearly 30 members pony up donations to help cover the cost not only of the vehicle, but other associated costs.

“We felt really special and thankful for the family and of course, for Bear,” said Maruyama. “It started from his idea to start the campaign. He successfully collected more than enough money to pay for our vehicle and for taxes, insurance, warranty.

“We’re grateful to the donors and

supporters and most importantly, the Yeung family.”

Maruyama was also relieved that all involved walked away from the crash, as six people in total were hospitalized.

“They could have had much more severe injuries, or one of us could have died, and even though I’m at no fault, that would have been big emotional stress on myself,” he said. “I’m really glad that everyone’s recovered and safe and no one’s feeling any major aftereffects of the accident.”

As RCMP continue to investigate the cause of the accident Bear felt it important to remind drivers, especially as winter approaches, to remain vigilant on the roads. “We need stronger people like you adults to protect us,” he said. “I want dangerous drivers to slow down and protect us.” ■

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Stuck between a rock and a hard place, stranded Whistler hikers rely on kindness of strangers CHARLES REYNOLDS AND NINA WILLS HAVE PAIR OF LOGGERS TO THANK FOR GETTING THEM—AND THEIR NEW CAR—OUT OF REMOTE VANCOUVER ISLAND WILDERNESS

BY BRANDON BARRETT CHARLES REYNOLDS had a surprise in store for his girlfriend Nina’s 28th birthday: an impromptu trip to the isolated backcountry of Vancouver Island.

Both competitive ultra-distance runners, the couple was no stranger to navigating the kind of rugged, remote terrain Reynolds had laid out for them; in fact, they relished it.

“Amongst our friend group, people would say we’re the athletes. We’re well versed in getting in shit,” Reynolds says.

But nothing could have prepared them for the challenge that lay ahead over the next two days.

Packed into their newly purchased 4x4, a Toyota Land Cruiser, they set off on a warm late-September day for a network of demanding trails and forest service roads (FSR) on the northern end of Vancouver Island, which recently has been marketed as a destination for off-roaders and a surefire way to boost tourism to the otherwise spartan area.

In fact, Reynolds has it on good authority—from online hiking forums, a copy of the Backroads Mapbook, and a local at a Campbell River brewery—that the specific route towards Woss they plan to take had been cleared for 4x4 use.

“What I didn’t know was, the route they’ve cleared is not the route from Campbell River to Woss; it’s the route from Campbell River to Sayward to Woss, so you have two sides of the triangle and can’t go straight across,” Reynolds relays. “But we had three sources of information, so we were stoked.”

That night, they drive on, travelling 50 kilometres or so to their campsite. At this point, it’s mostly forest service roads, “real easy travel,” Reynolds says. They spend the night at the rec site, before waking up early in order to make Woss by lunchtime.

As they venture further into the bush, the couple remarks on the labyrinth of trails they keep coming across. “Every kilometre, you’d get to like a four-way junction, and sometimes there’s a sign,

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become overgrown in the two years since the Backroads Mapbook was published.

Then, the vehicle gets caught on a tree.

They cut it down. Then they get stuck on another tree, and cut that down. “By this point, I knew we couldn’t turn around in this section, so we would have to push through,” Reynolds remembers.

Armed with just a single axe between them, the couple cuts their way through another 10 or so trees, moving at a snail’s pace. A rock the size of a softball becomes wedged into the side of their tire, taking an hour and a half to dislodge. They build makeshift bridges out of fallen trees to inch the car forward.

“Basically there was nowhere to turn around and we thought we’d get out of this thick bit and then we could think about turning around,” Reynolds says. “We got out of the thick bit and then it opened up again. Every time it got bad, the tension would release and it would draw you in.”

Dozens of kilometres from the nearest town, their food supply running low (“All we had were two one-quarter full packets of these absolutely delicious flavoured pistachio nuts,” Reynolds says), they walk ahead, leaving their car behind.

But instead of the network of FSRs they

so, growing fainter by the minute, when, like an oasis in the desert, Reynolds spots a white truck coming around the corner.

“We both cheered,” he says, “but I was in my little red swim shorts because I got too hot hiking in my trousers, so I looked like an idiot.”

Two rough-and-tumble loggers named Andy and Mike pull up, astonished to find anyone so deep in the bush. “This forest network is fucked. You shouldn’t be here,” one of them helpfully advises, before telling the couple of the multiple people who have disappeared in the same area over the past few years.

Explaining their mission to get to Sayward so they can buy a chainsaw, the loggers tell them they can have their pick of the five chainsaws they’ve got in the back of the pick-up. They even agree to drive the weary hikers back to their car, but the bush is too thick for their truck to get through, so they hike the treacherous few kilometres to the site, lugging their chainsaws.

As it turned out, they had found just the right guys for the job.

“We got there, and they literally looked like the most professional car recovery guys ever,” Reynolds says. “They managed to cut the trees down and they cut these perfect slabs in the trees, which they then used as ramps to get the car up. After that,

“Both of us have done longdistance events, but doing it with no food would have scared the shit out of me.”

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expect to find, it’s just more dense forest.

“We walked back, and my heart literally dropped into my stomach because I realized there was no way back and the way we were going was a dud,” Reynolds says.

They even consider cutting down a football field’s worth of trees with their lowly axe, before deciding they’d be better off making their way to the town of Sayward—still dozens of kilometres away by foot—where they plan to buy a chainsaw.

“Both of us have done long-distance events, but doing it with no food would have scared the shit out of me,” Reynolds confides.

With the Land Cruiser fully stuck, and faced with a long, daunting hike ahead, the couple realizes they might have to leave their new car behind.

“I was telling Nina, ‘This is serious. We may have to leave the car, and with winter coming, if we couldn’t find somebody to get it out in the next month, it’s done,’” Reynolds recalls. “It was really intense.”

Trying to keep things light, the couple jokes about what kind of chainsaw they’re going to buy, when, far ahead, they spot a truck zig-zagging down the road. They wave and yell frantically, trying to get the driver’s attention, only to watch it drive off in the distance.

They trudge on for another 20 km or

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they were literally cutting down trees like they were carving a turkey. It was so cool to watch.”

Elated they didn’t have to leave their $15,000 vehicle behind for what would have likely been months, the couple were “smiling for a day after that. It was like we were on drugs,” Reynolds says.

“Happiness is always the difference between expectation and reality and our expectation was … that the car would be fucked with, stuff stolen and left forever. To go from that to being out in the same day was a ridiculously good feeling. It was like getting told you’re expelled from school and then it all just goes away.”

In hindsight, Reynolds says he would’ve done more research to ensure the trails they would be venturing on were appropriate for their vehicle. The couple also plans to buy themselves a chainsaw.

But that doesn’t mean they regret their misadventure. Far from it.

“People are like, ‘Well, you won’t do that again.’ But I probably will,” Reynolds laughs. “The most important thing if you’re doing things like this in the mountains is to realize at some point you’re going to get stuck, and the difference between being fucked and having a good story is the attitude that you have when you’re fucked.” n

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Pemberton council seeks evacuation exercise funding COUNCIL BRIEFS: FUNDS REALLOCATED FOR WELLHOUSE AND PUMPING STATION BACKUP GENERATOR

BY DAN FALLOON AT ITS REGULAR COUNCIL meeting on Nov. 3, Village of Pemberton (VOP) council opted to apply for Union of BC Municipalities Evacuation Route Planning funding as part of a joint project with the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) and the District of Squamish.

If the application is successful, the funding would support an evacuation exercise in the Pemberton Valley and Squamish floodplain areas to test the assumptions made regarding the existing evacuation route plan, according to a report from emergency program coordinator Sarah Toews. The funding covers 100 per cent of the cost up to $25,000.

The VOP was previously successful with a joint application with the SLRD and Lil’wat Nation from the same UBCM funding stream in 2018. That grant funded an evacuation route plan through the Pemberton Valley, which the Village received in February. The plan itself included such information as traffic modelling and mapping while also evaluating timelines of how long it would take to evacuate in various scenarios.

The report said it’s key to test these models in a practical way.

“A joint exercise will test and validate these assumptions and feed into the updates and developments of the operational components of Evacuation Plans in the SLRD, DOS and the Village,” the report reads.

Once this is completed, the final version of the plan will come to council for approval.

WELLHOUSE AND PUMPING STATION BACKUP GENERATOR Council also voted on Nov. 3 to allocate funds for a project that has been in its work plan for several years.

EVACUATION EXERCISE The Village of Pemberton is seeking funding to test its emergency route plan.

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In a report submitted to council, manager of operations and projects Tom Csima sought funding for a standby generator for the Village Wellhouse and Pumping Station.

The project was identified as a priority in 2018, but during the 2020 budget process, council opted to shift those funds to the search for a fourth well. With that search coming up empty, operations has shifted back to improving the quality of its current wells and is looking to bump the funds back to the standby generator project.

“Currently this critical Village infrastructure has no back-up power capabilities, leaving the entire Village water system vulnerable during emergency or routine power outages,” Csima’s report says.

The report outlines two options: a generator at roughly 275 kilowatts that would power both wellhouse pumps and miscellaneous loads including lighting, HVAC, controls and chemical injection or one at roughly 200 kilowatts that could run one pump and the miscellaneous loads.

“Current operation parameters allow for occasional simultaneous utilization of both

pumps during periods of extremely high water use, but generally only one pump operates at a given time,” the report notes.

However, Csima also adds that the first option, with its increased capacity, would better allow for future expansion and pump or facility upgrades while also creating less wear and tear for the generator itself. During the meeting, he added that the lifespan, with regular use, is 25 years, and with less use, it will last even longer.

With 20-per-cent contingencies built in, the first option is estimated to clock in at $192,000 while the second option would run $162,000, according to the opinion of probable cost reports from ISL Engineering and Land Services. Csima clarified that these rough figures are not quotes. Csima said ISL also presented a cost-saving option where the Village pre-purchases the generator to avoid a mark-up, though potential risks include additional costs with delays or possibly damaging the generator during pre-construction storage.

The report notes that the budget to explore options for developing a new well

in the 2020 budget was $360,000. Nearly $166,000 of that has been spent, leaving just over $194,000 available.

Csima noted that the search for a fourth well was to try to handle water quality issues, though there are alternative means of addressing those, at least temporarily, in the existing wells. In case of an emergency, the standby power generator is the far more pressing need.

“I cannot stress enough the importance of having standby power for the current water source,” Csima said, noting that the reservoir only stores enough water for one to two days.

“In the summer, we’d be lucky if that lasted us a day.”

Councillor Ted Craddock initially expressed concern over reallocating the funds, given its original planned use.

“To use this money to buy a generator, at this time, doesn’t seem to be going down the right road, whether we continue to do this investigation next year or not,” he said.

Chief administrative officer Nikki Gilmore explained that the reserves will be replenished as part of next year’s budget process.

“While this would use up some of the funds this year that had been earmarked, it wouldn’t be in excess of what had been allocated already,” Gilmore said. “I’m not suggesting that we just go and use all the reserves we have, but we will have another $370,000 we will be allocating towards reserves next year.”

Csima noted that ISL presented non-diesel options like propane, but recommended diesel because the Village’s four other generators are diesel.

“I’d like to see us start to trend away from diesel and gas and find other, less GHG emissions sources,” Mayor Mike Richman said.

Council ultimately voted to reallocate the funds and to amend the Five-Year Financial Plan to allow for the change. n

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Le Conseil scolaire francophone de la Colombie-Britannique (CSF) – Conseil scolaire N° 93 a fait une demande de modification du Plan d’aménagement officiel (OCP) et du Règlement de zonage du Village de Pemberton afin de permettre la construction d’une école publique/ centre communautaire francophone.

Dans le cadre du processus de modification du Plan d’aménagement officiel et du Règlement de zonage, le Village de Pemberton exige que le CSF tienne une séance d’information publique pour recueillir les commentaires des résidents vivant à proximité et pour évaluer l’appui de la communauté à cette modification.

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As part of the OCP and Zoning Amendment process, the CSF is required by the Village of Pemberton to hold a Public Information Session to gather nearby residents’ comments and gauge general community support for this amendment.

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To facilitate snow clearing, residents are reminded that as of November 15th, parking is not permitted on the even side of the street or in Village public parking lots between 9pm and 9am, 7 days a week.

Vehicles parked in contravention of the posted parking regulation will be ticketed and/or towed at the owner's expense. Winter Parking Regulations are in effect until March 31st.

You can help to ensure quick and efficient snow clearing by: • Keeping cul-de-sacs clear of vehicles; • Parking the entire vehicle in your drive way and off the roadways; • Yielding to the snow plow; • Not pushing snow onto the Village streets; and • By familiarizing yourself with the Village of Pemberton Snow Clearing and related Boulevard Maintenance Bylaws available at www.pemberton.ca.

Parking is not permitted on both sides of Dogwood St between Aster & Greenwood Streets.

Parking for 72 hours or more on Village streets is not permitted.

Unregistered and uninsured vehicles may not be parked on Village Streets or property.

Vehicles must be parked in the same direction as the flow of traffic.

For the safety of children, please ensure they refrain from playing on and around snowbanks. Snowbanks will be dumped on or moved, posing a serious threat to children playing in close proximity.

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Preference will be given to One position is available to serve on the Council-appointed applicants with wildlife-related management experience.

Forest and Wildland Advisory Committee. You should have a background in forestry, ecology, backcountry recreation or For more information on WBAC, go to https://www.whistler. resource management, and knowledge of the Whistler area. ca/municipal-gov/committees/whistler-bear-advisorygroup Please submit a short information sheet describing your qualifications before pm, November 19. your skill set Please send a one page4:30 written letter describing and reasons for applying to hberesford@whistler.ca by 4:30 Applications may16,be emailed to hberesford@whistler.ca p.m., November 2017.

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Regional District (SLRD) has a new hand leading its staff.

Melany Helmer assumed the role of chief administrative officer (CAO) on Sept.

8 after having served in the same position at three different municipalities: most recently, the District of Fort St. James, the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako and the Village of Cache Creek before that.

Pique caught up with Helmer to talk about her priorities for the diverse district, which stretches from Lions Bay in the south to past Lillooet in the north, how she has settled into the role in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the experience she’s garnered from her other CAO positions.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

PIQUE: What appealed to you most about this opportunity with the SLRD? MELANY HELMER: I really like regional district work because it’s collaborative and it’s very broad-based. We’re looking at the best interests of everybody across a large area and that can be quite interesting to bring people [together] that are quite diverse.

We look at ‘What’s the best we can do for the region as a whole, bringing those strengths and those challenges together?’

That’s always exciting.

In this particular regional district, there’s a lot happening that is quite exciting.

It’s a very collaborative approach by the board members. I was quite impressed by how they worked together at furthering the interests of the region.

PIQUE: How have the first couple months gone? What have been some of your priorities?

MH: First of all, getting our team fully staffed.

There were key positions that were vacant, some of which are still vacant … We are filling those specific vacancies as quickly as we can, but making sure we have the right people to do the job.

There are quite a lot of projects that are happening at this time as well. In particular, the COVID situation has been affecting all of us and that’s no different for the SquamishLillooet Regional District.

We’ve been working through that, doing what we can to support the public by opening the office for limited services to support those needs and providing other opportunities that don’t require in-person attendance so members of the public still have an opportunity to provide their input and seek our services.

PIQUE: What was it like moving across the province during a pandemic?

MH: It’s something I’ve never experienced

before, for sure. The new job is really exciting and moving to a new community and starting a new job can always be a challenge but now it’s completely different. We’re working remotely a majority of the time with only a small core team at the office.

Connecting with new board members, new staff, new members of the public … we’re now no longer sitting down in a room together. But despite that, I think everyone in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District is resilient and is able to face having to do things by Zoom or by telephone.

PIQUE: One of your major accomplishments with the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako was on the transit front, implementing Highway 16 Transit Service. Regional transit is a big priority in the SLRD. Can you draw on the experience and provide a different perspective to help move that project forward?

MH: We’ve had conversations about transit and it was one of the priorities that the board was advocating for at the [Union of British Columbia Municipalities Convention] recently. That will continue to be an important priority for providing members of the public with some ability to travel by public transit in a reliable way moving from place to place, increasing what services are currently available and connecting with other providers. There are some other services that operate and provide transportation services in the SquamishLillooet Regional District and between our regional district and our neighbouring regional district [Metro Vancouver Regional District], so we’re looking at what are those linkages and what are the gaps. How can we provide that improvement to public transit in a way that’s affordable?

PIQUE: How did the experience of serving as the emergency operations centre director during the 2018 wildfires shape how you’re reacting to the COVID-19 situation?

MH: The 2018 wildfire situation was very intense and it affected the whole province, certainly, but in our regional district in Bulkley-Nechako, there were over 60 different orders and alerts that went through, so there were a lot of different activities that went through in a short timeframe.

The COVID situation is more of a marathon. We’ve seen this going on since the spring. We’re still in it. We don’t see the end yet. There is a difference there in the sense that we have to pace ourselves. We have to plan our work according to a very long duration.

We don’t have the ability to say that rain and snow in the fall are going to help with that and it’ll be over.

What happens through emergency events is we build connections with each other. We reach out to one another to meet the needs of the public because we each have a role to fill. ■

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2020 – 4:00 P.M. This Public Hearing will be held electronically pursuant to Local Government Meetings and Bylaw Process (COVID-19) Order No. 3 (Ministerial Order M192/2020).

If the Government of British Columbia lifts the Provincial State of Emergency currently in place before November 17, 2020, this Public Hearing will be held at the following location: MAURY YOUNG ARTS CENTRE Franz Wilhelmsen Theatre, 4335 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, BC ZONING AMENDMENT BYLAW (RETAINING WALLS) NO. 2033, 2020 SUBJECT LANDS: Zoning Amendment Bylaw (Retaining Walls) No. 2033, 2020 (the “Proposed Bylaw”) affects all lands within all zones regulated under the Resort Municipality of Whistler Zoning and Parking Bylaw No. 303, 2015.

PURPOSE: In general terms, the purpose of the Proposed Bylaw is to amend the regulations regarding the size and location of landscape features and retaining walls.

INSPECTION OF DOCUMENTS: A copy of the proposed Bylaw and relevant background documentation along with written submissions received may be inspected at the Reception Desk of Municipal Hall at 4325 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, BC, during regular office hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday (statutory holidays excluded) from November 5, 2020 to and including November 16, 2020, and on November 17, 2020 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (the start time for the Public Hearing).

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A copy of the Proposed Bylaw and relevant background documentation along with written submissions received may also be viewed online on the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) website at: whistler.ca/RZ001065 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the Proposed Bylaw will be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard by Council at the Public Hearing. All persons can: 1) submit written comments to Council; and/or 2) make oral representations LIVE via online video or phone conferencing. (Your image will not be broadcast to Council or the public.)

1. Submit Written Comments to Council Written comments must be addressed to “Mayor and Council”, and include your name and mailing address. Until 2:00 p.m. on November 17, 2020, written submissions will be received at the following: Email: Fax: Hard Copy:

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Written submissions will also be accepted on November 17, 2020 between 2:00 p.m. and the time when the motion to close the Public Hearing is made. During this timeframe, written comments must be submitted by email to: corporate@whistler.ca All submissions will form part of the Public Hearing record and will be added to the Public Hearing Package as they are received. The Public Hearing Package will be available on the RMOW website at: whistler.ca/RZ001065

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What do we lose when the caribou disappear?

ONE CARIBOU HERD in Jasper National Park is gone. The two remaining are on the brink. Regrettably, the story is not particularly new; almost every caribou herd in Canada has been assessed as being at risk of extinction, and too little is being done to save them.

Last year in British Columbia, two caribou herds—the South Selkirk and South Purcell—died out. Caribou along Lake Superior’s north shore are clinging to survival, dislocated from their relatives further north by extensive habitat fragmentation that requires aggressive restoration. Even though Jasper National

BY DAVID SUZUKI Park is a protected area, past poor wildlife and access management and disturbed surrounding landscapes have made survival difficult for caribou there.

Backcountry trails and lodgings are still open from mid-February to mid-October in high-quality caribou habitat of one of the remaining herds.

What do we lose when a population or species becomes extirpated; that is, locally extinct?

Most scientists would argue there’s no absolute answer. Nature is too complex and species too interdependent for us to comprehend how the loss of a particular plant or animal species will affect the ecosystems of which it is a part.

Species extinguishment is not merely an ecological loss, though. Many people are

extirpations. Local hog farmer Jim Ross told the Narwhal, “It just saddens the hell out of me. I have two daughters who are 19 and 21 and they’re never going to see a caribou. It’s just not going to happen for them unless they see it in an enclosure.”

Wildlife biologist Leo DeGroot echoed that sentiment: “It’s sad to see these animals go. It’s such an iconic animal. They’ve been on this landscape for thousands and thousands of years. Due to human influences largely, they’re gone now.”

The loss of caribou herds is deeply felt by many Indigenous Peoples whose ways of life and sustenance have been connected to caribou for millennia. When the caribou they have lived in relation with for generations no longer show up for seasonal rounds, many people have articulated an intense loneliness. Elders from Doig River and West Moberly First Nations have expressed a longing to eat caribou once again before they die.

Chief Patricia Tangie of the Michipicoten First Nation in Ontario has fought hard for the survival of caribou on Lake Superior’s shores. When they were almost wiped out in 2017, she led efforts for a relocation initiative. As Michipicoten lands and resources consultation co-ordinator Leo Lepiano said, “We’ve arrived at a time when the rest of the animals on the planet need our help to survive. These are animals that have helped the Ojibwe people survive in the past.”

Unwillingness to change the status quo is the biggest barrier to caribou recovery.

Extirpation can also turn into a perverse incentive for industrial and commercial operations that degrade critical habitat. Once

“ ... a deep connection to other animals has a special power to deliver us from our isolation, both as individuals and as a species.”

- RICHARD LOUV

grieving the vast biodiversity decline the planet is facing. It’s now widely accepted that exposure to nature is good for mental health, but the opposite is also true. When we turn away from the wondrous world not shaped by human hands and decrease our connection to other living things, we can be struck by profound loneliness. Indeed, preCOVID, many social scientists described loneliness as an emergent pandemic.

Recent studies show that one in five people in Canada identifies as lonely.

In Our Wild Calling: How Connecting with Animals Can Transform Our Lives — and Save Theirs, author Richard Louv writes, “While green spaces can bring joy and reduce stress, a deep connection to other animals has a special power to deliver us from our isolation, both as individuals and as a species.”

A sense of bereavement was clear in media interviews following B.C. caribou

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caribou are gone, so too are requirements to protect and restore their habitat.

Caribou, like most species, can be bred in captivity, and populations can be augmented, but there is little value in doing so without adequate habitat to support their life cycles. Significant efforts are needed to restore habitat where it has been lost.

We must cherish our present relationships with nature and hold space for future connection by fighting for wildlife survival. One way to do this is to support recovery measures, including maintaining and restoring habitat, for highly imperilled caribou populations—before it’s too late.

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Boreal Project Manager Rachel Plotkin.

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What Next?

AS I WRITE, the meltdown democracy previously known as the United States of America is threatening to erupt back into a civil war that actually never ended—just went underground like a herpes virus in the body politic waiting to spring back to life at

BY LESLIE ANTHONY the requisite amount of societal stress.

That stress has a name, a serious mental affliction, and an absurd hairdo. The world could be well and truly hooped by the time you read this, or things could actually be looking up.

They were certainly looking up-ish after the recent B.C. “unnecelection,” in which the Sea to Sky region may have gained its long-awaited Green MLA. But whether this pans out or the troubled waters of the U.S. calm enough for anyone to navigate, one thing’s clear: humanity faces a raft of ongoing problems, all of which require a complete upending of convention to solve.

Yes, I’m referring to the umbrella issues of climate change, biodiversity loss, etc.

Sure, a global pandemic is hogging the spotlight, but it’s intimately related to the extent that if we want to avert another we need to start tackling these other issues stat.

Although this cause-and-effect relationship was abundantly clear early in

GREEN GOALS Before the pandemic, scientists

warned that deforestation was likely to create conditions for the outbreak of zoonotic diseases.

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the pandemic, as the death toll mounted, it was pushed from the news cycle. But last week came a reminder.

The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) —a global group of academic, government, and non-profit scientists— released a report stating that the same forces driving extinction, habitat loss, and climate change will lead to future pandemics.

“Without preventative strategies,” it reads, “pandemics will emerge more often, spread more rapidly, kill more people, and affect the global economy with more devastating impact than ever before.”

Conclusion? Protecting land and animals will mitigate future pandemics. Given the extent of the current COVID headache, we might want to fill this prescription.

Zoonotic diseases—e.g. SARS, HIV, influenza, Ebola, Zika—occur when microbes jump from wildlife to humans.

Scientists estimate half of a possible 1.7 million undiscovered viruses in common transmission sources like bats, birds, primates and rodents may have the ability to infect people. So it’s no coincidence, says IPBES, that pandemics have increased as human activities stress the environment and steer us into closer contact with wildlife.

But of course, we’ve been here before.

In November 2019, pre-COVID, scientists sounded the alarm that deforestation was creating more favourable conditions for outbreaks of zoonotic disease. Then, in February 2020, delegates from 140 countries gathered in Rome, Italy, to discuss key documents in the lead-up to the 15th meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) scheduled for a future date in Kunming, China.

The Kunming meeting will represent the largest global biodiversity gathering in a decade—a period of serial disappointments on the wildlife front. As a result, expectations to agree to targets beforehand were high.

The first step was a “zero draft” that featured five long-term goals for 2050 and intermediary targets to halt and reverse biodiversity loss by 2030, including ambitious proposals to protect fully a third of the world’s oceans and land.

But the Rome proceedings were auspicious. As delegates spun spaghetti in the capital, Italy’s north struggled to contain an outbreak of COVID-19 that would soon prove devastating. With a direct link between environmental breakdown and zoonotic disease laid bare by COVID’s suspected origin in a wildlife market in Wuhan, China, dialogue on the zero draft was suffused with added urgency. But it ultimately begged a much larger question: would we finally take the destruction of nature more seriously in the wake of such a devastating global consequence?

No less an environmental luminary than Jane Goodall opined that humanity “was finished” if we failed, post-COVID-19, to adapt human food systems away from over-exploitation. Currently, the prospects look bleak.

Having already rolled back 100 environmental regulations, the Trump administration used the cover of the pandemic and weeks of civil unrest to remove longstanding protections for birds and eliminate 85 per cent of marine protected areas. In Canada, conservative governments in Alberta and Ontario suspended environmental compliance and reporting for industry.

Elsewhere, as employment was lost to COVID shutdowns, wildlife poaching skyrocketed and forests were illegally levelled with impunity. This grim track record mirrors our response to other large-scale existential threats. In the same way catastrophic climate events haven’t been able to galvanize action on reducing atmospheric carbon, the spectre of soaring biodiversity loss has failed—to borrow an all-too-familiar metaphor—to flatten that curve either.

In April, the CBD’s acting executive secretary, Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, reflected on the growing body of literature showing how large-scale deforestation, habitat degradation, agriculture intensification, wildlife trade, and climate change combine to drive both biodiversity loss and new disease.

“Two-thirds of emerging diseases now come from wildlife,” she noted. “Countries must ban markets that sell wildlife for human consumption while ensuring critical food sources for otherwise dependent communities.”

So… what next? There’s an old adage that you shouldn’t judge a civilization on its wealth, but on how it treats its working class. The natural world offers a parallel: despite contributing a yeoman’s share to all human progress, we continue to exploit it mercilessly. Nature raises no voice in defence, yet when it convulses—as with COVID—we suffer its silent outcry.

Regardless of our politics, it’s time we all started thinking differently.

Leslie Anthony is a science/environment writer and author who holds a doctorate in reversing political spin. ■

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How Canada weathered a deadly influenza at the height of the First World War

By Brandon Barrett

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n a letter dated July 21, 1918, Private William James Stares of Kingston’s 21st Battalion writes home to family while recuperating in an Allied British hospital. But it wasn’t a wound suffered on the battlefield that has Stares laid up in the small coastal town of Seaford—it was a debilitating flu that seemed to have only grown in scope and severity over the preceding months.

“I have been in Hospital, suffering with the latest epidemic, The ‘Spanish Flu,’ not a very nice thing to have,” he wrote.

“Severe Headache, partial loss of legs, aches and pains all over, and feverish. For one week I just gazed at the ceiling, counting the flies, working out imaginary patterns on the paintwork, going through some of the Battles again, (in my mind) killing Germans by the thousands. The lad in the next bed thought it safer underneath the bed. (Suppose I was delirious.) I had to laugh when he told me about it.”

Stares was just one of the tens of thousands of Canadians, and millions around the globe, who contracted the so-called Spanish flu at the tail end of an already devastating war that had totally consumed the public’s attention. In all, the flu would claim an estimated 50,000 Canadians, numbers that were comparable, mathematically at least, to the more than 60,000 troops who died in combat.

And despite Stares’ sense of humour on the matter, it’s difficult to overstate what it must have felt like for the scores of soldiers who had just spent years of their prime fighting in this treacherous, unspeakable war only to return home to battle a much less tangible foe.

At least on the battlefield, you knew who your enemy was. Amidst all the chaos and confusion, there is also a certain simplicity to war, especially a century ago. Your duties are laid out for you in meticulous fashion. Your purpose is clear: survival.

But a glorified cold? That was a harder thing to wrap your head around.

“I think there was probably confusion and a lot of fear, because the Spanish flu is invisible until its taken hold of your lungs,” explained Dr. Lorne Hammond, history curator at the Royal Museum of B.C. “All the communities knew was there were these very disturbing stories in the

newspaper—but how does that connect to where you live?” posted and the telegrams were delivered back to the families Coined the “Spanish flu” because neutral Spain was informing them of a loved one killed or lost. Canadians, I the first country to cover the epidemic (journalists on think, were more attuned to this mass death already.” both sides of the fight were discouraged from reporting on Canadians’ response to the health crisis was also impacted anything that could give their adversaries an advantage), by the much slower stream of information 100 years ago. The the epidemic went largely unnoticed by the public when first live transmission of a televised face wouldn’t happen until it first reached Canadian soil in the summer of 1918. By 1926, and radio was still a few years away from widespread the time the second wave hit in the fall, thousands had adoption, so the public relied on scant newspaper reports and died, devastating a domestic war effort that had already been hampered by half a decade of conflict. Food and fuel were in short supply. Women manned factories that were working 24/7 to supply troops overseas.

And yet, with more than 40,000 killed in combat and another 100,000 wounded at that point, the flu failed to make much of a lasting mark on the 8 million or so Canadians that remained at home.

“It was definitely seen as a health crisis, and that’s very clear from all the accounts. I think what’s a little hard to figure out is: why didn’t it resonate more? Why didn’t we document this more?” asked Dr. Tim Cook, director of research at the Canadian War Museum and author of 13 books. “Some of the impact and grief, I think, was lessened by the war. For individuals, if you lost your mother or your daughter or your uncle to the flu, there was no less grief there. But as Canadian soldiers returning from Vimy Ridge a society, Canadians had been used to grief. For four long years, WILLIAM IVOR CASTLE. CANADA. DEPT. OF NATIONAL DEFENCE. LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA, the terrible casualty lists were

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worrisome anecdotes from overseas.

Even government officials struggled initially to grasp the extent of the flu’s devastation.

“It wasn’t until somewhere around 1922 or ’23 that the government starts seeing proper numbers, in part because when influenza hit an Indigenous community on a reserve, that’s federal land and those numbers are travelling a different way to Ottawa,” explained Hammond. “So they didn’t really know what impact the influenza was having in Indigenous communities other than what they were hearing on the ground.”

Hastened by the return of ill soldiers crammed into massive troop ships that must have resembled “the plague ships of old,” remarked Cook, the flu spread primarily from east to west, as veterans made their way, by train, from Canada’s Halifax port back to their hometowns.

“The newspapers of the day make note of this. In fact, it’s quite chilling,” Hammond said. “They could track

it almost on a daily rate. I think that’s a really chilling parallel to today when have more sophisticated means of tracking, but they could see it and it was the movement along the trains.”

It also proved next to impossible to contain returning troops’ desire to blow off some steam in the euphoric days following the Armistice of 1919 that marked the end of one of the deadliest conflicts in human history.

“From 1918 and 1919, often when we talk about Remembrance Day, we talk about wild celebrations in the streets with cheering and parties,” said Cook. “As we know, by the end of the war and in the immediate postwar years, there were 66,000 Canadians killed in battle, and yet there doesn’t appear to have been any social isolation on Nov. 11th itself—although there was before that in Canada.”

In fact, many of the measures we have seen for COVID-19 were already in place by late 1918, depending on the jurisdiction: schools, businesses and churches were closed, and mask-wearing was encouraged—although, similar to today, those protocols were not without their detractors.

“Without a doubt, the wearing of masks was very episodic. In some cities, there were regulations that people had to wear them in public, but it seemed to be fairly haphazard,” Cook said. “I don’t think there was the same understanding of some of the social medical measures we have today, nor was it as easy to communicate that.”

Public health officials of the time also didn’t have the authority they do today—a far cry from the reverence officials like B.C.’s Dr. Bonnie Henry enjoy in 2020.

But, in the wake of the war and the accompanying health crisis, Canadians knew change was long overdue, and you can draw a straight line from the Spanish flu to today’s handling of COVID-19, thanks to the creation, in 1919, of a federal health department.

“It was acknowledged at the time that the Canadian response to this health crisis had not been uniform and a federal department would be more useful,” Cook

explained. “Now it wasn’t the only reason the department was established, but it’s one of those important legacies.”

So, what legacy will emerge from our current COVID crisis? If there is a constant that comes from times of such widespread upheaval, it’s the recognition of the need for landmark, structural change.

“A major event like this leads to fundamental societal changes. What’s interesting about 1919 is that it’s of course wrapped up in the war, and the war seems to have quite clearly had a much more lasting legacy,” reflected Cook.

“If after the Great War we built thousands of memorials around the country, what will we do in 2021 or 2022 when we’re on the other side of this pandemic? Will there be a new round of building memorials? I don’t know. We didn’t do that in 1919 and I think that’s partially allowed us to forget about this traumatic event.”

Marking Remembrance Day in the Sea to Sky Whistler will be hosting its first-ever virtual Remembrance Day ceremony on Nov. 11.

Although the ceremony is closed to the public, it can be live-streamed for free at whistler.ca/remembranceday.

“Remembrance Day carries deep, deep meaning to our community,” said Mayor Jack Crompton. “I will miss the chance to thank our local veterans for their service and I will miss standing with our whole community to remember the horror of war and the sacrifices made by so many.”

Community members are invited to show their support by placing a poppy in their window and observing two minutes of silence at 11 a.m. wherever they are.

The ceremony will be marked by a flyover courtesy of Blackcomb Helicopters.

Those wishing to have a wreath placed at the Whistler Cenotaph are asked to contact event organizer Steve LeClair at steve.leclair@shaw.ca. Wreaths can be purchased from the Squamish Legion.

The Royal Canadian Legion Pemberton Branch will be live-streaming its own ceremony through its Facebook and other social media channels. Executive members of the legion will also privately lay wreaths at the Pemberton and Mount Currie cemeteries to mark the graves of veterans.

“We are enormously proud of our military family and Remembrance Day is very important, giving us all a chance to reflect, remember and honour those who have lost their lives,” said Pemberton Legion president Lesley Clark in a statement. “While we cannot all be together, we can still remember all those who gave so much and I’d invite you all to watch our Remembrance Service online and take part in the two-minute silence at 11 a.m. If you do choose to visit the memorial at Pemberton Legion, we’d ask that you try and visit at different times of the day in order to help protect the most vulnerable amongst us.” n

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Local alpine athletes primed for World Cup campaign NEXT GENERATION OFFICIALLY TAKES OVER AFTER OSBORNE-PARADIS’ RETIREMENT

BY DAN FALLOON THOUGH MANNY Osborne-Paradis wasn’t around the Alpine Canada men’s speed team much as he recovered from injury in recent years, the veteran’s recent retirement made it clear that the torch has been passed to the next generation.

Several Whistler Mountain Ski Club (WMSC) alums will be leading the way, as Cameron Alexander, Jack Crawford, Brodie Seger and Broderick Thompson will all look to take the next step on the FIS World Cup circuit this season.

At 26 years old and with 37 World Cup starts and a Winter Olympics under his belt, Broderick Thompson will take over as the squad’s elder statesman. However, Thompson suffered a serious knee injury while training for the 2018-19 season and hasn’t lined up in a World Cup start gate since March of 2018.

Thompson feels like he’s back to where he was prior to crash and feels like he’s in a place to bounce back when the men’s speed season kicks off with the downhill at Val d’Isere, France on Dec. 12.

“I’m feeling pretty good, normal after my injury,” he said. “It’ll be different starting in Europe, but it’ll be good for us starting on the road and continuing to build as the season progresses.”

SPEEDY SEGER Brodie Seger and the rest of Alpine Canada’s men’s speed team will look to make a mark during the 2020-21 season.

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Having been injured mere days before Osborne-Paradis, Thompson is less used to the prospect of a Manny-less team than some of his teammates.

“It’s a different vibe, but it’s good to have a young, strong, enthusiastic group,” he said. “Me being the oldest now is something I can work with.”

The team recently enjoyed excellent weather conditions at seven-week preseason

After returning from Switzerland, athletes quarantined at an Anderson Lake cabin provided by Joey Gibbons.

Subsequently, the racers headed back to their old WMSC stomping grounds to train.

Seger said the club regularly welcomes back its past athletes with open arms, but it was especially helpful after Alpine Canada opted against returning to its Canadian Sport Institute headquarters in Calgary.

“We had a lot of races last year where we had one guy punch into the top 30 and just about every single one of us has done it once.

But we’ve never had more than one guy in the top 30. ” - BRODIE SEGER

camp at Saas Fee, Switzerland, and after quarantining and a rest period, headed east on Nov. 1 for a month of training, two weeks each at Nakiska and Panorama, before heading overseas for the season.

“We had some really great training sessions [at Saas Fee]. We got quite a bit of speed training compared to our previous preseasons, which was really cool to see because I think that was a big concern coming into this year,” Seger said.

“They’re making sure we have a good place to get our work done because it’s not always so easy to find a gym,” he said. “For the majority of our group, it’s like working from home.”

Normally, the speed athletes would get to start the season at home at Lake Louise, but because of the pandemic, FIS opted to contain the campaign to Europe. Even then, the racers are ensuring they’re ready for anything.

“There’s just a lot of uncertainty around the schedule,” Alexander said. “Even with the World Cup, they have a schedule, but you don’t know if they’re going to change it.

“You just have to be ready for the unexpected like anybody, really.”

Alexander, whose last World Cup race saw him posting his first top-10 result, a 10th-place showing at Kvitfjell, Norway, in March, anticipates handling the extended trip just fine.

“Once you get past a month or so, you get into a rhythm and it all starts to fly by a little bit quicker than you think,” he said. “It definitely will be the longest trip away from home I’ve had so far, but I think I’ll be able to manage.”

Seger, who has six career top-30 finishes in 29 starts, feels like he’s ready to break that threshold with more regularity.

“I’ve seen that I clearly have the speed to be in the top 15 and I just need to work on developing my consistency so that I can move my way up the ranks and get into the top 30 on the World Cup start list,” he said.

“Then I have a much better opportunity to be in there any day.

“I’d say that for us all as a group, that’s a similar theme developing. We had a lot of races last year where we had one guy punch into the top 30 and just about every single one of us has done it once.

But we’ve never had more than one guy in the top 30.

“We’re skiing at way too high of a level to not be starting in the top 30,” Seger added. “We’re all too hungry and want to show what we can do.” n

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Multiple projects are currently in development to help formalize the activity and create some additional opportunities for riders.

To start, the Professional Mountain Bike Instructors Association (PMBIA) has worked with Whistler Adaptive to create an adaptive training module in order to help round coaches into form.

PMBIA technical director Paul Howard said the project has been in development for roughly two years and saw its first tangible results with a recent course with Whistler Adaptive and Kootenay Adaptive Sports Association representatives.

“We’ve been talking to Whistler Adaptive for a while and they’ve been really good in helping us develop the module,” he said. “What we’ve essentially done is we’ve taken the core concepts of the PMBIA methodologies and just adapted them to adaptive bikes and adaptive students.”

Howard added that a major part of developing the lesson plan came from observing Whistler Adaptive’s operations.

“We were looking at how they taught and how students responded to different lessons or different parts of guiding,” he said. “That was an essential part of the process—getting out there and spending time with adaptive riders and spending time with the coaches.”

After the first session in Lost Lake Park, Howard is eager for participants to provide feedback and ideas to help develop content in order to improve the module.

Whistler Adaptive executive director Chelsey Walker is thrilled with the partnership, noting that a memorandum of understanding between the two groups to develop Whister Adaptive’s coaches is forthcoming.

“The PMBIA reached out to us last and looked to partner and take this past 10 years of mountain bike development we’ve worked on,” she said. “By using an existing format that is so well regarded in the industry like the PMBIA certification pathway, it allows us to work together and use the same training certification pathway.”

Howard explained that the major differences between the newly developed content and previous PMBIA instruction revolves around adaptive equipment and how to lead riders who have different abilities.

The module currently focuses on three-wheeled bikes for paraplegic and

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THREE-WHEELING A participant tries an adaptive

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quadriplegic riders, but there are hopes to reach out across the spectrum of abilities to include those with cognitive, visual or other physical challenges.

“It helps to keep it simple so everyone’s not overwhelmed,” Howard said. “We’re starting there, we’ll see how it goes and we can build on that in the future.”

Pandemic pending, Howard said plans are in the works to hold the one-day course in Whistler on a few occasions in the spring while other offerings beyond Whistler are possible as well. The PMBIA is also working to develop an online version of the module.

In the longer term, Walker said there are hopes to create a unified national group to promote and advocate for adaptive mountain biking that could have a hand in everything from trail building and design to holding competitions. There are hopes to formalize the association within the next year.

“It’s a way for us all to work together under a single voice instead of every group trying to advocate on their own. It also helps provide some leadership for adaptive mountain biking,” she said, noting the organization would help set standards as well.

Heading into winter, Walker explained that the organization is developing its return-to-sport plan to submit to stakeholders such as Whistler Blackcomb and Whistler Olympic Park.

“What’s going to be different this year is we’ll be offering alpine programs in more of a club or freeride format,” she said, noting that venues including WB have been supportive of the club’s programming this winter. “It’ll be even more focused on locals.

“It’ll be very similar to what was happening before.”

In order to support the organization’s programming, Whistler Brewing will release a red ale in the near future, with a portion of the proceeds going to Whistler Adaptive. n

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FORK IN THE ROAD

The apples of our eyes TAKING A SECOND LOOK AT A FIRST-CLASS LOCAL FRUIT APPLES, APPLES, APPLES. They’re everywhere this time of year, especially southern B.C., including Sea to Sky, so you don’t have to hit the Okanagan.

From West Van to Birken and beyond, you’ll find apple trees, babied and pampered, dwarfed and full-sized. And neglected old troopers that tug at your heartstrings—twisted and tortured, maybe 100 years old—still bearing fruit, in yards, orchards and ditches, where the goodness is

BY GLENDA BARTOSH yours for the taking, as gleaners well know.

Even Whistler has a tree or three. (Ask Feet Banks about them apples.)

Fresh juicy apples; dried apples; apple chips. Apples baked, boiled, canned and pied. My 92-year-old mom, who’s lived a long and happy life eating many an apple, recommends a dab of peanut butter on an apple slice.

If you’re of a certain age or from the prairies, you’ll smile at the memory of bobbing for apples (the apples were bobbing, hopefully not you!), and the singsong “Hallowe-e-en a-a-apples!” called out on doorsteps when, truth be told, we were hoping for candy, not apples at all. And

BIG ONES, SMALL ONES, SOME AS BIG AS YOUR HEAD Well, not quite that big, but lots of

uncommon apples come in such extraordinary sizes and flavours, they’re well worth the hunt.

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who’d ever want one now in their trick-ortreat bag?

Poor apples! They’re so common we take them for granted, not realizing what a rich and noble lineage they come from, and how good they are—for health, nutrition and pleasure—especially those heritage varieties.

We have some 7,500-plus kinds of apples on the planet, but most of us can name, maybe, six. McIntosh—the original big Mac—so ubiquitous in Ontario, where it was first grown by one John McIntosh, in 1811. Delicious apples from the States.

Spartans, created by R. C. Palmer in Summerland in the 1930s by crossing Macs and a pippin. Maybe Galas and Ambrosias, and the ever-green Granny Smith, a friendly apple from Australia, circa 1868.

But how about Grimes Golden, which could be a rockstar? Or the Hubbardson Nonsuch. Blacktwig. Buckingham (The Queen). Greening from Rhode Island, going back to 1650. The Gano. The Gennet Moyle. All poetic, and all apples grown in southwestern B.C. since the 1850s, and now sought after by many a heritage apple buff and association, including the Royal B.C. Museum, UBC’s Botanical Garden and Mike Roger of Willowcraft Farm near Birken.

Mike, who plants six apple trees a year, is known for helping out on older farms dating back to the 1950s and bringing heritage apples such as sweet Annanas; supertart Cox Orange Pippins; or humungous Boskopps (great for cooking) to Sea to Sky farmers’ markets.

“The heritage varieties are usually grafted onto full-sized trees, like, 30 feet [9.1 metres] tall and 25 feet [7.6 m] in diameter, so they’re

massive. They can give several hundreds of pounds of apples,” says Mike, who’s also known for making amazing apple juice—150 litres in a few hours—by running a gunny sack full of ground apples through a top-loading washing machine on “spin.” (The juice pours out the drain hose—how excellent is that?)

Recent commercial varieties, by contrast, are grafted onto semi-dwarf or dwarf rootstock so they’re easier to pick.

As for that noble apple lineage, cast your mind back 10, maybe, 12 thousand years, to the earliest proto-apples in Neolithic Britain and Europe—wizened little things, more like crabapples.

Wild apples spread like crazy, but what we think of as an apple today most likely came from the Caucasus Mountains of Asia Minor, near where 17th-century historians located the Garden of Eden. BTW, there’s no scientific evidence confirming it was an apple that tempted Eve. It was just (forbidden) fruit, possibly a fig or apricot.

We have Ancient Romans to thank for breeding apples for size and taste, although they don’t grow true from seed (ergo the above-mentioned grafting). Plato, for one, could name about two-dozen apples, and in ancient Assyria, apples were served at a wee gathering for 69,000-plus people hosted by the king. A thousand oxen were also on the menu.

Apples are a key ingredient in classical Arabic cooking. I love how Farouk MardamBey in Ziryab: Authentic Arab Cuisine points out that at the centre of every apple, we’ll find a five-pointed star, “the symbol of knowledge and power.”

As for an apple a day keeping the doctor away, it’s true. All the fibre in apples is

good for your gut, plus it helps you feel full. Several studies show that apples’ polyphenols help prevent heart disease and lower the risk of stroke, while the flavonoids and anti-oxidants could help fight cancer.

University of Michigan researchers, who concluded that apples’ only health benefit was an avoidance of prescription drugs, analyzed just how big that beneficial apple should be: At least 7 centimetres in diameter and 149 grams.

But an Italian study showed significant benefits in reducing heart disease and cholesterol when people ate two apples a day versus consuming the same amount of sugar and calories in apple drinks.

If all this makes you curious about branching out, ahem, and re-thinking apples, excellent. And if you’d like to branch out when the snow flies, and try some lovely homemade baking featuring all kinds of apples—maybe even from their own orchard in Naramata—head to Ian Gladstone and Joni Denroche’s cozy cafe at Cross-Country Connection in Lost Lake Passivhaus, just a short walk from Lot 5 in Whistler Village.

Joni’s taught me a great new trick: Simply wash, core, then slice your apples and freeze them. Use them, as is, for baking, or freeze them on a pan before bagging, so they don’t stick together. Voilà! A “supercool” snack straight from the freezer.

Glenda Bartosh is an award-winning journalist who tips her hat to everyone who helped with these apple tales, including my mom, Feet, Mike, Joni, Ian, Bob Deeks, Lisa Richardson, Pauline Wiebe, Cate Webster, Paul Burrows, and Bob Brett. Long live the apple buffs! ■

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Whistler photographer shoots Powder Magazine’s first nude cover—and one of its last issues GUY FATTAL SHARES THE STORY BEHIND THE EPIC IMAGE

BY ALYSSA NOEL WHISTLER PHOTOGRAPHER Guy Fattal will forever hold a unique honour.

He shot Powder Magazine’s first nude cover in the venerable publication’s 49-year run.

Sadly, it will also be its last with the magazine going on indefinite furlough on Nov. 20.

“To be able to get this cover, as unique as it is, kind of really makes me feel complete—or content,” Fattal says. “The thing I set out to achieve in this whole realm of outdoor skiing photography— then getting the news a few days later that Powder is shutting its doors—you really get stoked for the achievement. [Then] you find out it’s one of the final covers.”

The cover image—on the fall 2020 issue— features skier Connery Lundin in nothing but ski boots and sunglasses with his mouth agape slicing through the snow (with his bathing-suit bits strategically covered).

“A little behind-the-scenes of this is that I was skiing with a few professional athletes [at] Keefer Lake Lodge, a cat-ski operation in Interior B.C., not too far from Vernon,” Fattal says. “We were skiing for four days and, although the snow was good, we were

COVER STAR Guy Fattal holds up the Fall 2020 issue of Powder Magazine with his photo on the cover.

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hoping the sun would show itself.”

The sun never showed up, so on the last day of the trip, as temperatures began to warm up a little, creating a fog that limited where they could shoot, they thought, “Why not try something funny?”

“Connery Lundin has a bit of a thing for skiing naked,” Fattal adds. “His dream was to get a cover of himself skiing naked.”

He offered to strip down as a warm-up lap—with a jacket over his shoulders at the top of the run and a towel waiting at the

sequence where he’s decent and in focus?’”

He had one other image that worked.

“That was the photo that ended up landing the cover,” he says.

Powder Magazine isn’t the only publication that’s been impacted by the pandemic, though. Other magazines have cut back budgets, gone on furlough, or folded altogether.

For his part, Fattal says he has felt the impact.

“I can speak for myself only, but I

“The thing I set out to achieve in this whole realm of outdoor skiing photography— then getting the news a few days later that Powder is shutting its doors—you really get stoked for the achievement. [Then] you find out it’s one of the final covers.”

- GUY FATTAL

bottom to ward off hypothermia.

“As I got ready to shoot, he passed his jacket to the guide and made a few fun turns, a few little jumps down to me,” Fattal says. “We shot two different sequences where I would go down and he would come to me. I’m pretty sure we got it right away.”

He submitted one image to Powder Magazine’s director of photography Dave Reddick. “He wrote back to me and said, ‘Have you got any other images in this

definitely am [feeling it],” he says. “Most of my work comes in the wintertime—with winter basically wrapping up in mid-March.

I had a few guaranteed projects and photo shoots that [earlier this year] obviously got cancelled right away. That was a hit, but, personally, I’ve tried not to stress out too much right now.”

He is, however, noticing a lag in firmedup shoots for brands this winter. But he’s coming up with a yet-to-be revealed plan

for this unusual winter.

“I’m trying to take this time to invest in figuring out creative ways to create revenue and income, whether it be through my photography or through different avenues aside from photography,” Fattal adds. “I think there is a lot of potential with the way things have been forced to shift online even more than they were and how can I find the opportunity in that realm.”

While Fattal has spent many years as a photographer, originally from Israel, he only delved into the world of ski photography five or six years ago. He entered the Whistler photography scene with a bang in 2017 when he won the Deep Winter photo challenge (and that was following his win in 2015 at the King of Dolomites photo contest in Italy where he entered as a wildcard.)

His advice for burgeoning ski photographers in these challenging times is, essentially, to just keep up the hustle and make your goal your priority.

“It’s funny how it comes around; I somewhat have an opportunity to help and give advice,” he says. “I’d say understand if this is something you want and try and define some goals. Set some goals for yourself, whatever they are, and really turn that into one of the top priorities in your life and concentrate on it. And just keep trying, keep hustling—I really do believe in that word. Reach out to as many athletes as you can. Be a ‘yes’ man or woman. Take as much opportunity getting out there every day to try and create photography.”

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New compilation album picks up where Squamish Punk Fest left off COLLECTION OF SONGS AVAILABLE FOR STREAMING NOW

BY ALYSSA NOEL LIVE PUNK SHOWS are a different kind of concert experience.

The sweat, the flailing limbs, but mostly the electric energy that comes from so many amped-up people crammed into a room creates a vibe unlike any other.

Unfortunately all those thingsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that, in any other year, might be considered an attributeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;are a liability in 2020.

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just say that Paul Hudson knew pretty quickly that Squamish Punk Fest wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to happen on what was set to be its third year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d created such a good thing over the last two years, I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to just leave a blank slate,â&#x20AC;? says Hudson, who organizes the festival, as well as Squamish Punk Night, and plays in the band anonymericans. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I contacted all the bands [who were supposed to play this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s punk fest] and I asked them if they would be interested in contributing a song for a compilation in lieu of. Amazingly, just about every band got back to me and had a song to contribute.â&#x20AC;?

In fact, some were even written this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and three were completely unreleased. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With all of us in quarantine, a lot of

MAKING MUSIC Squamish Punk Night, The Compilation Vol. 1 is available to stream now.

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people have been writing and recording,â&#x20AC;?

Hudson says.

In the end, 18 bandsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;from Vancouver and the Sea to Skyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;have songs featured on Squamish Punk Night, The Compilation Vol. 1.

It was officially released in September

to coincide with when the festival wouldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been, but since then it has spread further than Hudson initially imagined it would. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The great thing is itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s helped us with getting the word out about putting on these types of events in Squamish because weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve

had people purchase the compilation from all over Canada, the States, the UK. So if people come to visit here [and] they happen to be in town when thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a show on, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll probably come check it out.â&#x20AC;?

On the musician end, he also hopes the added profile means bands might consider Squamish on their Western Canada toursâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; when thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a thing again. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been great for connecting with the community,â&#x20AC;? Hudson says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It always blows my mind how many punk bands are out there.â&#x20AC;?

But one other aspect of the scene will look a little different when shows finally return. One of many business victims of the pandemic was The Knotty Burl, where the festivalâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and Squamish Punk Nightâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;has taken place the last two years.

Hudson is hopeful, though, that the space could host live music again in the future. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unfortunate about The Knotty Burl, but the good news is the bar is still there,â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The silver lining for Squamish is the venue was known to be a space where really good shows have happenedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and will continue to happen.â&#x20AC;?

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This Public Hearing will be held electronically pursuant to Local Government Meetings and Bylaw Process (COVID-19) Order No. 3 (Ministerial Order M192/2020).

If the Government of British Columbia lifts the Provincial State of Emergency currently in place before November 17, 2020, this Public Hearing will be held at the following location: MAURY YOUNG ARTS CENTRE Franz Wilhelmsen Theatre, 4335 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, BC ZONING AMENDMENT BYLAW (8104 MCKEEVERS PLACE) NO. 2292, 2020 SUBJECT LANDS: The parcel that is the subject of the proposed Bylaw is 8104 McKeevers Place, Whistler, described as Lot 2 District Lot 7300 Plan LMP99. The parcel is identified as “subject property” on the map attached to this notice.

PURPOSE: In general terms, the purpose of the proposed Bylaw is to amend the CL2 Zone by adding “restaurant” to the Permitted Uses and maintaining part of the commercial gross floor area (GFA) for convenience retail of everyday items.

INSPECTION OF DOCUMENTS: A copy of the proposed Bylaw and relevant background documentation along with written submissions received may be inspected at the Reception Desk of Municipal Hall at 4325 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, BC, during regular office hours of 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday (statutory holidays excluded) from November 5, 2020 to and including November 16, 2020, and on November 17, 2020 from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. (the start time for the Public Hearing).

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1. Submit Written Comments to Council Written comments must be addressed to “Mayor and Council”, and include your name and mailing address.

Until 2:00 p.m. on November 17, 2020, written submissions will be received at the following: Email: corporate@whistler.ca Fax: 604-935-8109 Hard Copy: Resort Municipality of Whistler Legislative Services Department 4325 Blackcomb Way, Whistler BC V8E 0X5 Written submissions will also be accepted on November 17, 2020 between 2:00 p.m. and the time when the motion to close the Public Hearing is made. During this timeframe, written comments must be submitted by email to: corporate@ whistler.ca All submissions will form part of the Public Hearing record and will be added to the Public Hearing Package as they are received. The Public Hearing Package will be available on the RMOW website at: whistler.ca/RZ001094 2. Participate LIVE via Online Video or Phone Conferencing The live Public Hearing will take place November 17, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. via online video and phone conferencing. The Public Hearing will be conducted using Zoom and can be accessed via either online video or phone conferencing. No registration is required.

If you wish to make oral representations to Council on the proposed Bylaw by online video or by phone, please use the Public Hearing web link or one of the phone numbers (including Webinar ID) provided below.

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IN SEPTEMBER, Whistler Museum posted a series of photos on social media picturing some of the activity taking place on Blackcomb Mountain as they prepared to open for their first season in December 1980.

One comment made on the photos made clear that their first season wasn’t necessarily all that Blackcomb had hoped it would be, pointing out “it didn’t snow.”

Unfortunately for Whistler and Blackcomb mountains, this was true for most of the early winter season.

The 1980-81 season didn’t start out too badly. On Dec. 4, when Pat Carleton cut the ribbon on Lift 2 with a chainsaw, there was snow in the valley and the weather looked promising.

All four of the new triple chairs to reach the top of Blackcomb were operating and skiers were able to end their day with a piece of the five-metre cake and draw prizes.

According to Hugh Smythe, the mountain enjoyed “phenomenal skiing for three weeks” and then it started to rain.

The Whistler Question reported that it began raining in the region on Dec. 24, 1980, and it was still raining towards the end of January 1981. Sections of the highway between Whistler and Squamish were washed out by heavy rains twice in that period, first on Dec. 26 and again on Jan. 21, cutting Whistler and Pemberton off from the Lower Mainland except by train or helicopter.

Within Whistler, Alpine Meadows was cut off from the rest of the town when 19 Mile Creek flooded its banks. All this rain

might not have been too terrible for the ski season, except that the rain was accompanied by unseasonably warm temperatures (at one point in January, the temperature in Whistler was recorded as 5 C).

On Jan. 8, 1981, The Question editorial stated, “As you look out of the window on Jan. 6 it looks more like May 6 with little or no snow in the valley and only a minimum coverage above 4,500 ft.”

The holiday season, usually one of the busiest times of year in Whistler, saw only 20 per cent of its usual volume. Blackcomb employees delivered newsletters throughout the subdivisions in the valley to let people know that Blackcomb Mountain was open for skiing but bad press coverage of the weather did not encourage skiers to visit.

Whistler Mountain was able to continue operating (or, some might say “limped along”) through January, but Blackcomb shut down operations and laid off staff temporarily because there was not enough snow to get skiers up to Lift 4 and Lift 3 was not designed for downloading.

Blackcomb tried grooming the runs on Lift 4 and moving snow onto the road that led to the top of Lift 2, enabling skiers to ski down to the bottom of Lift 3 before downloading.

They even borrowed snow-making equipment from Grouse Mountain, which reportedly did not open at all that season, but the warm temperatures made it impossible to keep or make enough snow.

Blackcomb Mountain was able to reopen later in the season and by March, there was consistently snow on the mountains.

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1 GREAT LAKE CLEAN-UP Roger McCarthy and Henry Wang pose with a sailboat recovered from Alta Lake on Oct. 8, during one of two lake clean-ups that took place in Whistler this fall. Whistler’s Great Lake Clean-Up usually takes place in the summer, but the ongoing pandemic delayed the tradition until last month, when members of Divers for Cleaner Lakes and Oceans made their eighth annual plunge into Whistler’s lakes. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 2 SAR SUPERHEROES The Whistler Search and Rescue (WSAR) team waves their thanks to their supporters following the crew’s 21st annual “Wine’d Up” Gourmet Dinner & Auction Fundraiser. The fundraiser went virtual this year, with more than 115 guests joining the festivities from their homes and enjoying a three-course meal prepared by Araxi, Il Caminetto, and The Fairmont Chateau Whistler and personally delivered to guests by WSAR volunteers on Oct. 24. This year’s event managed to raise $60,000 to support WSAR’s training, equipment, and rescue operations. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 3 HEALTH CARE CENTRE HALLOWEEN Frontline workers at the Whistler Health Care Centre were replaced by a team of minions and fighter jet pilots on Halloween. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 4 SPOOKY SCAVENGER HUNT Families dropped by Franz’s Stroll Saturday morning to celebrate Halloween a spooky scavenger hunt and fun prizes, organized by Creekside Village. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 5 TERRA’S BIG BIRTHDAY A very special four-legged Whistler resident named Terra recently turned 18 years old! “Being officially old enough to vote, drink alcohol, and move out, the plucky poodle schnauzer cross (or small white dog) looks forward to doing none of those things and currently remains happy with walking, sleeping, and getting treats,” her humans told Pique in an email. Happy birthday, Terra! PHOTO SUBMITTED. 6 OH HENRY B.C. provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry (A.K.A. Whistler’s Lindsey Ataya) stopped by Whistler to ensure all trick-or-treating on Saturday, Oct. 31 adhered to COVID-19 safety protocols. (Rumour has it her sign language interpreter Nigel Howard was nearby as well!) PHOTO SUBMITTED. 7 RAINBOW HOLLOW The Rainbow community got creative with two forest walks for Halloween night: a ‘Sleepy Hollow’ that saw fairies and gnome villages (including a thoughtful Pique reader pictured here), and followed by a ‘Creepy Hollow’ for a dark spooky walk into the night. Lots of laughs and screams and enjoyed by all. PHOTO BY DEB PETERSON.

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Baudelaire championed the privilege and luxury of changing one’s mind. He thought it was natural and healthy to always keep evolving beyond one’s previous beliefs and attitudes, even if that meant one might seem inconsistent or irrational. “It is lamentable,” he once proclaimed, “that, among the Rights of Human Beings, the right to contradict oneself has been disregarded.” I bring these thoughts to your attention, dear Aries, so that you will feel at peace with the prospect of outgrowing rules, strategies, and approaches that have worked well for you up until now—but that have outlived their usefulness.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The horoscopes I write are my love letters to you. As I compose them, my goal is to celebrate your beauty and strength even as I discern what’s lacking in your life and what confusions might be undermining you. In my philosophy of life, that’s how love works at its best: remaining keenly aware of the good qualities in the beloved while helping them deal with their problems and heal their wounds. I suggest that in the coming weeks you adopt my approach for use with your own close relationships. Your allies are in special need of both your praise and your rectifications.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When Charles de Gaulle was 15 years old, he wrote “General de Gaulle,” a short story in which he envisioned himself, many years in the future, as a general in the French army. Thirty-five years later, his imaginary tale came true, as he became a general of the free French army fighting against Germany in the Second World War. In the spirit of de Gaulle’s prophecy, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I encourage you to compose a comparable tale about your own destiny. Have fun as you visualize in great detail a successful role you will play months or even years from now.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1903, archaeologists digging in a cave in Cheddar Gorge, England found the fossilized remains of “Cheddar Man,” a person who had lived there 9,000 years earlier. In 1997, DNA tests revealed that a teacher named Adrian Targett, who was living a half-mile from the cave, was a direct descendant of Cheddar Man. I propose that we invoke this scenario to serve as a metaphor for you in the coming months.

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, your ancestors are likely to play a bigger role in your life than usual. Connections between you and them will be more vivid and influential and worthy of your meditations.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to the film Amadeus, composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) and Antonio Salieri (1750–1825) were adversaries who disliked and undermined each other. But there’s evidence that this was not entirely true. In fact, they collaborated on creating a cantata that was performed by Nancy Storace, a famous singer they both admired. It’s unlikely they would have cooperated in such a way unless they had a working relationship. I suspect that a comparable correction is due in your world, Leo. It’s time to dissolve a misunderstanding or restore a lost truth or fix an old story that got some of the facts wrong.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The coming weeks will be a favourable time for you to ask for help and seek support.

I urge you to be forthright in doing so! Resources that have been inaccessible before may be more available now. I suspect you will be able to capitalize on the luck and skill of allies who have benefited from your favours in the past. Their successes could bring you blessings and their breakthroughs should inspire you to instigate breakthroughs in your own life. Be straightforward: Ask them to lend their influence in your behalf.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the 1970s, an Englishman named Stephen Pile founded the Not Terribly Good Club. It was designed to be a gathering place for mediocre people whose lives were marked by inadequacy and incompetence.

To organize his thoughts about the club’s themes, Pile

eventually published a book entitled The Book of Heroic Failures. Unfortunately, it sold so many copies that he got expelled from his own club. He had become too successful!

I suspect that in the coming months, you may have an experience akin to his. The odds are good that you’ll find interesting success in an area of your life where you have previously been just average.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder,” wrote Scorpio poet James Broughton. I believe that’s stirring advice for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks. Broughton’s words inspired me to come up with a corollary for you to heed, as well: “At every turning point, be ready to stumble into an opportunity disguised as a problem.” I’ve got one more clue for you. Last night in my dream, my Scorpio poetry teacher offered a thought that’s well-suited for you right now: “Whenever you want to take a magic twisty leap into the big fresh future, be willing to engage in one last wrestling match with the past.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Actor Gary Busey is quirky and kooky, but his peculiar rants sometimes make good sense. Here’s one that I suspect might be useful for you to consider during the next two weeks: “It’s good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.” I don’t mean to imply that your adversaries and nemeses are totally accurate in their critiques of you. But there may be a thing or two you can learn from them right now that would truly improve your life.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Musician John Coltrane described one of his life goals as follows: “There are forces out here that bring suffering to others and misery to the world,” he said. “But I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good.” Even if that’s not an intention at the core of your long-term plans, Capricorn, I recommend you consider adopting it during the next few weeks. Being a vigorous and rigorous force for good will be especially needed by the people with whom you associate—and will also result in you attracting interesting benefits.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Known as “the bad boy of bridge,” Aquarian-born Geir Helgemo is a champion in the card game of bridge. At times he has been the top-rated player among Open World Grand Masters. But in 2019, he was suspended from the World Bridge Federation for a year because he tested positive for taking testosterone supplements that are banned. Why did he do it? He hasn’t said. There is some scientific research suggesting that testosterone may boost cognitive function, but other evidence says it doesn’t. I’d like to use Helgemo’s foolishness as a teaching story for your use, Aquarius. According to my astrological analysis, you’re approaching the peak of your competence and confidence. There’s no need for you to cheat or sneak or misbehave in a misplaced effort to seek an even greater advantage. In fact, righteous integrity will enhance your intelligence.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I might really have gone round the bend,” confessed Motswana author Bessie Head. “I mean people who get visions and see a gigantic light descend on them from the sky can’t be all there, but if so I feel mighty happy. If one is happy and cracked it’s much better than being unhappy and sane.” Although I don’t expect your state of mind in the coming weeks will be as extreme as Bessie Head’s, Pisces, I do suspect it will have resemblances to her dreamy cheerfulness. If I had to give a title to this upcoming phase, it might be “Wise Folly.” And yes, I do think your “craziness” will generate useful insights and fertile revelations.

This week’s homework: At what moment in your past were you happiest about the person you were? Can you recreate it? FreeWillAstrology.com

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BAND ADMINISTRATOR The Band Administrator is responsible for the efficient and effective operations of the Band. The Band Administrator will work closely with

SUMMARY OF WORK DESCRIPTION: The Accountant will work in conjunction with the Band Administrator and key Program Staff in maintaining the financial accounting and control system for all programs. He/she will ensure maintenance of all computerized ledgers, journals and produce financial reports. The Bookkeeper will supervise the finance staff and provide support.

each of the Departments of the N’Quatqua Band and will serve as the Supervisor of the Department Managers. The Band Administrator will administer multiple programs and services, including financial assets of the band, property, natural resources and information and will manage in accordance with policies and priorities set out by Chief & Council. He/she will forecast program needs and plan for future program requirements. He/She will ensure effective financial management of programs and services, including accountability and will seek funding enhancements to improve service opportunities. The Band Administrator will keep abreast of new initiatives and will ensure programs are managed, delivered and evaluated in a coordinated and integrated approach on a fiscal basis and in a culturally appropriate and responsive manner. The Band Administrator will develop a detailed annual budget for Council approval, and will assist Department Heads in preparing annual departmental budgets. He/she will maintain sound working relationships with Staff, representatives of other departments, governments and outside agencies.

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Banking: - oversee monthly bank reconciliations.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE: Supervision/Performance Management: Provides a structured process for the supervision of Staff to ensure that required standards and program policy guidelines are met; Provides consultation on a day to day basis to the Department Managers, as appropriate, in the performance of their duties in relation to: a) Policy interpretation d) resource management practice b) Program eligibility e) workload management c) Case management practice f) conflict resolution

Accounts Payable: - Reconcile accounts payable sub-ledger.

Works closely with Chief & Council in policy updates and/or developments;

Financial Reporting: - Prepare monthly-computerized financial reports including budget information.

- Alert the Program Managers as to any significant variances in actual budget comparisons.

- Complete special reports for submission to the Managers and Chief and Council.

- Review reports for accuracy for outside agencies including Health Canada, Human Resources Development Canada and AANDC. - Work with Program Managers to ensure all program reports are submitted to funding sources in a timely manner.

Accounts Receivable: - Preparation of invoices and statements as required.

- Maintenance of cash receipts journal.

- Preparation of aged accounts receivable listing.

Administration & Financial Management: Maintains information, records, monthly calendar, schedules; Ensures that files are secure; Consults with Chief and Council on a regular basis; Provides regular reports and ensures the financial systems of the programs are maintained and accountability is in place; Monitors revenues and expenditures of all departments and works closely with department heads and/or Finance Manager on budgets; Identifies new sources of revenue for programs and services and applies for additional funding; Identifies and informs Council about new economic opportunities and risk assessment; Meets deadlines; EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: - Degree in Business Management or combined post-secondary education and work experience; - Previous work experience in a First Nations Band Office; - 3 to 5 years working experience with a First Nation;; - Must have experience in planning, conducting and managing programs and projects in a First Nations setting.

- Must have knowledge of First Nations history, traditions, lifestyles, culture, including approaches to community development and programming; - Must have experience and good skills in proposal writing, strategies, policies, operational and financial planning; - Must have excellent communication skills; - Must have ability to prioritize goals and objectives within timeframes; - Must have a sound understanding of financial management and preparing detailed annual budgets with working experience; - Must have good understanding of outside government organizations and funders; - Must have experience in supervising Managers and Staff; - Must have experience in negotiations; - Must have strong leadership skills;

Budgeting: - Work with Program Managers of each Department to ensure annual budgets are prepared.

- Provide advice and assist the Program Managers in implementing/ monitoring of budgets throughout the year.

- Provide recommendations to the Program Managers and Chief and Council.

Payroll: - Prepare quarterly report & payment for W.C.B. Other related duties: - Attend and participate in Council and community meetings upon request.

- Other related duties as assigned.

OTHER: - Must pass a criminal records check; - Must be able maintain flexible hours.

- Must have transportation and a valid BC driver’s license.

- Must have ability to work as a team member.

- Must have excellent public relations, interpersonal and communication skills.

- Must be able to work independently and serve as a Team Leader.

QUALIFICATIONS: Must have: - Training in accounting, auditing, budgeting, financial planning combined with experience; - Proven experience in financial budget analysis, preparation of monthly/ annual financial reports, and accounting principles; - Experience in working in First Nations accounting or financial management environment.

- The incumbent must have a vehicle and hold valid B.C. driver’s license.

Please forward resume, cover letter to Jenn Levine, jennifer.levine@nquatqua.ca at N’Quatqua Band Office. Only those shortlisted will be contacted for an interview. We would like to have a minimum of 3 applicants prior to setting up interviews.

The closing date for this job posting will be August 20, 2020 at 4pm

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A made-in-Whistler solution to housing woes SINCE IT’S ONLY Tuesday morning— deadlines, deadlines—I won’t bore you with any speculation about what might or might not happen or what it may or may not mean for the world if the shitshow south of the border goes one way or another. Either way, keep that border closed and close it even tighter for all I care.

Since all politics are local, let’s instead speculate on local politics. I’ll be first to admit local politics have been somnambulant for longer than I prefer and with notable exceptions, there hasn’t been anything worth getting worked up about.

BY G.D. MAXWELL GETTYIMAGES.CA

Oh, there’s the signature lack of courage to make any progress on a local cannabis outlet but at least the absence of political backbone in addressing that opportunity hasn’t had any real impact on the usual supply lines. Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em.

With council’s unwillingness to tackle something as complex as greenlighting a local pot shop, maybe they would be up for something easy. Housing, for example.

Not Whistler Housing Authority housing. That seems to be well underway, not to mention something I’m constrained to discuss. And certainly not the private developers’ proposals for employee housing.

Those seem to be verily whizzing along the approval process. (Editor’s note: Max, not everyone shares your sense of humour.)

No, I’m referring to tilting at the windmills of housing affordability and use.

Simple stuff.

I have the great good fortune to live in Rainbow. Good fortune because Rainbow is a neighbourhood. People live here. On Halloween, hamstrung as it was by COVID, we handed out nearly 100 dentist’s friends— candy bars—to little ghouls, many so young they could undoubtedly eat them with more proficiency than they can walk. We would have run out entirely had they been coming to the door instead of promenading past on the street, where we accommodated their parents’ concerns by setting up the candy dispensary there.

I used to live in Alpine. Alpine is a nice place but I’ve always been puzzled why it gets voted Whistler’s best neighbourhood in Pique’s annual Best Of poll. Of the six closest houses to the one I lived in, four were more frequently vacant than occupied. One of the other two was rented out to workerbees.

Neighbourhood? Technically. But one with far too many dark, vacant homes.

And it’s those dark, vacant homes I’d still like to see Whistler take a different tack on. More than one of our former mayors—I

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won’t tell you which ones—used to proclaim a fondness for Dark Empty Houses. The rationale seemed to be they provided property tax revenue without making a dayin, day-out demand on municipal services.

That seemed a fatuous argument to me unless they only measured demand for municipal services in terms of number of toilet flushes, bags of garbage tossed out and volume of water used. Those houses still get their roads cleared of snow, they are still attended to if they catch fire, we still build the water infrastructure to serve them, sewage capacity as well, we fund RCMP in case they get broken in to, fix their roads and so on.

The downside, of course, is no one is living there. In a town with a stubborn shortage of places to live, so many places were and still are unlived in, including many places that formerly had workerbee suites that have been lost to the twin demons of affluence and bad tenant experiences.

West Kelowna puzzled others.

I don’t find it that puzzling. Whistler accounts for the lion’s share of tax revenue generated by tourism in B.C. Empty-home owners in Kelowna are largely Albertans.

QED. (Editor’s note: op. cit.)

The tax, while peppered with exemptions, is levied on homes owned by people who don’t live in them. It recognizes the importance of the local housing stock as abodes for people who live in the communities affected. Turned around, it recognizes the negative impacts of empty homes on communities struggling to house people who live, work and contribute to their communities.

Around the same time, the City of Vancouver introduced its own Empty Homes Tax. It, too, levied an additional tax on properties not occupied or underutilized in a town suffering from the twin devils of virtually zero-per-cent rental vacancy and unaffordable housing prices.

In a town with a stubborn shortage of places to live, so many places were and still are unlived in...

So, what to do? Fortunately, that wheel has already been invented.

On New Year’s Eve 2018, the provincial government brought in its Speculation and Vacancy Tax on residential properties in select communities. Surprising to many, Whistler was not one of them. The exclusion of Whistler puzzled many people in the same way the inclusion of Kelowna and

Whistler would benefit handsomely from encouraging the provincial government to include it in the provincial program—with caveats below—and benefit further by passing its own Empty Homes Tax. That caveat? As part of its designation as B.C.’s first Resort Municipality, Whistler has two distinct forms of real estate: resort lands

and municipal lands.

Resort lands are within the footprint of the village and mountains and include most of what look like hotels and many houses, townhouses, and others. People who own resort land property pay Tourism Whistler fees and, generally, own properties carrying one of two covenants outlining the owner’s right to limited or unlimited personal use.

They constitute the resort’s hotel beds, beds available for tourists.

Housing outside the resort lands encompass the various neighbourhoods of Whistler.

With the myriad exemptions for certain types of properties under the provincial legislation, it could easily be applied to non-resort lands, that is, residential neighbourhoods. By exempting resort lands, non-residents could continue to own a piece of the dream. They could continue to own non-resort lands too, but they’d be paying handsome additional taxes. They could avoid them by renting part of that property to local residents, workerbee suites, for example.

A made-in-Whistler Empty Homes Tax could as easily apply only to non-resort lands.

The twin taxes have tended to have the desired effect where they’ve been applied.

There’s no reason to think they wouldn’t here as well.

A friend recently moved into a nice condo within walking distance of the village.

A small fraction of the units in the complex are occupied. The others are investments.

Entries on a balance sheet. I believe their owners should pay the additional taxes.

I believe other property owners who live here would be happy to see the impact on that additional source of revenue. I’m sure some people would be less than happy.

What more can you ask for? n

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