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WAITIN G GAM E With hundreds still waiting for affordable housing in Whistler, will demand ever be satisfied?

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EXPRESS ENTRY Whistler advocacy helps ease PNP restrictions

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36 The Waiting Game With hundreds still waiting for affordable housing in Whistler, will demand ever be satisfied? - By Braden Dupuis

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VOCAL VOICE

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RECEIVING RECOGNITION

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Opinion & Columns 08 OPENING REMARKS This week, we marked Pink Shirt Day, which is used to raise awareness

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letter to the community, while a letter writer asks us to think carefully before asking about gender identity issues.

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13 PIQUE’N YER INTEREST Writer Megan Lalonde discusses the moral dilemma of whether animals should be used for entertainment at all, and where that line should be drawn.

58 MAXED OUT Let’s play Bingo, says Max this week. However, his card is different that the province’s much-derided version.

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35 RANGE ROVER Writer Leslie Anthony was surprised by how much there is to learn about Whistler and its environs, which he discovered as he worked on the Whistler 101 video series.

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46 MUSEUM MUSINGS Once the UBC Varsity Outdoor Club finally decided to build its new cabin in

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Live Pink Shirt Day every day LIFT EACH OTHER UP. That is the message of this year’s annual Pink Shirt Day campaign, which was marked across Canada, including right here in Whistler at our schools and elsewhere, on Feb. 24.

The message resonates even more strongly this year than perhaps it has in the past, as we continue to survive the pandemic one day at a time. We all need to lift each other up.

Even the tale of how the campaign

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started in 2007 will raise you up—it’s a story of how one action changed the world and it’s worth re-telling.

It all began when two students from Nova Scotia, David Shepherd and Travis Price, and their teenage friends, organized a high-school protest to wear pink in sympathy with a Grade

of social media has made it much worse (just look at the toxic comments on Facebook that troll so many stories for no other reason that to blame or hurt or perpetuate an untruth). It is so easy to sit behind an avatar and cause pain to others, even though that may not always been the intent. We see it in workplaces, we see it across every walk of life from the school yard to the benches of government.

According to pinkshirtday.ca, one in five kids is affected by bullying, and over 47 per cent of Canadian parents report that their child has been the subject of bullying and cyberbullying.

Much of the bullying we see across all age groups takes the form of discrimination and harassment, sadly as heartbreaking as bullying is in children and youth realms, it is also alive and well in our adult populations.

We know it can lead to victims taking their own lives, and along the spectrum of impact, bullying and discrimination relentlessly wear down our mental health. In a good year, this is concerning. In a pandemic

“Cyberbullying was an exploding phenomenon before the advent of lockdown...”

-LOUISE BRADLEY

9 boy who was being bullied for wearing a pink shirt. To fight the bullying, they handed out 50 pink shirts to boys at their school—and today, millions wear pink to mark the day and support anti-bullying actions.

Their message captured not just the attention and hearts of other students but of other nations as well—countries from Japan to New Zealand now mark the day to help raise awareness around the issue.

Bullying is endemic globally and the rise

year, it cannot and should not be ignored.

Last month, Louise Bradley, the CEO of the Mental Health Commission of Canada, cited some recent U.S. figures in The Province that showed a 70-per-cent increase in cyberbullying in the past few months.

“Cyberbullying was an exploding phenomenon before the advent of lockdown and shelter in place. The threat it poses now is even greater,” Bradley wrote.

“As a society that is relying on technology

as a veritable lifeline, we can’t turn a blind eye to the risks lurking everywhere from schoolroom chat boards to TikTok.” In a pandemic, kids, youths—indeed, I would argue all of us—are cut off from many of the ways we would normally cope with bullying or discriminatory behaviour: Namely sharing the story with a friend and getting support, or being able to get away from the behaviour in a lockdown.

Yes, there are great places to get help here in Whistler and elsewhere, but even the act of reaching out feels beyond some people right now.

One of the worst forms of bullying for youth is sextortion and it, too, is on the rise.

Surrey RCMP reported that in 2020, preCOVID-19, it recorded about 32 cases, then in the second quarter of last year, that was up to 77 cases and from July to September, there were another 45 cases. The victims ranged in age from 12 years old to 30.

Speaking recently to the Vancouver Sun, Jennifer Charlesworth, B.C.’s representative for children and youth said of the oftentech-savvy kids in lockdown, “They want to be liked, they want to have friends, but they’re not able to participate in the typical kinds of social activities that all of our children need.

“There are online predators who are extremely sophisticated, using everything from Instagram to other forms of social media. And so we are concerned about young people being groomed for exploitation, and they’re being encouraged to share photos, and then nude photos and whatnot. And then the depth of shame is profound.”

It is hard to read statements such as Charlesworth’s, but knowledge is power. So when your kids come home from school, talk about bullying, and if your co-worker seems down, check in and see if they need a hand.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

From our hearts to yours To our community: In the last year, we have all felt the loss of “normal,” the stress of the unknown, the frustration of separation, and the weariness of the unending battle with a new enemy we have not previously faced in COVID-19.

However, it is during this time that we at the Whistler Health Care Centre (WHCC) have been overwhelmed with love, supported with encouragement and spurred on by generosity from you all, our community.

Words cannot reveal the depth of our gratitude for all the many ways that you have shown your support: Notes and cards, banging pots and pans, providing us with spin bikes, dropping off food and coffee treats, gifting us new beautiful scrub caps to wear with encouraging messages written inside, beautifully written notes of thanks and chocolates on Valentine’s Day. These are only a few examples of the endless list.

These incredible gifts of love have made this time of uncertainty and stress one that we are able to walk through, knowing that the community is behind us, for us, and with us.

We want to express our utmost gratitude for partnering with us in supporting our community through these challenging times this past year, and how you continue to do so through your donations to the trauma room renovation and your continued encouragement and gifts.

Thank you to The Whistler Health Care Foundation, all the local businesses, and individuals in the community that have brought us joy in moments of frustration, doubt, or stress. Your gifts of love have truly made all the difference in the world. It’s amazing how on a hard day, a carton of coffee dropped off for staff or a box of chocolates give us that little bit of sunshine that we all crave.

With love and thanks, The Staff of the Whistler Health Care Centre

Question the questions I am writing in response to Cathy Jewett’s letter “Young adults —have your say!” published in Pique, Feb. 11.

Firstly, I want to say that I was pleased to see Communities That Care Whistler is collecting this important data. COVID-19 has certainly had a huge impact on all the young folk I know, particularly those who are also dealing with immigration instability. What I want to talk about is the “missing … key data from more than 100

responses about which sex they identify as.”

Because there are many reasons people may choose not to answer this question.

In the survey, the actual questions are: “What is your gender identity?” and “How would you describe your sexual orientation?”

These are important distinctions to make as the term “sex” refers only to the male/female binary assigned at birth, based on whatever genital skin is clearly visible on the day. It’s an arbitrary and outdated signifier, and I’m glad the question as Cathy phrased it was not included in the survey.

I have no doubt that the responses to these questions will be kept confidential, and that the surveyors have good intentions in asking them, but these are highly personal questions.

For anyone struggling with or questioning their own gender or sexual identity, being asked to make a definitive choice on a survey can be triggering. It doesn’t matter how carefully worded the question is, or how many options are included, just simply asking these questions can cause stress and anxiety for folks who are still trying to answer these questions for themselves.

In her letter, Cathy explains that, “The data will be used to identify issues that are important to Whistlerites and areas they feel require more support.”

This is a general statement that refers to all of the information collected and is not reason enough to be asking someone about their sexual or gender identity. Why do they need to know how many survey respondents

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR identify as “Woman (cisgender)” versus “Woman (transgender)”? Why is this granular level of information required? What specifically will it be used for? (Also, not everyone knows what cisgender means. Generally, cisgender is a term for people whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth.)

Before asking identity questions, an explanation should be provided as to why they are being asked and how the information will be used.

They should only be asked when there is a specific need to collect the information. And if there is a specific need, there are often other ways to ask. For example, “Would you access support services designed for trans folk?” or “Would you access Queer-specific services?”

Questions phrased in this way are less personal than asking an individual to identify (and label) themselves.

To anyone in a position of collecting demographic information, whether it be on a government form, a marketing questionnaire or even for health services, please consider

Computers cannot replace a bank I am disappointed to read [Pemberton] Mayor Mike Richman’s conflicting comments in the recent Pique [news story] regarding the proposed closure of Scotiabank Pemberton (Pique, Feb.18).

Although Mayor Richman did express his frustration with the bank’s closing, he appears to be accepting of the poor decision Scotiabank has made. While the people of our communities fight to keep their only chartered bank, the Mayor of the Village of Pemberton is making the statement that a few computers will make up for Scotiabank’s poor decision to discontinue an essential service that serves a much wider population than the Village of Pemberton populace.

It is unfortunate that Mayor Richman feels a few computers set up in public areas will suffice for banking services for our communities. Doing online banking on computers in public places is less than ideal for security of a customer’s personal banking information.

“To anyone in a position of collecting demographic information, whether it be on a government form, a marketing questionnaire or even for health services, please consider if you actually need to ask individuals for gender information...”

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Kate Heskett // Whistler

Close the damn borders to whom?

Just heard on the CBC that the state of Washington with a population one and a half times the size of B.C. had vaccinated the same number of their citizens as all of Canada.

So in a few months of the spread of new COVID strains, and no vaccine, it will be the Americans saying, “ Close the damn borders” to keep the U.S. safe from those COVIDravaged Canucks!

Returning Canadian snowbirds and American Epic Pass holders will be vaccinated and it looks like unable to spread COVID-19 to us socially distancing locals.

The shoe may be on the other foot?

Michael Blaxland // Whistler

From the [Pique news story], it appears that Mayor Richman will be OK with the only chartered bank closing as long as our community is thrown a “bone.” A “bone” without any meat!

A bit of money ($25,000) and a few computers does not replace, in any way, the essential need for banking services to 11 communities (Village of Pemberton is only one of the 11 communities).

The loss to the economy for Pemberton and surrounding area will be greater than a few computers and $25,000.

The revenue from the lease of the bank premises, the loss of job opportunities for locals, and the loss of revenue from the stimulation created by this local essential service will have a much greater negative impact.

I sure hope Mayor Richman will change his direction and support the wider community, fighting to keep their only bank, rather than simply accepting Scotiabank’s poor offering of a “bone.”

Brenda McLeod // Pemberton (Editor’s note: Mayor Richman has regularly

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR updated Pemberton council on Scotiabank’s planned closure during his mayor’s reports, acknowledging the impact on the community, including detailing a call with a bank executive during his Feb. 2 report.)

It was time to move on A number of people have decided to give up the unequal struggle and leave Pemberton (Pembexit).

Destinations vary from Comox to Whitehorse. I would like to document why I have decided to move to Tumbler Ridge after

Anyone counting cars heading for Whistler between 6 and 9 a.m. would probably count 50 before they got bored. [What] one thing [do they have] in common? Most would have one person only. Any chance of lift-sharing, of pressuring the authorities to lay on a workable bus schedule?

Of course not.

Tumbler Ridge has a delightful golf course, which is covered in half a metre of snow. [This] club has track set the course and anyone is welcome to use it. Nobody is irresponsible enough to ski over the greens.

Why would you?

“From fences to aggression to stone throwing, landowners have succeeded in preventing people exercising their rights.”

- N. MATHEWS

Maclean Law is headquartered in Vancouver with offices across British Columbia.

20 years in the valley.

No doubt there are those who will feel that this litany of negativity is a bad example of sour grapes but it isn’t really. I love Pemberton but living here has become impossible.

The worst thing is the attitude of landowners to public land. Although it is illegal to physically stop people having access to public lands, this practice is rife around Pemberton. From fences to aggression to stone throwing, landowners have succeeded in preventing people exercising their rights.

The authorities have their meetings but do nothing. In England, the law enforces the Right to Roam. Not here.

Both golf courses in Pemberton forbid cross-country skiing.

Come and visit us up north! Life is slower and quieter but free of inner strife.

N. Mathews // Tumbler Ridge ■

FOR THE RECORD In the Feb. 18 edition of Pique, the story “Pemberton Valley Dyking District revels in provincial funding” neglected to note that the Pole Yard Dike is owned and managed by Lil’wat Nation. Pique regrets the error. ■

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At Avalanche Canada, our public avalanche forecasters also work as guides, educators, and in various other roles with the avalanche industry. They are trained to recognize when conditions are different from what they “normally” encounter or expect them to be. They learn to address these situations by recognizing them and being extra conservative with their decision making until they feel they have a thorough understanding of the snowpack.

It may sound counterintuitive, but the “safest” winter for avalanche hazard would be a winter where it kept snowing a little every day because the most dangerous weak layers in the snowpack are formed during periods of

drought. This steady snowfall that much of the coast has been blessed with in many of the past years has been replaced by dry periods between storms and large temperature swings that have created a much more complex snowpack than is typical for the region.

Looking ahead, this weather pattern seems to be continuing with storms followed by dry periods. The key to having fun in the mountains while staying safe is to recognize when conditions are different than anticipated, then adjusting your mindset and decisionmaking accordingly. This is easier said, than done, especially when the sun is shining, the snow is deep, and the stoke is high.

Fortunately, there are loads of courses and other resources available to aid in developing the skills and experience needed to effectively manage your risk in avalanche terrain. Check them out under the “Learn” tab at avalanche.ca.■

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Finding common ground in the latest sled dog scandal LAST WEEK, the British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BC SPCA) seized 40 animals from a West Kootenay sled dog operation.

According to the BC SPCA, conditions at the facility violated some parts of B.C.’s Sled Dog Code of Practice, a set of industry standards that were implemented in 2012.

BY MEGAN LALONDE The seizure reportedly came in response to public complaints about the dogs’ care.

It came after SPCA officers told the facility operator what changes needed to be made in order to comply, and gave him an opportunity to make them, only for him to refuse.

The owner, meanwhile, publicly disputed any claims that the dogs in his care were in distress or poorly housed.

It’s in this context that the Vancouver Humane Society (VHS) on Friday, Feb. 19 released a video of a Whistler dog sled kennel that it claimed showed dogs in distress and tethered to poles, while admitting nothing in the drone footage—taken by “animal advocates” and provided to the society—is illegal.

In what can easily be construed as a decision to grab hold of the momentum

created by headlines of the West Kootenay seizure, the VHS released the footage alongside an announcement launching a campaign aimed at encouraging the province to update its Sled Dog Standards of Care Regulation to conform to the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association’s (CVMA) Code of Practice for Canadian Kennel Operations. Under CVMA’s practices, tethering is banned.

Pique published a story about the video, the campaign, and the Whistler kennel owner’s denial of the accusations, that, to put it mildly, ignited a firestorm of criticism in our Facebook comments section, mostly aimed at us for covering the story in the first place. The vast majority of comments defended the owner of the kennel, who, by all accounts, cares for her dogs deeply, treats them well, runs a completely above-board operation and successfully re-homes retired sled dogs as companion animals.

I agree with some of the criticism pointed towards the VHS in that singling out one business as an example of what it says are industry-wide shortcomings is wrong. Just like using drones to “secretly” film a facility that welcomes visitors for kennel tours was not exactly the right way to go about accomplishing its goal.

But in the same breath, I also find common ground with the VHS in thinking that broaching the conversation about whether we can improve acceptable

standards of care is the right thing to do, as is holding the people who care for animals to the highest possible standard.

(Just like I think this publication’s decision to report on the video and give said business owner a platform to share her side of story is also the right thing to do, but a discussion about what truly constitutes “weak journalism” is a column for another day.)

I’ll be the first to admit I’m not a dog sled industry expert or veterinarian. But as your regular ol’ dog-obsessed human, I believe

I believe that we should always be considering and re-considering what’s best for animals as we learn more. that we should always be considering and re-considering what’s best for animals as we learn more. I strongly believe, as I hope most others do, that no healthy animal should be euthanized simply because they’re no longer “useful.”

But this latest conversation about the sled dog industry also opened up a wider internal debate that, for me, is anything but black and white. Where do I draw my own personal line

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My first horseback-riding lesson was, without exaggeration, the happiest day of my childhood. I was completely incapable of wiping the grin off my face once I was perched on a sweet pinto pony named Sammy.

Technically, that’s using an animal for entertainment, and for profit. Looking back, I do question how enjoyable carrying around a bunch of inexperienced, wriggly sevenyear-olds is even for the most docile school horse. But those lessons are also where I learned to respect animals, to care for them, and that relationships between animals and humans are mutual: you can ask a horse to change its gait, but you should never force an animal to do something it doesn’t want to do.

Horse racing on the other hand? Makes me more than a little uncomfortable. Petting sedated tigers in Thailand? Absolutely not.

It sometimes seems too easy for society to forget that animals are living, breathing creatures with needs and emotions, which aren’t always capable of verbalizing those needs and standing up for themselves in the same way humans can.

The onus is on our lawmakers to make the rules that ensure animals are protected, but it’s on all of us to work together to take care of them and make sure those rules are still providing the best protection possible. ■

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BY BRANDON BARRETT THANKS IN NO small part to Whistler’s advocacy, B.C. has lifted suspensions on dozens of occupations that had been frozen out of the Provincial Nominee Program (PNP), a boon for resort employers that struggled to fill labour shortages in the pandemic.

Effective Feb. 16, Victoria resumed issuing invitations to apply to the B.C. PNP for 31 occupations—which includes skilled positions in the tourism, hospitality and retail sectors—that had been excluded from the stream since March 30, 2020.

The decision came on the heels of a push from a local group led by the Whistler Chamber of Commerce that compiled data highlighting the program’s importance to the resort’s business community in a letter to B.C.’s jobs ministry.

“It’s certainly a win for Whistler and shows the strength of the Whistler Chamber of Commerce and [its] ability to advocate for these types of changes that are important to Whistler,” said Joel Chevalier, owner of Culinary Recruitment International, who was part of the team that made the case to the province alongside the chamber and Whistler Immigration.

“Within two weeks of that, the changes were made. I think it was very influential.”

PAVING A PATHWAY Canada has paved the way for thousands of prospective permanent residents with an historic round of invitations to more than 27,000 Express Entry applicants. Pictured is a 2017 citizenship ceremony on Whistler Mountain.

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Even with the outsized impact COVID19 has had on visitation, without the usual influx of foreign workers due to travel restrictions, Whistler has had to contend with staffing shortages throughout the pandemic. According to the chamber’s survey data, 68 per cent of Whistler businesses with 50 or more employees reported not having enough staff this summer, and 73 per cent said they felt that foreign worker programs were important to their business’ success.

“The summer was a bit challenging in that none of us in the HR community realized how busy we would get in July and August, and we certainly were stretched,” said Meredith Bodell, HR manager at the Nita Lake Lodge. ”We staffed up as best we could given what we were anticipating, and we got crushed.”

Adding to the challenge is that, even with positions unfilled, many workers in the suspended occupations were forced into unemployment for months on end. Bodell cited the example of a lead server who has been at the hotel for more than four years who was forced to go on CERB once his work visa expired.

“He’s been on the shelf since August because his work permit expired and he’s just been waiting in Creekside, ready to work, ready to pay taxes, but legally we couldn’t have him work until now,” she said.

Others left the province in search of an easier pathway to immigration, like some of the dozens of Moroccan chefs who had been recruited to the resort with an eye towards eventual permanent residency.

“We travelled internationally and hired cooks from Morocco with the dream of

them becoming permanent residents and invested all that, and that was their primary goal, so once they saw it was locked down here in British Columbia, they were smart and found other alternatives,” explained Bryin Munroe, director of people and culture at the Westin.

“We invested thinking we were going to have long-term employees and that was cut short.”

Now, with the suspensions lifted, Chevalier said resort employers have another retention tool at their disposal that is especially valuable for traditionally hard-tofill positions such as housekeepers and cooks.

“For every one of those jobs that employers can retain, that’s one less position that they have to find,” he said.

HISTORIC PR DRAW A ‘ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME’ OPPORTUNITY One of the perks of Brooke Finlay’s job as manager partner of Whistler Immigration comes when she gets to inform clients that they have been invited to apply for permanent residency (PR) after what is a long and complex process. After the federal government’s historic move to extend invitations to more than 27,000 PR applicants earlier this month, Finlay will have plenty of opportunities to spread some joy.

“We have a lot of really happy clients,” she said.

Ottawa made the historic decision to ramp up invitations after COVID-19 travel restrictions meant Canada fell well below its 2020 immigration target. Last year, Canada welcomed 184,370 new permanent

residents, the lowest immigration level since 1998, and just more than half of its original target of 341,000. Finlay said there is typically between 3,000 and 5,000 invitations extended every two weeks, while Feb. 13’s round totalled 27,332 invitations, representing every single person already in the Express Entry pool.

The feds also lowered the minimum point threshold of the Comprehensive Ranking System used to assess an applicant’s Express Entry profile, based on factors such as skills, education, language ability and work experience. Since the fall of 2019, Finlay said the minimum threshold hovered around 470 points, while the recent round of initiations saw the cut-off drop to 75.

“Now that this has happened, basically anyone with a year of skilled work experience in Canada who meets the minimum English-language requirements would qualify, and not just qualify, but get an invitation to apply,” she explained.

Whistler Immigration is now offering free online courses going over the PR application process step by step. Finlay said more than 50 people had signed up in a 36-hour period after the master classes were announced.

“For a lot of people, this could be a oncein-a-lifetime opportunity in the sense of, if they submit an application and anything’s wrong with it and it’s not successful, we don’t know if there’s ever going to be a draw that’s this low again,” she noted.

The classes, which will take place Thursday, Feb. 25 at 5 p.m. and Wednesday, March 3 at 9 a.m., will go over how to fill out the application, and a walk-through of the

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As tourism recovers, who will fill the jobs?

NEW RESEARCH PROJECT TO EXAMINE TOURISM LABOUR WOES

BY BRADEN DUPUIS WITH COVID-19 continuing to wreak havoc on B.C.’s tourism industry, the provincial government is funding new research into the industry’s labour needs today and into the future.

The BC Tourism and Hospitality Labour Market Information Research Project kicked off in late January, and will be carried out over 15 months, said Krista Bax, CEO of tourism human resources firm go2HR. The project will determine what the workforce needs will be as the industry recovers over the next five years, as well as what jobs have been lost or added since the pandemic began, Bax said.

“At a high level, we want to create an employment tracker that helps track that monthly employment so we know how we’re recovering,” she said.

“Because if you’re sort of working in a vacuum, you don’t know where you’re headed as you’re headed there.”

Researchers will also look at workforce supply, Bax said.

The first phase of the project will consider labour forecasts based on different recovery scenarios (ranging in optimism from good to bad) for the next five years, Bax said.

“We’re going to be conducting a survey in the summer: Who has actually come back? What’s their experience? What do they think about the industry going forward? Do they feel that it’s safe, do they feel that it’s secure?” she said.

“It’s sort of that overall perception of, can we rely on the same workers that we did pre pandemic?”

B.C.’s tourism workforce totalled about 300,000 before COVID-19 hit, Bax said, and was effectively cut in half through March and April of last year.

“So a lot of people are wondering what’s going to happen in 2021, what’s going to happen in 2022,” she said.

Though Whistler won’t have direct representation on the research project, the labour question hasn’t escaped the braintrust at Whistler’s municipal hall throughout local recovery planning.

There were many small businesses struggling to find staff at winter’s outset, and anecdotally there are still businesses

understaffed, said Joel Chevalier, chair of the Resort Municipality of Whistler’s labour market recovery working group.

Where some larger employers like the Westin and Fairmont were seeing an “inordinate amount of applications,” some of those applications were redirected to smaller employers, Chevalier said.

“So we were able to do some crosspollination there,” he said.

“There is still a labour shortage, [but] it’s not as pronounced, and there’s a bigger piece of it now that’s about application utilization versus there’s just not enough people.”

Whistler employers have also had success this year in recruiting Canadians from Ontario and Quebec, as ski hills back East were closed due to the pandemic— an opportunity that could continue in the short term, Chevalier said.

“The other opportunity—and I don’t know that this one has been capitalized on yet—is the First Nations recruitment,” he said, adding that pre-pandemic, First Nations people accounted for just two per cent of the workforce (a number that has stayed stagnant).

“I think the opportunity now is for employers to figure out how to engage the Squamish and Lil’wat Nations to be a part of it.”

Access to labour is critical to Whistler’s recovery, and while some sectors have done well with staffing through the pandemic, “there have been gaps in other areas,” said Tourism Whistler president and CEO Barrett Fisher.

“So I think some of this work in really doing forecasting with recovery scenarios, identifying what the needs will be and helping businesses as they do prepare for ramp-up is certainly an important piece of work,” Fisher said.

Visitation to Whistler has predictably been stunted as local COVID-19 cases have skyrocketed in the early months of 2021, with January room nights down 68 per cent year over year, Fisher said.

“We’re hopeful that we might see some relaxing of restrictions in the spring, and so we’re planning for some spring skiing campaigns when the time is right,” she said.

“Otherwise we are hard at work focusing on summer 2021, fall 2021 and even starting to do some work on winter 2021/2022.”

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‘Five-hundred messages of positivity and encouragement’ WHISTLER SECONDARY STUDENTS MARK PINK SHIRT DAY WITH PHYSICALLY DISTANT MURAL

BY MEGAN LALONDE ANYONE WHO visits the Whistler Secondary School’s (WSS) multipurpose room this week will see a large, colourful mural of hearts adorning the walls, organized in the shape of a rainbow.

In the middle of the hearts are a series of staggering statistics. For example, that 80 per cent of teens reported having seen racist or sexist content online, that more than one in five teens who are unsure of their sexual orientations have experienced online bullying, or that, when peers intervene, most bullying incidents stop within 10 seconds.

Surrounding these statistics are tiny Post-It Notes displaying messages of positivity, courage and acceptance, intended to lift each other up.

The mural was assembled in honour of Pink Shirt Day, a global anti-bullying campaign that’s been marked annually in B.C. since 2008. The event originated in Nova Scotia one year prior, when students David Shepherd and Travis Price bought and doled out 50 pink shirts to their classmates, after a boy in ninth grade was bullied for wearing a pink shirt to school.

This year, the Grade 11 and 12 leadership students tasked with organizing Pink Shirt Day activities at WSS decided to put an extra emphasis on diversity and inclusion to the LGBTQ+ community—hence the rainbow-themed mural—explained student Kaiya Nixon in a Zoom interview Feb. 23.

“It’s also our understanding that the universal theme of Pink Shirt Day within Canada now is mental health, so what we did as part of our mural is ask students to write positive messages,” she said. “So that’s kind

of encouraging good mental health.”

Though WSS students would typically recognize the day with a school-wide assembly, the COVID-19 pandemic forced them to consider new ways of marking the occasion.

Instead of the gathering, leadership delegates visited each class to discuss the importance of the anti-bullying initiative and to collect the uplifting Post-it messages that are now displayed within the rainbow mural.

Those messages are, “mainly simple things like, ‘Stay happy,’ and ‘We’ll get through this.’ One of the best ones is an ‘encourage-mint,’ and someone drew a spearmint,” said student Sean Benson with a laugh. “There’s about 500 kids at our school so that’s about 500 messages on the wall of just positivity and encouragement. I think it’ll really help some people.”

He added, “There is a misconception that there isn’t bullying here … so all of the statistics really help show that that’s not true. We still have bullying here, and all across the country. And then the positive messages kind of help to encourage everyone to be kind and treat others how you want to be treated yourself.”

Though Pink Shirt Day has, at its core, always been focused on students’ mental health and well-being, the pandemic and the added stress it’s placed on both students and teachers has also reinforced the importance of checking in on each other, said WSS student Sierra Haziza.

“We haven’t been able to do all the fun things in the past that we normally do that kind of creates a strong sense of community at WSS, so I think that in sending these messages, even though they’re kind of like light and fun, is helping to kind of create a positive sense of community,” she said. n

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“I would love to push that envelope a little bit and find women engineers, and amazing men that are talking about art, that are great artists and musicians, and talking about those industries.”

While the TED Talks brand is a global phenomenon often covering broad and expansive topics, the TEDx offshoots are grassroots in nature, bringing the TED philosophy of “ideas worth spreading” to the local level. “[It’s] for the people, by the people,” Virk said. “[With TEDx], the people that live in the city are able to highlight the people that they are really proud of, and so I’m really excited that we’ll be able to have that aspect in Whistler.”

It’s not the first time TED has held events in the resort.

In 2014 and 2015, Whistler was host to TEDActive—a simulcast conference complementing the main event in Vancouver.

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BY BRADEN DUPUIS IF YOU WERE going to give a TED Talk, what would your message be?

If you’ve ever imagined yourself gracing the stage at the world-renowned speaker series, you might soon get your chance— TEDxWhistler is set to land in the resort this fall.

Nominations and submissions for local speakers will open soon at tedxwhistler.com.

Of an anticipated 10 to 12 speakers, at least half will be Whistlerites, said TEDxWhistler executive producer Anoop Virk.

“It’s going to be a mix. I would say that we’ll probably have two people that are going to be out of province,” she said.

“At this point it’s at the level of what we can do with COVID. We’re obviously playing with something that we’ve never played with before.”

The event will be held virtually (though outdoor viewing parties could be possible depending on which way COVID-19 cases are trending), and while tickets won’t be free, attendees will get their value back via coupons from sponsors, Virk said.

“Even if people can’t get a spot on that stage, [I’d love] to still be able to highlight

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them through our social media, or if we do a podcast or interviews,” Virk said.

“If just to be able to bring that sense of community and highlight amazing stuff that’s happening in Whistler.”

Being the first female executive producer of TEDxVancouver, it was

important to Virk to see that representation transferred to the new Whistler iteration.

“For TEDxWhistler we have a womenled executive team … and we will be doing a gender-equal stage this year, which is awesome, because I think a lot of the times when we think of ideas or messages being

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‘Mental health issues are not going away’ TASK FORCE PREPS NEW WEBSITE FOR MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES DURING COVID-19

BY BRADEN DUPUIS FOR AS MUCH fundraising as Whistler’s Kelty Patrick Dennehy Foundation (KPDF) has done for youth mental health over the years (more than $7 million and counting), the need for resources has only been exacerbated as the COVID-19 pandemic wears on.

“We’re still keeping our little fingers in different things, not doing as much fundraising and everything as we did before, but we’re still very active and still very involved,” said Ginny Dennehy, director of the KPDF. “It’s important to help these people, because unfortunately, mental health issues are not going away. They are still here, and we’ve seen more of them during this really terrible COVID time.”

Compounding the struggles for the KPDF are limitations on gatherings, which have hindered its ability to fundraise— which is why Dennehy is fortunate for an unexpected partnership with Richmond fish supplier Organic Ocean Seafood Inc. After Dennehy reached out to the company on a whim, it agreed to donate 10 per cent of proceeds (if ordered

through the URL organicocean.com/keltyfoundation) for the months of February, March and April.

“I just thought it was a neat story, because it just shows how, during these COVID times, people are helping each other,” Dennehy said.

“We can’t go out and do big fundraising events or anything like that, but this is a

organization that really could use our help,” he said.

“Hopefully we can make a small contribution or a difference for them.”

As it relates to Whistler’s youth, Jackie Dickinson, executive director of the Whistler Community Services Society, evoked one of Canada’s preeminent children’s entertainers.

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way that we can raise money and make a difference to our community, so I think it’s all good.”

Organic Ocean Seafood’s past charitable efforts have mostly been in the realm of donating food, said CEO Guy Dean, adding that he was struck by the Dennehys’ “heartwrenching” story after Ginny reached out (read more at thekeltyfoundation.org).

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“The line from Raffi is ‘the more we get together, the happier we’ll be,’ and we can’t do that,” she said.

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“This need for one centralized ‘hub,’ which caters specifically to Sea to Sky Corridor residents, was something that was identified after we did our mental health survey in the summer,” said WBF executive director Mei Madden, in an email.

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If the Government of British Columbia lifts the Provincial State of Emergency currently in place before March 9, 2021, this Public Hearing will be held at the following location: MAURY YOUNG ARTS CENTRE Franz Wilhelmsen Theatre, 4335 Blackcomb Way, Whistler, BC OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLAN AMENDMENT BYLAW (5298 ALTA LAKE ROAD) NO. 2289, 2020 And ZONING AMENDMENT BYLAW (5298 ALTA LAKE ROAD) NO. 2283, 2020 SUBJECT LANDS: The parcel that is the subject of the proposed Bylaws is 5298 Alta Lake Road, Whistler, described as LOT B (REFERENCE PLAN 2643) EXCEPT PART DEDICATED ROAD ON PLAN BCP7865, DISTRICT LOT 2246, GROUP 1 NEW WESTMINSTER DISTRICT. The parcel is identified as “subject property” on the map attached to this notice.

PURPOSE: In general terms, the purpose of the proposed Official Community Plan Amendment Bylaw is to amend Schedule “A” (Whistler Land Use Map and Designations) of Whistler’s Official Community Plan to change the land use designation of the subject lands from Visitor Accommodation to Protected Natural Area, Parks and Recreation, Residential and Visitor Accommodation, and Residential Low to Medium.

In general terms, the purpose of the proposed Zoning Amendment Bylaw is to amend the TA17 Zone (Tourist Accommodation Seventeen) to provide for 21 employee housing dwelling units, 11 tourist accommodation dwelling units, 11 residential dwelling units and an amenity building on a 1.93 hectare portion of the subject lands conditional on the provision of amenities. The amenities entitling the owner to the greater density of development are transfer to the Resort Municipality of Whistler of a 1.44 hectare portion of the subject lands for nature conservation park and community park and a 0.5 hectare portion of the subject lands for future employee housing, construction of valley trail on the subject lands, relocation and restoration of two heritage structures on the subject lands, construction of the community park on the subject lands, and construction of 21 employee housing dwelling units on the subject lands.

INSPECTION OF DOCUMENTS: A copy of the proposed Bylaws 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 February 25, 2021 to and including March 9, 2021 A copy of the proposed Bylaws 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/RZ001157 PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaws 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 3:30 p.m. on March 9, 2021, 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 March 9, 2021 between 3:30 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/RZ001157 2. Participate LIVE via Online Video or Phone Conferencing The live Public Hearing will take place March 9, 2021 at 6:30 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 Bylaws by online video or by phone, please use the Public Hearing web link or one of the phone numbers (including Webinar ID) provided below.

• The web link for the Public Hearing online video option is: https://whistler.zoom.us/j/69745396460 • The phone numbers to access the Public Hearing phone conferencing option are as follows: +1 778 907 2071 +1-647-374-4685 • The Webinar ID is: 697 4539 6460 Instructions for Participating via Zoom Online Video or Phone Conferencing • Online video: It is possible to access the Public Hearing on a computer, tablet or smartphone using the web link above. Your camera will not be available, but your microphone will need to be enabled. To indicate that you wish to make an oral representation, Map showing Subject Lands click on the ‘raise hand’ feature. The moderator will allow each person to speak in turn. When it is your turn to speak, your microphone will be unmuted and you will be asked to provide your name and address for the public record. Please be patient as there may be others in the queue before you.

• Phone conferencing: To access the Public Hearing by phone, use one of the phone numbers above along with the Webinar ID as prompted.

To indicate that you wish to make an oral representation, use the ‘raise hand’ feature by dialing [*9]. When it is your turn to speak, the moderator will announce the last three digits of your phone number, and your line will be unmuted. You will be asked to provide your name and address for the public record. Please be patient as there may be others in the queue before you.

After the conclusion of this Public Hearing, Council cannot receive representations from the public on the proposed Bylaws.

General information on participating in the RMOW’s electronic public hearings is available here: https://www.whistler.ca/municipal-gov/council/ public-hearings Members of the public can also view the Live Stream of the Public Hearing at: https://www.whistler.ca/municipal-gov/council/meeting-agendas-andminutes Subject Property

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PRESENTATION PREVIEW Brendan and Amanda Ladner will present their ‘Bigger Moves’ presentation on climate action to council on March 2.

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BY BRADEN DUPUIS WHEN BRENDAN LADNER moved his family to Whistler from Vancouver last fall, it was right when the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) was conducting a survey that would inform its new Big Moves Strategy on Climate Action.

Having experienced his own climate angst—and having seen many promises and emissions reduction targets with little corresponding action—he was excited to take part.

But something about it felt off.

“Doing the survey, I was convinced Whistler is missing the boat quite seriously on climate action,” said Ladner, CEO of Vancouver healthy fast food chain SMAK. “The impression I got from the questions is that if everyone gets a Tesla, we’re going to be fine.”

With that, Brendan and his wife Amanda set out on a research project, which will culminate in a presentation (from an initiative the Ladners are calling Smart Whistler) to council on March 2.

The presentation will make the case for “Bigger Moves” to ensure Whistler actually hits its ambitious climate targets—namely by declaring a climate emergency, and subsequently delaying or deferring nonemergency spending.

Working from the 2021 to 2025 Five Year Financial Plan, the Ladners identified projects they believe could be delayed by up to three years, freeing up roughly $12 million a year for climate initiatives.

Using the newly freed funds, Smart Whistler proposes an ambitious slate of climate initiatives, including free public transit, free e-bikes, smart infrastructure upgrades, a “Big Moves” climate hub in Whistler Village, upgrades to active transportation infrastructure, and more.

It also calls for a revenue-neutral road toll (with all income being spent on active transportation and zero-emission transit), a one-per-cent gas tax to deter driving,

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lower speed limits, revamped building requirements and a ban on new natural gas connections, among other initiatives.

“We really tried to cast a big net to try and get some best practices, and through this, what we’ve come to understand, is that in the 2020s, there’s going to be a disruption, primarily in transportation and energy, but there’s going to be a disruption of everything,” Ladner said.

“This is the decade of disruption, and it doesn’t seem like anyone at the municipality thinks this.”

Smart Whistler has already been pitching ideas to mayor and council, who look forward to hearing the March 2 presentation, said Mayor Jack Crompton.

“Our organization puts a tremendous amount of thought into the decisions we make around where we invest taxpayer dollars,” he said.

“We’re spending the community’s money, and it’s critical that we’re deeply thoughtful when we do that. Our fiveyear financial plan lays out what those expenditures are, and though we can adjust them in response to changing realities, they’re in that plan for a reason.”

As seen throughout the 2021 budget process, not properly investing in assets and infrastructure can have tax implications down the line.

But then, the 2022 budget comes in a municipal election year—what better time to gauge the will of the electorate by floating some overly ambitious spending proposals?

The question becomes, then, how much does political risk factor into council’s decision-making on climate?

“Honestly, I really think trying to do what’s best for our community is most important, regardless of what the politics of those decisions are,” Crompton said.

“We must be responsible with the community purse, and we want to be ambitious with how we respond [on climate]. It’s a fine balance.”

Find a link to watch the March 2 presentation at whistler.ca/municipal-gov/ council/meeting-agendas-and-minutes. n

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TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2021 – 5:30 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 March 9, 2021, 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 (8200 BEAR PAW TRAIL) NO. 2297, 2020

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SUBJECT LANDS: The parcel that is the subject of the proposed Bylaw is 8200 Bear Paw Trail, Whistler, described as Lot 9, District Lot 7302, Group 1 New Westminster District, Plan BCP38413. 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 increase the range of permitted uses in the CD1 Zone applicable to the Subject Lands to allow a child care facility and a broader range of neighbourhood serving commercial uses. With the exception of the grocery store, the proposed Bylaw also requires the commercial floor area of the Subject Lands be demised into a least three commercial retails units, of which a minimum of 85 square metres of gross floor area must be in use as or available for use as a café, restaurant or neighbourhood public house.

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 February 25, 2021 to and including March 9, 2021.

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/RZ001164 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.)

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Written submissions will also be accepted on March 9, 2021 between 3:30 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.

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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.

• The web link for the Public Hearing online video option is: https://whistler.zoom.us/j/69745396460 • The phone numbers to access the Public Hearing phone conferencing option are as follows: +1-778-907-2071 +1-647-374-4685 • The Webinar ID is: 697 4539 6460 Instructions for Participating via Zoom Online Video or Phone Conferencing • Online video: It is possible to access the Public Hearing on a computer, tablet or smartphone using the web link above.

Your camera will not be available, but your microphone will need to be enabled. To indicate that you wish to make an oral representation, click on the ‘raise hand’ feature. The moderator will allow each person to speak in turn. When it is your turn to speak, your microphone will be unmuted and you will be asked to provide your name and address for the public record. Please be patient as there may be others in the queue before you.

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After the conclusion of this Public Hearing, Council cannot receive representations from the public on the proposed Bylaw.

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A legacy of Pride FORMER DIRECTOR OF WHISTLER PRIDE AND SKI FESTIVAL LOOKS BACK ON EVENT’S IMPORTANT HISTORY

BY BRANDON BARRETT WHEN DEAN NELSON attended his first Snowball in 1994, the marquee event of Whistler Pride and Ski Festival, he was expecting a ball-gown and black-tie affair, and dressed accordingly.

“I went with a couple colleagues from work and they were in these beautiful dresses and I’m in a suit, and we get in there and everyone was half-naked,” he recalled.

“I was like, ‘Oh my god!’ It was kind of an eye-opener.”

For Nelson, who would later assume the role of executive director, it was the first realization of how special the festival was: a place where the LGBTQ+ community could let their hair down and be themselves, whether it was dancing the night away at the Roundhouse, skiing the alpine with rainbow-flag flying high, or simply walking down the Village Stroll, hand-in-hand with the person they love.

LGBTQ+ tourism consultant and travel curator, Nelson spoke about the history of North America’s longest-running gay ski week and the important legacy it has left behind, as part of an online talk last Wednesday, Feb. 17 hosted by the Whistler Museum.

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LEAVING A LEGACY Former Pride festival director Dean Nelson spoke of the event’s important legacy in an online talk last week.

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Founded in 1992 by Brent Benaschak, the festival, then known as Altitude, was created in response to a controversial amendment to Colorado’s state constitution that prohibited cities and institutions from establishing anti-discrimination protections for sexual orientation. (Known

as Amendment 2, it was eventually declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court.)

“Basically, it gave landlords and businesses the opportunity to openly discriminate against gays and lesbians,” Nelson explained. “It was absolutely

terrible.”

Instead of spending money in a state that didn’t value them as people, Benaschak and a group of friends decided to establish their own gay ski week in Whistler, considered one of the few ski resorts at the time that accepted the LGBTQ+ community.

Even still, it was not all smooth sailing in the nascent years. Still on the tail end of a devastating HIV-AIDS epidemic, “there was a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding of what the disease was all about,” Nelson said. “A lot of businesses were nervous about having so many gay people in the resort.”

That led to an initiative called the Pink Dot Campaign, which saw festival attendees mark their money and credit card receipts with a pink sticker so resort businesses would be hard-pressed to ignore the event’s economic windfall.

“That was just so the merchants could see gay money coming into the resort, and that really turned attitudes around, that there is a big impact here,” noted Nelson.

Whistler Pride was fortunate to have some notable boosters in those early years, including Beverly Brown, the GM of now-

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An early watershed moment for the festival came in the mid-‘90s when the National Brotherhood of Skiers, a U.S.based club for Black skiers that were in town at the same time as Pride, complained to the municipality about there being too many gay people in the resort. The RMOW, in turn, defended the festival, saying that everyone was welcome in the resort.

“That sent a really nice message for us, saying, ‘Hey, we’re an invisible minority, and it’s really wonderful to have an ally that is standing up for us,’” Nelson said.

Taking over the festival in 2006 when it was at risk of an 11th-hour cancellation, Nelson and his team somehow pulled off the event at the last minute—and, to their surprise, managed to break even.

That year also established a new level of visibility for the festival when organizers successfully lobbied to hang rainbow banners on the pedestrian bridge overlooking Village Gate Boulevard.

“It was quite emotional for a lot of people when they were taking in the Whistler perimeter, coming around the corner and seeing the rainbow flags,” Nelson recalled. “That was the first time in the event’s history that we were really out and proud and really visible. … The

LET YOUR FLAG FLY Whistler Pride and Ski Festival would have marked its 29th year this month, but the pandemic forced organizers to postpone. Former director Dean Nelson spoke of the event’s important legacy in an online talk last week.

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attitude and the energy in the village shifted knowing that it was Pride Week. It was pretty special.”

That visibility expanded in 2010, Whistler’s Olympic year, with the resort’s first gay pride parade, sandwiched between the Olympics and Paralympics, as well as the establishment of Pride House, a safe space for LGBTQ+ athletes and media that was the first of its kind for the Games.

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“This is the legacy we gifted to the world, and it continues to this day. It’s pretty remarkable.”

This month would have marked

Whistler Pride and Ski Festival’s 29th year, but of course, the pandemic forced organizers to postpone the event. But even without an in-person event, Nelson knows the festival’s significance runs deeper than just a week on the calendar.

“Pride is more than just an event now,” he said. “It’s an attitude, it’s a spirit of the community, and it’s a core value.”

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RCMP goes over most common scams in Whistler—and how to protect yourself CPL. NATE MILLER PRESENTS TO LOCAL SENIORS’ GROUP ON FRAUD PREVENTION AND AWARENESS

BY BRANDON BARRETT

CANADA REVENUE AGENCY SCAM

WITH TAX SEASON IN full swing, local police went over some of the mostcommon scams and frauds that they come across in Whistler, as well as the best ways to protect yourself, in a presentation last week.

RCMP Cpl. Nate Miller held the session over Zoom as part of a new virtual series organized by the Whistler Public Library and local seniors group, the Mature Action Community.

With Canadians over 50 being the most targeted demographic by scammers, Miller offered some advice to the group on how best to protect against fraud, both online and off.

A scam that has increased in frequency in recent years, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) scheme is common in tax season, and often involves a caller posing as a CRA agent, sometimes masking their number to appear as if it is coming from the CRA, and threatening arrest or legal action if payment for overdue taxes is not received.

This scam can also take the form of an email or text.

“They’re really aggressive the way they come across and talk to you over the phone.

It can be quite overwhelming for some,” explained Miller, who said Whistler has seen “a lot of people who have unfortunately become victims” of this scheme.

A similar scam involving a caller posing as an immigration official threatening

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deportation or arrest has also been noted.

A new wrinkle in the scheme involves the caller following up with the victim after money has already been sent offering to “recoup some of these losses if you pay a fiveper-cent administrative fee,” Miller said.

“At that point, unfortunately the victim might be quite desperate and want to get their money back, as it could be a substantial amount, and they might get sucked into providing more money to get those losses back, which obviously won’t happen.”

In any kind of call like this, police

advise to ask for a call-back number, which, if provided, can be reported to the RCMP or the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre.

Miller stressed that “time is on your side, so don’t rush into any of these scenarios to give out personal information.”

It’s also normal for callers to demand payment in cryptocurrency, which makes it virtually impossible for authorities to retrieve, or in pre-paid gift cards. Both are payment types that a legitimate organization or government agency would never request.

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NEWS WHISTLER Miller said bitcoin scams are increasing locally “as we do have a bitcoin machine in the [Summit Lodge] in town and a lot of these scammers now will ask for bitcoin transactions.” (The RCMP has notices up at the machine advising of potential scams.)

In 2018, a Whistler woman reportedly sent nearly $10,000 in bitcoin to scammers posing as CRA agents who threatened her with arrest over unpaid taxes.

CRA and immigration scams fall under the umbrella of extortion, which, in 2020, hit 6,689 reported victims and represented $12.5 million in losses nationwide.

FAKE PROPERTY RENTAL SCAM A common scheme in tourist hotspots such as Whistler, this type of fraud generally affects visitors or prospective renters looking to land accommodation before setting foot

ROMANCE SCAM Canada’s top fraud in terms of money lost last year, at $18.5 million, romance scams have grown in frequency with the rise of online dating platforms, particularly during the pandemic “when people are feeling lonely and isolated,” Miller said.

Romance scams capitalize on someone’s vulnerability and desire for connection, and fraudsters will typically advance the relationship quickly before eventually asking for money.

“Let’s say you’re starting to talk to someone and then they start showing interest in you, and then all of a sudden they want to come to Whistler to visit you but need help with transportation or a visa or they have a sick relative that they need help with or that sort of thing,” Miller said. “It could start off quite innocently … They may send flowers to your door. You think the relationship is developing somewhere, but usually these

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in town. Given the crime often takes place outside of Canadian borders, it can be difficult to investigate.

“A lot of these will happen as fake printlist ads … for a monthly rental and they’ll ask for the first month’s deposit. Usually what happens is the victim will show up at these vacation rentals, knock on the door and realize there’s already someone occupying the residence,” Miller noted.

Scammers will often “piggyback” on vacation rental ads on Airbnb and other legitimate platforms, Miller said, using the existing photos to market a property for rent that is already occupied or lists a non-existent address.

“That’s one that we see a lot of,” he added.

Experts say in the case of rental properties, if the deal seems too good to be true, it probably is, and they advise not to send any money online before being able to verify the property’s existence and address.

Set up an in-person viewing (or have a friend do it for you).

PHISHING A type of online scam that can incorporate other forms of fraud, phishing generally refers to attempts to acquire personal or financial information through the masking of emails and websites to appear legitimate.

Scammers will often do what’s called “brand spoofing,” sending emails or creating websites made to appear like they’re coming from a reputable company.

In both instances, watch out for spelling and formatting errors. Don’t provide any information and never click on any attached links, as they may contain spyware or malware.

Phishing was the fourth most reported type of scam in Canada last year, at 3,672 reports, and given the embarrassment that can often be attached to it, is considered to be significantly under-reported.

relationships will develop extremely fast and someone’s claiming to have a profound love for you within a couple weeks.”

In these cases, Miller said the best thing to do is slow down and ask yourself the question: “Would someone I had never met really declare their love for me after a few letters or emails?”

Another romance scam involves fraudsters using a fake website designed to mimic a legitimate dating site, where they may request personal information and/or payment to use the service.

In these instances, watch out for suspicious looking URLs and email addresses that may be “slightly off” from a legitimate site, Miller said.

GRANDPARENT SCAM This scheme involves a caller posing as someone’s grandchild in some form of distress, and requesting that money be wired urgently to resolve the situation.

“It’s a numbers game for these guys,” Miller said. “They’ll call multiple people and then all of a sudden they’ll call the right person who has a granddaughter or a grandson. It can be quite convincing.”

This scam relies on creating a sense of panic in the moment, so Miller recommends “trying your best to slow down the situation and ask questions to yourself” about the nature of the call and caller.

To guard against all forms of fraud, Miller said to protect your personal and financial information “as you would your money. Don’t leave them laying around for others to take and only give out your personal details when absolutely necessary and when you trust the person you’re speaking or dealing with.”

Frauds can be reported to the local RCMP detachment at 604-938-3044 or to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre at 1-888495-8501. n

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Sea to Sky Invasive Species Council looks back on surprisingly strong 2020 AFTER ADJUSTING TO THE PANDEMIC, THE ORGANIZATION SAW A PRODUCTIVE YEAR, WITH NEW PROJECTS PLANNED FOR 2021

BY ALYSSA NOEL DESPITE THE COVID-19 pandemic, Sea to Sky Invasive Species Council (SSISC) saw growth in many areas in 2020.

For one, its revenue was about $520,000, up 21 per cent from 2019, thanks to a mix of COVID-19-related wage subsidies, federal programs, and funding applied for in 2019.

But the non-profit organization also saw a slight uptick in the amount of work it accomplished, too.

“We did 1,046 [site surveys] in 2019,” said Clare Greenberg, executive director with SSISC. “This year, it was 1,054 surveys.

We started a bit later. It took a minute to get our COVID protocol in place.”

In total, they also: surveyed and mapped about 1.2 hectares of invasive

on sites that were a bit more remote and out of busy, public areas,” Greenberg said. “The team adapted and hit the ground running.”

SSISC’s five-year strategic plan also concluded in 2020, which means this year the board and staff are looking ahead to the next half decade.

“There were a few things we weren’t able to achieve in 2020 that get rolled over,” Greenberg said. “This week, we’re doing another strategic planning session with board and staff to draft a new five-year plan for feedback and input.”

One change she would like to see for the future is the provincial government draft and adopt an Invasive Species Act of B.C. In part, that would help groups like SSISC grow invasive animal programs.

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plants with 39.2 per cent of previously treated sites showing no signs of regrowth; conducted 318 mechanical treatments at 240 sites and 251 chemical treatments at 157 sites; and carried out treatment monitoring on 77 sites, according to the organization’s annual report, released earlier this month.

“It was definitely a year where we had to sort of pivot and think about how we were going to deliver our programs in a pandemic year,” Greenberg said. “Normally, with education and outreach it’s in-person and through events like the community weed pull or in-person training. That was the side of our program that really needed to adapt and change.”

To that end, many of the educational programs moved online. “It’s something we’ve wanted to do for awhile, but we haven’t had the capacity to do it in busy field seasons,” said Greenberg. “Thanks to different wage subsidies—plus our funding we accessed from applying in previous years—we were fully staffed.”

Likewise, after a pause in the spring to figure out new protocols, they were able to assemble fieldwork staff for the summer.

“Normally we would do a lot of private land treatments, but [last] year we focused

and Quagga Mussels—which SSISC has monitored for at three local lakes last year, taking 25 samples (all of which were negative)—and goldfish and koi, which have been found in Pinecrest Lake, Millars Pond, Alta Lake, the River of Golden Dreams, Jordan Creek, and One Mile Lake.

A new project for 2021 is monitoring Howe Sound for European Green Crab, which were initially found on the West Coast of Vancouver Island before they travelled to the southern tip and to some Gulf Islands.

“There’s a high concern [the crabs] might make [their] way into Howe Sound,” Greenberg said. “We’re going to do test trapping with [Fisheries and Oceans Canada] to set up the first phase of a volunteer program where people can check traps for European Green Crab, starting with around eight volunteers for this year. It’s a new program, which is really exciting.”

Meanwhile, the organization is also getting ready to staff up again for summer positions.

To keep up to date with that, as well as find out more about the organization’s April AGM and future projects, sign up for its newsletter at ssisc.ca or follow it on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter. n

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The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District has prepared the 2021 parcel tax rolls. The parcel tax roll lists the parcels eligible to be taxed for each of the below noted services in 2021.

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PEMBERTON NORTH WATER PINECREST SEWER PINECREST WATER WALKERVILLE DYKING WHITECAP BEAR CREEK FLOOD PROT.

This is an annual process to review the rolls to ensure they are correct.

Owners of properties located in the above service areas may view the roll at the Regional District office during regular office hours.

Property owners may request an amendment to the roll only with respect to their own property and only for the following reasons: 1. there is an error or omission respecting a name or address on the roll.

2. there is an error or omission respecting the inclusion of a parcel.

3. an exemption has been improperly allowed or disallowed.

Requests for an amendment to the parcel tax roll must be in writing and received at the address below no later than Friday, February 26, 2021 at 4:30 pm.

Suzanne Lafrance, Director of Finance Squamish-Lillooet Regional District PO Box 219, 1350 Aster Street, Pemberton, BC V0N 2L0 Fax: 604-894-6526 Phone: 604-894-6371 ext. 233 Email: slafrance@slrd.bc.ca

VILLAGE OF LIONS BAY PARCEL TAX ROLL REVIEW TAKE NOTICE that the Parcel Tax Roll Review Panel will sit at 7 pm on Thursday, March 11, 2021 in the Council Chambers at the Municipal Hall, located at 400 Centre Road in Lions Bay, and via electronic video conference on Zoom (details at www.lionsbay.ca), to consider eligible complaints in relation to Kelvin Grove Wastewater Treatment Plant Parcel Tax Bylaw No. 586, 2021. The parcel tax roll for this service is available for inspection at the Village Office at 400 Centre Road in Lions Bay during the office hours of 10 am to 4 pm on weekdays. Owners may request that their address or other personal information be omitted from or obscured on the parcel tax roll.

Valid complaints may be made on one or more of the following grounds only: • there is an error or omission respecting a name or address on the parcel tax roll; • there is an error or omission respecting the inclusion of a parcel; • an exemption has been improperly allowed or disallowed.

To be considered by the Review Panel, a complaint must be in writing, received by the Municipality at the Office location on this notice, or via mail to Box 141, 400 Centre Rd, Lions Bay, BC, V0N 2E0 or via email to finance@ lionsbay.ca no later than 7:00 p.m. Tuesday, March 9, 2021, and must: (a) (b) (c) (d)

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Pemberton mountain-biking staple honoured PORCA PRESIDENT IAN KRUGER, ALSO A LOCAL NURSE, PART OF MP’S UNSUNG CHAMPIONS LIST

BY DAN FALLOON WHEN IAN KRUGER found out he was set to be honoured by West VancouverSunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country MP Patrick Weiler, he was appreciative but admittedly a little overwhelmed in the moment to truly soak it in.

The Pemberton Off-Road Cycling Association (PORCA) president and local nurse was one of 12 individuals, as well as one organization, that were recognized as part of Weiler’s Unsung Champions Awards last month.

“I was pretty surprised. It was not something that I knew I’d been nominated for,” Kruger told Pique.

Kruger was unable to attend a virtual reception for honourees, including West Vancouver resident and Whistler Mountain Ski Club member Bear Yeung, who launched a fundraising campaign for a family injured in a multi-vehicle accident on the Sea to Sky on the Labour Day weekend. He has, however, received a certificate from Weiler’s office to mark the occasion.

On its Facebook page, PORCA recounted Kruger’s contributions to the sport locally.

“He has given years of volunteer service to Pemberton through trail maintenance, creating events like the Pemberton Enduro and PNAR [Pemberton Numerical Assessment

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of Radness] as well as being a respected voice in the mountain biking community,” the post reads. “It is through Ian’s leadership, vision and guidance that PORCA has been able to grow and attract like minded passionate community members that believe in giving back and serving others.”

THE VOLUNTEER POOL Having worked at the Pemberton Health Centre for a dozen years while also balancing PORCA commitments since founding the group in 2016, Kruger has a handle on

large pool of volunteers in Pemberton and credits role models like the late Shirley Henry and Jan Naylor for laying the groundwork for giving back in town.

Kruger added that hiring Bree Thorlakson as executive director has been “a real godsend” and has helped take some of the responsibilities off his plate.

With a major part of PORCA’s outreach coming in the form of events, the pandemic has thrown a curveball, but Kruger credited Thorlakson for adapting to the new realities.

“She’s done a great job of figuring out opportunities that we can do during the

“I was pretty surprised. It was not something that I knew I’d been nominated for.”

- IAN KRUGER

making everything work, in no small part thanks to those around him.

“On some level, maybe a subconscious level, it’s a bit stressful at times, but I’m lucky in that I have a supportive partner and in terms of the organizations, I also have really good fellow directors and community members,” he said. “It does wax and wane.

Certain times of the year are busier in terms of planning and other times of year are busier in terms of running the actual events and sometimes it’s not quite as busy.”

Kruger considers himself just one of a

pandemic,” he said. “We’ve been really fortunate that we’ve been able to continue to run our Women’s Bike Club night. We were lucky that we were able to do a chooseyour-own adventure event. And Bree did a great job putting together a Halloween event for kids that was socially distanced.”

Looking ahead to 2021, Kruger acknowledges that with the coronavirus situation dragging on, it could be a tougher summer for PORCA than it was even last year.

“We went in with a bunch of stoke and a bunch of members,” he said. “It’s tougher this

year to generate the stoke and the membership.

“The uncertainty of it means that it’s challenging for the board and it’s also challenging for our potential members.

“We had some good momentum going into 2020 and the pandemic has cut a lot of that momentum.”

CARING FOR OTHERS At the health centre, where he works as an emergency room nurse, Kruger said there have been new hurdles along the way throughout the pandemic.

“It’s been a challenge for our team because we are seeing more volume through the [emergency room] just because of understandable barriers or challenges for people to get in to see their primary care physician,” he said. “There’s that extra volume and then there’s the added stress of PPE [personal protective equipment], people who are potentially COVID-positive.

“It’s the little things that add up.”

Weiler said in a statement that he created the Unsung Champions program to honour volunteers in the constituency who are giving back during the health crisis.

“We opened up submissions in August 2020 with the criteria that the individual or group nominated deserved recognition for their volunteer contributions to the community or country, or as front-line workers and volunteers during the COVID19 pandemic,” the statement read.

Weiler added that there will be another intake of nominations later this year, with winners recognized next January. n

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Pemberton council weighs present, future DURING SECOND BUDGET SESSION, CONCERNS ARISE THAT LOW TAX RATES NOW COULD MEAN BIG INCREASES LATER

BY DAN FALLOON VILLAGE OF PEMBERTON (VOP) council will bounce around tax increases of up to eight per cent at its third and final budget session in early March.

In the second session, held during its Committee of the Whole meeting on Feb. 16, some members and Mayor Mike Richman expressed concern that a second consecutive year with a low tax rate could leave taxpayers scrambling in 2022 and beyond.

The draft budget started out with a modest 1.8-per-cent tax rate increase, but Manager of Finance and Administration Lena Martin will return with the implications of two-, four-, six- and eight-per-cent increases at the March 2 Committee of the Whole meeting, which is the third and final budget session.

The initial 1.8-per-cent tax increase relies strongly on reallocating nearly $207,000 in road reserves into operational reserves. It should be noted that the VOP has more than $700,000 in COVID-19 Safe Restart Grant for Local Governments available for eligible costs.

“We will definitely continue to look for COVID Recovery Grant-eligible projects throughout the year and possibly into 2022 depending on the parameters of the grant we have,” Martin said.

With an asset-management review on the horizon that will all but certainly recommend socking away more money, not less, for future costs, it’s not an ideal time to be dipping into reserves, Martin reasoned, anticipating rises to such costs as water and sewer rates.

“It will be, I’m sure, a large increase to what we’re used to paying,” Martin said.

“COVID obviously put us in a big spin where we’re looking at keeping our budgets tight for last year and this year. It’s not something we can continue to do.”

AN EYE ON THE FUTURE Keeping a zero-per-cent increase in the uncertainty of the emerging pandemic made sense last spring, Richman recalled, but now a year in and with some reflection, there must be an eye to the future as well.

“As much as I want to continue protecting our taxpayers right now, I also want to make sure we don’t set ourselves up so that next year or the year after that, our taxpayers are going to get hit really hard,” he said.

Richman also noted that in 2020 and in the 2021 draft, the proposed increase lags behind the consumer price index rate, with Martin later noting that only once in the past five years has the tax rate increased by more than five per cent. It becomes less and less feasible as operating costs rise

and the province downloads more costs and responsibilities onto municipalities, Richman added.

“We’re providing essentially the same services for a greater population with essentially a lower budget,” he said.

After reviewing each department’s projects over the course of two meetings, Richman opined that the initiatives coming out of the VOP’s pockets are all necessary costs.

“As much as I want to continue protecting our taxpayers right now, I also want to make sure we don’t set ourselves up so that next year ... our taxpayers are going to get hit really hard.”

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“The projects that have come forward for the most part are all being covered by grants of some sort or are all stuff that has been presented to us and I haven’t seen a lot of them that are fluff,” he said. “Pretty much all the projects are pretty crucial or are carryovers from last year.”

In addition to the road reserve reallocation, where the hope is to mostly or completely avoid dipping into that pot, there are a few other proposed reserve taps.

One would be the $160,000 in sewer reserves being assigned to current-year projects, though it’s raised some alarms.

“We’re being put in a position here where, if we had no reserves, we’d be in a deficit situation, which we’re not allowed to do under the community charter,” Councillor Ted Craddock said.

Martin noted that the options to be presented at the March 2 meeting will come with a significant focus on keeping the reserves healthy while also reiterating that, if the dire situation in the present takes precedence, it’s possible to shoulder it.

“This year, we can accommodate a low tax rate in a rare year like this that it happens,” she said. “We do have some reserves that we have set aside that can support the budget for one year on a temporary basis.” n

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2021 Budget Info Sessions

Take part in the Budget Process What to Expect

Ways to Have Your Say Via Zoom: A�end the Public Budget Info Session

You are invited to a�end the below budget sessions to learn about the Village of Pemberton’s 2021 projects and expenditures. At these sessions, the Commi�ee of the Whole will be considering and discussing budget informa�on presented by Staff.

The Budget Info Session on Tuesday, March 16th, will include a Staff presenta�on followed by public ques�on �me. The presenta�on will be available the next day at pemberton.ca.

Tuesday, March 16th @ 9am.

Budget Session Dates

Visit pemberton.ca for Zoom mee�ng details.

Budget Session #1

In Wri�ng:

2021 Opera�ng Budgets, Capital, and Project Budgets 1st Dra� Now available at pemberton.ca/public/download/files/173736 Budget Session #2

Email your Comments

Revised Opera�ng, Project and Capital Expenses Now available at pemberton.ca/public/download/files/174741

All input will be summarized and addressed at the Budget Info Session on March 16th.

2021 Tax Implica�ons Tuesday, March 2nd, 2021 @ 2:30pm | Via Zoom

to budget@pemberton.ca prior to Thursday, March 11th. Budget Session #3 (During Commi�ee of the Whole Mee�ng)

Public Budget Info Session | 2020 Review (During Regular Council Mee�ng) Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 @ 9am | Via Zoom Budget Session #4 (During Commi�ee of the Whole Mee�ng) Final Tax Implica�ons of 2021 Revised Budget Tuesday, March 16th, 2021 @ 1pm | Via Zoom

Contract Cleaning (Janitorial) Service Pemberton and District Community Centre and Youth/Seniors Centre

The Village of Pemberton is requesting proposals from qualified individuals or companies for the supply of cleaning (janitorial) services to the Village for the following facilities: Pemberton & District Community Centre and the Youth / Seniors Centre. The contract associated with each facility is for a one-year term commencing on April 1, 2021 and ending on March 31, 2022 Submissions must be received by the Village of Pemberton no later than 2:00pm PST on Monday March 8, 2021.

Proposals may be submitted via email to cburns@pemberton.ca or in hard copy form to: Village of Pemberton, Box 104, 7390 Cottonwood Street, Pemberton BC, V0N 2L0 The Request for Proposals document can be downloaded by visiting pemberton.ca/public/download/files/174943 All inquiries to be directed to: Christine Burns, Recreation Services Manager Phone: 604.894.2340 Email: cburns@pemberton.ca

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SCIENCE MATTERS

Faulty economic thinking makes destroying nature profitable EVERYTHING WE NEED to survive— food, water, air, shelter—comes from nature, of which we are a part. Fuelled by the sun’s energy, this planet is amazing in its ability to replenish and recycle the basic elements of life.

Now people are outpacing Earth’s ability to maintain these essential services.

Our economic systems not only ignore this

BY DAVID SUZUKI unsustainable plunder, they encourage it. That’s led to a 70-per-cent decline in mammal, bird, fish, reptile and amphibian populations over the past 50 years. One million plant and animal species—onequarter of the global total—now face extinction.

A big part of the problem is that destroying nature is more profitable than protecting it, and tools such as gross domestic product are not fit for assessing real economic health. GDP is “based on a faulty application of economics,” according to an independent review on the economics of biodiversity by University of Cambridge professor Sir Partha Dasgupta.

“Truly sustainable economic growth and development means recognising that our long-term prosperity relies on rebalancing our demand of Nature’s goods and services with its capacity to supply them,” Dasgupta argues. The 600-page report, commissioned by the U.K. treasury to help set the agenda for its government’s 25-year environment plan, notes it would take at least 1.6 Earths to maintain our current lifestyles.

GDP measures production but does not account for damage to or loss of essential natural services. Capital produced by industrial development is measured as positive, but the consequent loss of natural systems that absorb carbon, purify water and air, provide habitat for pollinators, prevent soil erosion and more aren’t counted, regardless of the costs to everything from human health to water and food supplies.

Between 1992 and 2014, produced capital per person doubled, but “natural capital” stock per person declined by nearly 40 per cent, according to the University of Cambridge. GDP measures that as “positive growth,” indicating a thriving economy.

Because of this outdated and backwards economic paradigm, governments worldwide subsidize activities that damage nature by at least US$6 trillion a year.

This puts economies, livelihoods and well-being at risk. “Nature is our home,” Dasgupta says. “Good economics demands we manage it better.”

The report explains that, along with losing biodiversity and increasing climate change risks, if we continue to degrade and destroy natural habitats, we’ll face further and even worse pandemics, as most new disease outbreaks, including COVID-19, are “zoonotic.” That is, as we encroach on habitat, pathogens jump from other animals to humans.

The report outlines three areas where transformative action is needed. First, we must reduce our demands so they don’t exceed nature’s ability to continue to supply them. This means increasing natural services by protecting and restoring natural areas, and reducing harmful forms of consumption, such as meat-heavy diets.

The second area is one that we’ve been writing about for some time: adopting better ways to measure economic success. Various ideas are being considered around the world, including “doughnut economics,” developed by Kate Raworth and the “gross national happiness” index promoted by the Kingdom of Bhutan.

Dasgupta argues that national accounting must include natural capital, but also human health, knowledge, skills and community.

The third area for change is to transform institutions and systems like finance and education to enable and sustain the necessary changes. This means ensuring that money flows to enhancing rather than degrading nature. It also means nature studies must be included in education at all levels.

“If we care about our common future and the common future of our descendants, we should all in part be naturalists,” Dasgupta writes.

To achieve the transformation, supranational institutions must be developed to protect public goods like rainforests and oceans and to ensure that poorer countries are able to protect ecosystems without suffering economic losses. Such transformative change would cost far less than delaying.

The economic systems we developed a relatively short time ago have wreaked havoc with the natural systems on which our health and lives depend. Gauging our economic success on constant growth, on endless cycles of work, production and excess consumption, has led to biodiversity loss, disease outbreaks, pollution, climate disruption and greater divides between rich and poor.

Change is not only possible, it’s absolutely necessary.

David Suzuki is a scientist, broadcaster, author and co-founder of the David Suzuki Foundation. Written with contributions from David Suzuki Foundation Senior Writer and Editor Ian Hanington. ■

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Whistler 101: What do I know?

THE FIRST THING I realized working on Whistler 101—the five-episode video series produced by the RMOW in collaboration with the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre, Whistler Museum, Whistler Naturalists, and Arts Whistler—was how much there was to learn about this place. Whether concerning Whistler’s physical environment, biological

BY LESLIE ANTHONY abundance, those who hunted and gathered here for millennia, recent arrivals who turned it into a toursitc titan, or the creative endeavours of all, there’s no shortage of fodder for the mind: from fundamentals to esoterica, from big ideas to trivia, and plenty of—as ’90s talk-show host Arsenio Hall used to opine—things that make you go Hmmm…

A community celebration, the series utilizes local knowledge to explore five diverse—but interconnected—topics: Geodiversity, Biodiversity, Indigenous Peoples, History & Heritage, and The Arts. Spearheaded by RMOW Manager of Cultural Planning and Development John Rae, who developed the program’s vision, the series aims to instill a sense of belonging, as well as a responsibility to our surroundings, our neighbours, our history, and our ways of expression. Rae’s hope is that the series not only raises community awareness, knowledge and enthusiasm, but also inculcates an ambassadorial will to share notions of stewardship with visitors.

CLASS IS IN SESSION The Whistler 101 series is available online now.

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The series of in-person TED Talkmeets-slideshows would have launched last April at Maury Young Arts Centre, but the pandemic scuttled plans for in-person events indefinitely, resulting in a total revamp to a digital format. Having worked on developing the original versions, I took on responsibility to condense the hour-long presentations into 15-20-minute videos and direct the filming. Knee-deep in helping presenters package their topics, I quickly realized how much information there was to cull. On the other hand, Whistler 101 was never meant to be comprehensive, only informative and entertaining to the point of stimulating the curiosity of viewers who wanted to know more. Like, say, putting up a billboard over a rabbit-hole. With the hard work of presenters, and top-notch post-production by the team at Switchback Entertainment bringing a consistent look and polish to the visual end, the job was a pleasure filled with fascinating revelations.

Keeping to the connectedness theme, episodes were released in a logical order such that each underpinned the next, beginning with the unfathomable sweep of deep time to more recent pursuits: Geodiversity; Biodiversity; Indigenous Peoples; History & Heritage; The Arts can be read as the land, the life it supports, first human inhabitants, colonists, how all interpret the land and our place in it.

Connectedness isn’t a new idea. The concept of geodiversity being linked to biodiversity, for instance, goes back to German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt. “The philosophical study of nature endeavors to connect the present with the past,” he wrote in his 1858 epic, Cosmos: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe. “In considering physical phenomena… we find its noblest and most

important result to be a knowledge of the chain of connection, by which all natural forces are linked together, and made mutually dependent upon each other.”

Alex was contemporary to Charles Darwin, who also banged the interconnectedness drum, channeling early geologist Charles Lyell’s “Uniformitarianism”—the controversial notion that laws and processes behind geological phenomena have been the same throughout time. In other words, Lyell viewed Earth’s history as vast and directionless, a complimentary overview uploaded by Darwin to his nascent theory of biological evolution. Echoing this, the episodes take an inverted pyramid approach, starting with a very wide-angle view before narrowing to local context.

I learned plenty from each, whether about geohazard research at Mt. Meager (Geodiversity), or the Valley, Snow Zone and No-snow Zones that define where things live on our mountains (Biodioversity). With Indigenous Peoples, my revelations deepened to seeing the wide view of contemporary Indigenous life through two lenses—the profound diversity of First Nations communities and cultures across Canada and in B.C., and ongoing intergenerational trauma resulting from colonial history—in particular the legacy of Residential Schools. These are two crucial contexts to absorb before considering the traditions of the Squamish Nation and Lil’wat Nation and their unique shared territory in which Whistler lies.

As per oral history, an ancient sharing agreement basically stated that when you could see Black Tusk you knew you were in a shared territory… but when the water changed directions you were in someone else’s. It wasn’t lost on me that this was

a geological premise, based both on the glacio-volcanic feature of the Black Tusk (t’ak’t’ak mu’yin tl’a in7in’a’xe7en in the Squamish language, “Landing Place of the Thunderbird”) and the unique hydrology of Whistler; its chain of lakes, remnants of glacial-scoured meltwater basins, originally flowed both north and south from Alta Lake. As we learn in the video, Spo7ez, a shared trading village that once existed near the junction of Rubble Creek and the Cheakamus River, is at the core of why the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre exists under a more contemporary agreement.

The Pemberton Trail, a first formal incursion by colonial settlers, followed First Nations trading routes from Howe Sound to Lillooet in hopes of finding a better way to the goldfields (geology again!) of the Interior. When that didn’t pan out (ha ha) it was thought cattle might be driven down it from the Interior to the sea. The trail of course, proved too rough for such folly, but the sprinkling of hunters and fishers who lodged along the trail to avail themselves of the valley’s biodiverse resources would be responsible—along with the arrival of a railway and logging—for Whistler’s eventual appeal as a townsite and tourist destination. An identity originally based around the draw of lakes that later turned to the peaks with an attendant effect on local art—not only a circling back to deep time, but something that genuinely makes you go Hmmm…

You can check out the series here: whistler. ca/culture-recreation/arts-nature-heritage/ whistler-heritage/Whistler-101.

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

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WAITIN G GA with hundreds still waiting for affordable housing in Whistler, will demand ever be

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ME satisfied?

Like hundreds of others, Javier Montava put his time in on the Whistler Housing Authority (WHA) waitlist—more than four years, by his count, when he reached out to Pique last year.

At that time, Montava raised a number of questions that would be familiar to anyone languishing on the WHA waitlists: are people somehow “cheating” the lists? Are ineligible people living in WHA units? Is preferential placement being given to WHA staff?

Like many who raise these queries, Montava’s line of questioning was backed up by mostly anecdotal evidence—but when an email update from the WHA inexplicably bumped him from 229 on the housing waitlist to 236, he was in shock.

“My face was epic—how?” Montava wrote in an email to Pique.

“How is it possible that people are going backwards?”

When he reached out to WHA, he was informed there was a “slight discrepancy” in the waitlist positions, and that positions may be off by up to 20 spots.

In Montava’s view, the discrepancy was proof of one of two things: preferential treatment or time travel.

But the real explanation is more benign, according to WHA general manager Marla Zucht. The discrepancies in the list Montava pointed out were due to movement associated with two new WHA buildings coming online in late 2019, Zucht says.

In tenanting those buildings, the WHA went through its waitlist to gauge interest, a process that resulted in about 20 applicants being flagged for removal from the list.

“They just hadn’t got removed at that period of time,” Zucht says, adding that when the names were eventually removed, it resulted in movement on the lists.

In the fall of 2020, Montava was finally offered a WHA unit in Cheakamus Crossing, which he accepted. But like many Whistlerites, he still feels the local housing authority could do with some improvement.

“I still think the system is a mess,” he says. “No transparency and nonsense rules.”

WAITING TO EXHALE While Zucht has been WHA’s general manager since 2005, she’s worked with the organization for more than 20 years.

It’s safe to say the local housing authority has evolved in that time. “[When I started], the waitlist was a paper document on a bulletin board,” she says with a laugh.

“I’m not even sure the general manager had a computer when I started at the housing authority.”

By Zucht’s recollection, there were about 100 names on that paper list—a far cry from the 1,200-plus now listed for rentals.

With that many people searching for housing, questions and criticisms like Montava’s do arise from time to time at the WHA offices.

For the most part, when people reach out and get a better understanding of how the waitlists actually work, they’re satisfied, Zucht says.

But “there is nothing arbitrary” about the lists.

“People don’t get skipped over for somebody else. I mean, that just doesn’t happen. There’s no priority,” Zucht says.

It could conceivably happen if someone in a wheelchair needed an accessible WHA unit, but even that is rare, she adds.

“If they’re just putting their application in, and they think they’re signing up for just one list, then they’re probably just not appreciating how that list distils down with the various different project types,” she says.

“So I really do believe once people call and sit down with us, or we go through it on the phone, then they understand it.”

But a WHA waitlist (rental or purchase) is not just one unified list—it’s “myriad” different lists sorted by project type and building.

“It is one master waitlist, but within that waitlist, it’s broken down by various projects, and then various projects each have one-bedroom, two-bedroom, three-bedroom studios,” Zucht says, adding that your position on the master list is based on when you apply.

“So you might be No. 900 on the master waitlist, but then if you’ve

signed up for Seppos or Lorimer or Beaver Flats or Chiyakmesh, and a one-bedroom or a studio or a three-bedroom, you’re going to have rankings on each of those projects,” she explains.

“So that’s where it kind of distils down.”

When a property becomes available, the WHA starts at the top of the master list and works its way down, using applicants’ preferences as a filter.

“We go down the list by whoever is highest on the list,” Zucht says.

“And then it will just depend on if you are signed up for that particular unit type that has come up for rent or for sale.”

But securing affordable housing through the WHA is not always a passive exercise—residents have to stay engaged, and not be afraid to advocate for themselves if necessary.

Case in point: In researching this feature, I came across my own WHA application, signed and submitted Feb. 26, 2016. Surely I am at the very top of the list after nearly five years?

Hardly. According to Zucht, my name was culled from the list by the fall of 2017, after I neglected to respond to a confirmation email.

Oops.

MAKING A LIST, CHECKING IT TWICE Whistler Councillor Jen Ford joined the WHA board of directors as a non-voting member in 2012, and now serves as chair.

“I was on the waitlist, and we just had so many friends, so many people that were so invested in the WHA, and I really wanted to be a part of the solution,” Ford says, of what made her want to join.

“I wanted to be involved in the community, and it felt like a pretty good place for me to get involved.”

Ford and her husband were able to lock down their own WHA unit in April 2017, after coming in as the second offer on four different occasions.

“We pretty much put in an offer sight unseen,” she says.

Having experienced both sides of the waitlist—the waiting and administrating—Ford has a unique insight into the process.

“It’s not black and white, but it’s very, very fair,” she notes.

“There’s lots of urban legends about how it works, and so that unfortunately compounds this notion that there is preference … I do know from having worked with this team for so long, that it is very fair, and it just doesn’t always work for people’s circumstances.”

Like Zucht, Ford ascribed some of the confusion to the various “sublists” contained within the WHA’s master list.

“So when people see, ‘Well. I haven’t moved on this list,’ well, maybe no two-bedroom unit in Millar’s Ridge has sold, and so you’ve stayed static on that list. And so that’s where it gets really fuzzy and very frustrating for people.”

As of February 2021, the WHA purchase waitlist had 881 names on it, representing 1,323 employees (though with the WHA’s annual confirmation process, about 10 per cent of those will be removed, Zucht says).

The WHA processed 96 new purchase waitlist applications in 2020, and tallied 26 resales of price and occupancy restricted homes.

“The median wait time for a purchase waitlist member to buy through the WHA in 2020 was approximately four years,” Zucht says.

“In 2020, we saw trickle-down in over one-third of resales where, for example, a WHA property was purchased by an existing WHA owner resulting in another WHA sale to occur, a WHA tenant purchased in the WHA ownership inventory, or tenants of an employee restricted suite purchased in the WHA ownership inventory.”

On the rental side, there are close to 1,300 applicants on the waitlist, though a February confirmation process will likely cull about 20 per cent of the names, Zucht says.

In 2020, 17 rental properties turned over to waitlisters, with a median wait time of about three years, Zucht said.

There is about 20- to 25-per-cent overlap between the rental and purchase waitlists, she adds.

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IF YOU BUILD IT… The WHA has been busy as ever in recent years, adding 116 new rental units (and 275 beds) across four buildings since 2018.

With the Resort Municipality of Whistler forging ahead on development of Cheakamus Crossing Phase 2 (with potential for another 295 units in the coming years), will the waitlist soon be satiated?

“No,” Ford says. “Because we’ve done this wonderful job of creating this amazing place to live, and there’s no shortage of people that want to live here.”

Fair enough.

That said, Ford still believes Cheakamus Phase 2, and other recent WHA projects, have had an impact on availability.

“Is it enough, and is it quick enough? Definitely not,” she says.

“But you don’t want to make bad decisions because of one thing or another. You want to make sure that they’re going to be affordable, and so you have to get the right grants in place, you have to make sure that the right product is available.”

While at first glance the WHA waitlist is daunting, “I think we’ve learned that over the years, the list, although it’s long, it doesn’t necessarily indicate the urgency of it,” Zucht says.

“You know, it’s not 1,200 people that are urgently looking for housing. If you put yourself on the waitlist, you’re creating an opportunity for yourself down the road.”

Whistler has long had a goal of housing 75 per cent of its workforce locally, and thanks largely to the WHA, has been able to meet it consistently.

But, of course, the waitlists are never satisfied.

“We bring on the new buildings, we tenant them, and people come off the waitlist, and then [new applicants] just add back on to it. So I wouldn’t say we’ve had a substantial impact [on the length of

[for applicants],” she says.

The new system will allow rental waitlisters to log in and view their status or manage their property preferences, she adds.

All existing waitlist data will be backed up and kept secure “until we are abundantly, absolutely clear” that all is working on the new system, Zucht says.

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PATIENCE, GRASSHOPPER If you’ve got questions about the WHA and its waitlists, or your place on them, the best thing you can do is ask.

“I think that it’s super important to advocate for yourself, and work with the WHA staff … All of the staff that we have at the WHA have been there for a long time, and they want this to be as fair and transparent as possible,” Ford says.

“Go straight to the source. Don’t talk to your friend of a friend who knows a guy that knew a guy, right?

“I think that the best messaging that we can send out about questions [related to discrepancies] are to go straight to the source, and to clear it up rather than assuming that there is something nefarious going on, because it’s certainly not the case.”

The other important messaging out of the WHA? Patience.

“We do have a regular turnover of units … and then when we’re bringing on these new projects, the opportunities are there to move in, so it’s just patience,” Zucht says.

“It’s not a lottery system in that regard, so it’s not a matter of if, it’s just a matter of when, and if you’re on the waitlist and your information is still up to date and accurate, you will get contacted.”

For Hannyliz Villafuerte, who moved to Whistler from the Philippines in 2008 and secured her first WHA unit in 2011, the waiting game for a two-bedroom rental lasted 10 years.

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“That’s where the majority of tenants come from, is market rentals, so they’re coming out of market and into what we hope is a more affordable and stable housing arrangement for them,” Zucht says.

“But the waitlists continue to be long and strong.”

The WHA is also in the process of implementing new property management software called Arcori PM, which came highly recommended by both BC Housing and the BC Non-Profit Housing Association, Zucht says.

“We are expecting this new property and information management software will provide more secure and improved operating capacity for our staff, and a more intuitive user interface

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Having a rent-controlled WHA unit “really helped” throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Villafuerte says.

“I’m really happy, but at the same time, I’m also nervous when everything goes back to normal,” she says, noting that the rent in her new unit is $900 more than what she pays now.

“But I guess I’ll cross that bridge when I get there.”

Villafuerte (who is also on the WHA’s purchase waitlist— somewhere in the 300 to 500 range, she estimates) offers advice for her fellow waitlisters similar to Zucht’s.

“I would just say to wait patiently. It will come,” she says.

“It took me 10 years to wait for the right place for me, but I still believe that everything works out for your good.” ■

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BY DAN FALLOON THERE’S JUST SOMETHING about Deer Valley, Utah for Brenden Kelly.

A year after setting a new then-best FIS World Cup placement of seventh in the dual moguls at the 2002 Olympic site, the Pemberton moguls skier did it again, taking a fifth-place finish in the same event on Feb. 5.

The season, though thinner than normal, has been arguably Kelly’s most consistent yet as he’s placed in the top 20 each time out, finishing 13th in single moguls at Ruka, Finland, placing 19th in singles and 12th in dual at Idre Fjäll, Sweden before taking 13th in singles and fifth in dual at Deer Valley. His results have been strong enough to qualify for the FIS World Ski Championships, which run at Almaty, Kazakhstan from March 8 to 11.

“The contests have been really normal,” he said. “It’s always the same kind of a program: it’s training, training, competing, and as far as that, our coaching staff and the rest of the team and myself has been business as usual.”

As the COVID-19 pandemic has continued, Kelly told Pique he has felt “protected” throughout the season as he’s

CLIMBING KELLY Pemberton’s Brenden Kelly, shown during training, set a new FIS World Cup high with a fifth-place finish in dual moguls at Deer Valley, Utah earlier this month.

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focused on his personal improvement in the sport.

“Everything has just been so smooth,” he said. “All of the travel so far has been super easy as far as getting tests before we travel and getting into countries.

“It didn’t really feel much different, other than the quarantines.”

Kelly estimated he’s been quarantined for roughly two months’ time during the season.

the need for a rhythm.

“I try not to think too much about building momentum because that sort of implies that you need something going into the next event and I always look at every event as a new opportunity,” he said.

“With the changing of events, we lose some opportunities and we gain some, but to me, it’s just about maximizing what I can do when the events are happening.”

“It didn’t really feel much different, other than the quarantines.”

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OH, DEER

The current period is the biggest lull between events after contests in Calgary and Tazawako, Japan were cancelled. The Krasnoyarsk, Russia event, meanwhile, was moved to Almaty and will run following the championships.

“You’re always in a bit of a state of uncertainty but when the event does happen and you are there, it feels great and it feels pretty normal,” Kelly said from Colorado, where he’s currently training before heading back to Europe next week.

In terms of his mindset, Kelly was well prepared for the shifting schedule as he takes an event as it is and attempts to avoid

Going back to Kelly’s most recent event, Feb. 4 and 5 in Utah, he heaped praise on the course, particularly enjoying the feeling he gets while on it.

“It’s such a fun course. It has a longer middle section than most other courses and for duals, I think for me, that really just allows me to relax a little bit more,” he said of Deer Valley. “I’m not going to have to slow down so early.

“I have lots of time to push my limit and regain control before the bottom jump.”

In recent years, Kelly’s dual placements have tended to be stronger than his singles showings. With its head-to-head format,

it’s a different experience, as Kelly focuses on the entirety of the run rather than details, which he said allows for smoother flow. This is one element he’s attempting to harness in the singles events without someone dropping beside him.

“In dual, you really quit trying to be so perfect,” he said. “You just try to be fast, try to keep everything as tight as you can but roll with the punches.

“You really don’t dwell on those past errors because anything can happen further down the course for either of the athletes.”

While there were spectators allowed in Utah, as Deer Valley remained open to the public, it was a smaller, more muted event than in 2020 without the bells and whistles of a VIP section.

While last year’s excellence was memorable for Kelly, he stressed that it’s ultimately his skiing that he hopes sticks around in his mind.

LOOKING AHEAD Kelly is feeling confident going into World Championships, which he last attended at Deer Valley in 2019, just before his breakout last year and consistency this year.

Kelly said this time he trusts his own abilities more and knows his standard is strong.

“I feel really lucky and really honoured to be invited to the World Championships for the second time in my career,” he said.

“That’s what I’m going to bring to World Championships this time, a different level of confidence and a different level of connectedness with myself and my skiing.” n

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P’ayak moving online for 2021 SPORTS BRIEFS: PEIFFER OFF TO BIATHLON JUNIOR WORLDS

BY DAN FALLOON THE COAST OUTDOORS P’ayakentsut was one of Whistler’s last events to be held in 2020, but nearly a year later, it, too, has been impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Organizers announced that this year’s loppet, normally an extravaganza at Whistler Olympic Park, will occur as a virtual event rather than in-person for 2021.

Chief of race Sherryl Yeager explained that the team has seen restrictions tighten and loosen over the past 12 or so months, but saw the writing on the wall as early as the fall.

Yeager said organizers had sent surveys to participants and volunteers to gauge their level of comfort when case counts were trending somewhat positively earlier in 2020 before the province instituted stronger rules.

“We were considering doing interval starts, really staggered start times. We were thinking of all sorts of ways we could do it in compliance with the COVID regulations, but once a lot of adult recreational sport [started] getting shut down—even though crosscountry is a really safe activity,” Yeager told Pique. “We just couldn’t do an event and be in compliance with the guidelines.”

Ultimately, organizers opted for a virtual event to run from March 6 to 21.

Instead of focusing on speed, given that participants may join in from wherever they are, prizing will be based on distance.

“You need to ski in compliance with the conditions and the rules at the site that you’re at,” Yeager stressed.

The P’ayak added a 25-kilometre option this year to inspire those on the way up to reach for the full 50-km distance in 2022.

“If people have been thinking about skiing the 50, this year they can ski the 25,” Yeager said. “Then, hopefully, they decide they can do that twice next year.”

Shifting online meant changes behind the scenes, everything from rejigging registration processes and seeing its platform, Zone 4, adapt to allow participants to upload their own results with options such as Garmin devices or the Strava app.

There were roughly 100 registrations in the first week and Yeager hopes to see that at least triple.

“I would love it if we got a whole bunch of new people,” she said, noting that firsttimers will receive a P’ayak toque.

Registration is $15 at payak.ca.

PEIFFER OFF TO BIATHLON JUNIOR WORLDS Whistler will be well represented when the International Biathlon Union Youth/ Junior World Championships kicks off in Obertilliach, Austria this weekend.

Heading the list is Whistler product Benita Peiffer, who now lives in Canmore, Alta. Peiffer qualified for the FIS Junior and U23 World Ski Championships for crosscountry in December, but decided to forgo her spot to buy herself a bit more time in her recovery from a torn ACL and meniscus.

Peiffer, who was previously part of the Whistler Nordic Development Centre, will be joined by two of the program’s current athletes and two fellow alums.

Ryan Elden and Logan Pletz are currently part of the WNDC, while Gillian Gowling and Squamish’s Larissa Black are the past participants who will be taking part.

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FREERIDER PEIFFER REBOUNDS IN ANDORRA After a middling finish in the Freeride World Tour season opener, Whistler Freeride Club alum Tom Peiffer cracked the top 10 at the second event in Ordino-Arcalís, Andorra.

In the Feb. 24 contest, Peiffer claimed sixth place in the men’s ski event with an 82.00 tally, while teammate Cooper Bathgate took 13th with a 67.33. American Andrew Pollard bested two Swedes, Kristofer Turdell and Reine Barkered, for top spot.

On the women’s side, Olivia McNeill suffered a fall, but got up and finished her run in fourth with a 35.00. Switzerland’s Elizabeth Gerritzen emerged over France’s Juliette Willmann and American Tracy Chubb.

The trio struggled to put up some high scores in the opener on Feb. 19.

Peiffer (74.00) led the way on the men’s side, posting an 11th-place finish while Bathgate (63.33) took 15th in his tour debut.

American Ross Tester won the competition, also his first, as France’s Maël Ollivier and New Zealand’s Blake Marshall rounded out the podium.

McNeill, meanwhile, was looking confident in her run before losing a ski and finishing tied for seventh. Norway’s Hedvig Wessel topped France’s Juliette Willman and Switzerland’s Maude Besse for the victory.

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The Meadows at Pemberton has been part of the Sunstone family for several years, but is now officially taking on the title.

The golf course recently announced that it will now be known as Sunstone Golf Club.

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EPICURIOUS

Taiwanese Kitchen serves up the real deal TAIWANESE FRIENDS LAUNCH PICKUP AND DELIVERY SERVICE TO SHARE TRADITIONAL CUISINE OF THEIR HOMELAND

BY BRANDON BARRETT FEELING A BIT HOMESICK, ChiaLing Wu went to the Whistler Welcome Centre in the hope of connecting with someone from her native Taiwan. As it often does in small towns, word soon spread, and by the time Wu found herself at the Whistler Multicultural Festival, fellow Taiwanese Eva Wei was already on the lookout for her.

“Eva for some reason knew I was looking for her,” Wu recalled with a laugh. “That’s the first time we met each other.”

First bonding over their shared culture, now the two friends are hoping to share a piece of their homeland with the rest of Whistler through Taiwanese Kitchen, a new pickup and delivery service based in Function Junction.

“Eva and I are both from Taiwan and we realized there’s no Chinese or Taiwanese food culture in Whistler. So we’ve been working on it for more than three months to try to set up a business to share our dishes with everyone,” Wu explained.

Initially hoping to launch a restaurant, sky-high rental rates forced the women to reconsider their options. Eventually, they decided to rent space out of the Chirp Co-Kitchen, behind Home Hardware, three days a week, where they will offer a rotating menu of lunches available for pre-ordered pickup and delivery.

Wu was clear about one thing: This won’t be the watered-down, chickenball and fried-rice cuisine so common in Westernized Chinese kitchen across North America, but will draw on family recipes to offer an authentic taste of Taiwan.

“We will try our best to keep the menu a very Taiwanese style, because all of the dishes we learned from our mothers or from friends working in Taiwan restaurants, and we just kind of steal their recipes,” she said with a laugh.

Taiwanese cuisine is incredibly diverse and heavily influenced by its colonial and migrant history, drawing in particular from Japanese and Chinese culinary traditions. Sometimes grouped into the

TASTE OF TAIWAN Friends Chia-Ling Wu, left, and Eva Wei have launched Taiwanese Kitchen Whistler as a way to share the traditional recipes of their homeland.

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Chinese Southern Fujian style, modern Taiwanese chefs have gone to great lengths to distinguish their kaleidoscopic cuisine from the wider Chinese culinary umbrella, and today, staple dishes like beef noodle soup, braised beef rolled in scallion pancakes, and the increasingly popular gua bao, or pork belly buns, are becoming more recognized in the West

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for their Taiwanese origins. And while the influence of Taiwan’s vibrant snack culture has taken hold in Vancouver, with a growing number of bubble tea and dessert shops dotting the downtown core and outlying suburbs, Whistlerites have gone years without a dedicated Chinese restaurant, let alone a Taiwanese spot, so Wu expects there to be a bit of a learning curve.

“This is one of the questions that we discuss, because people definitely ask what is the difference between Taiwanese food and Chinese food,” she noted. “I would say Taiwanese food is part of Chinese food but not all Chinese food is Taiwanese food.

“Taiwanese food has very diverse seasoning flavours; it’s more like soy sauce, sesame oil, soybean paste, ginger, garlic, and many, many more.”

(Funnily enough, Wu said she often has to explain to people the difference between Taiwan and Thailand, and with food being an easy entry-point to unfamiliar cultures, she’s hopeful her traditional cuisine will help with that education.)

The pair has planned about a dozen dishes to start, including the first-week menu of mapo tofu with rice, a scorchingly spicy dish that Wu said every Taiwanese family has their own version of, homemade black pepper sauce chicken, and a vegetarian black pepper oyster mushroom dish served with noodles or rice.

Diners can expect future dishes like the beloved comfort food Lu rou fan, a simple and hearty bowl of braised pork belly over rice, and the iconic San bei ji, or threecup chicken, so called because the recipe utilizes soy sauce, rice wine and sesame oil.

Each dish is served with two sides in a bento box-style, and can be made into a combo with soup for an additional cost.

Taiwanese Kitchen Whistler is available for pickup on Wednesdays from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Saturdays and Sundays from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Delivery is available anywhere from Function to Alpine during one of three time slots on their operating days: 11:30 a.m. to noon; 12:15 to 12:45 p.m.; and 1 to 1:30 p.m.

Ideally, orders should be placed by midnight the previous day, but same-day orders by phone will also be accepted until 1 p.m.

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Former Whistler athlete featured in Beyond the Break DOCUMENTARY DEBUTING AT VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL FOLLOWS SAM DANNIELS AS HE BUILDS A WAVESKI

BY ALYSSA NOEL WHEN FILMMAKER Missy McIntosh set out to make a documentary about a guy in North Vancouver creating adaptive surfboards—called waveskis—she thought it might lead to a five-minute short.

But after meeting X-Games gold-medal mono skier and sit-ski Paralympian, Sam Danniels, she knew his story demanded more time.

“I think it was just the idea,” she says.

“His personal story is amazing, but the adaptive gear angle really hooked me… Here was this guy who has this amazing story, but I loved his ingenuity and engineering ability. He kind of had to take it on right after his injury—even with skiing, none of the skis really fit him. He had to basically start there.”

The result was Beyond the Break: The Sam Danniels Story, a 46-minute film marking its debut at the Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival.

“If she had approached me and said, ‘We’d like to make a 50-minute video about you’ I would’ve laughed and said, ‘I’m not

COOL CREATION Sam Danniels and his handmade waveski are featured in Beyond the Break.

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that interesting,’” Danniels says. “But it evolved into that.”

Danniels—who called Whistler home for a decade—might be modest, but the film demonstrates he is in fact interesting enough to fill 46 minutes. Whistlerites in particular will be able to relate to his background as a fearless outdoor athlete.

When a horrific mountain-bike accident in 2005, at the age of 19, injured his spinal

engineering ways around him to do the sports he loved,” McIntosh says.

The documentary follows Danniels as he creates his latest board—from the start with shaping it to have it glassed to actually hitting the waves in Tofino. It’s interspersed with Danniels’ story and insight into how far effort, passion, and determination can take you.

Because he doesn’t have control of his

“He’s determined. He doesn’t want anyone feeling sorry for him. He’s out there just doing it.

It was so cool to see him get in the water and then when he caught the first wave I almost cried.”

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cord and left him paralyzed from the chest down, that didn’t change.

Instead, he customized a sit-ski and wound up competing around the world; built an adaptive bike, more for fitness than enjoyment, he points out in the film; and, later, came to the sport of waveski surfing, building several of his own boards.

“That was really inspiring to me— just the fact that this guy who had so many obstacles put in front of him was

lower back, or hip muscles, for example, instead of rolling his waveski like a kayak when it overturns, every time he falls, Danniels has to unstrap, right the board, get on top of it, and strap back in.

“It’s a lot of energy, for sure,” he says. “[But it’s a] big part of the skill of being able to go out and do it safely and successfully.”

While shaping the board only took three days, along with a few days to glass it, the

production of the film took much longer.

“We had quite the delay,” McIntosh says. “But COVID didn’t stop us completely because we’re a documentary crew and quite small. In most cases, it was me, and a cameraperson who was also doing sound. It was a crew of two people.

We were able to resume some filming in the summer.”

Also adding to the delays: Danniels was on his sit-ski on Whistler Mountain last winter when his binding failed, he fell, and sustained a concussion.

(He fully recovered a few weeks later.)

But when the film crew, Danniels, and his partner Megan, who’s also featured in the film, were finally able to make the trip to Tofino to try out the new waveski for the first time, it all came together.

“It was a really awesome thing for me because we had been talking about surfing the whole time,” McIntosh says. “But there’s also nerves. I had never seen him surf before. I didn’t know how confident and capable he was … He’s determined. He doesn’t want anyone feeling sorry for him.

He’s out there just doing it. It was so cool to see him get in the water and then when he caught the first wave I almost cried.”

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some UBC Varsity Outdoor Club (VOC) journals to our research collection, we’ve been enjoying learning more about how the VOC cabin came to be. Last week, we took a look at the long search for a site, which culminated in 1965 with a piece of land in today’s Nordic Estates that was to be reserved for club cabins.

Once the process of finding a site was complete (and even before provincial government surveyors arrived to do their own survey of the area), construction began on the VOC cabin at Whistler. Most of the planning and construction work was done

by VOC members, including many hours contributed by grads such as Byron Olson.

An architect, Olson postponed his planned trip to Europe to design the structure. His plans called for a main structure with a lounge to accommodate parties and events of 150 people, a large kitchen, washrooms, a boot-drying room, storage, and separate dormitory structures designed to sleep 90.

The plan was to construct the VOC cabin in stages, beginning with the main structure. The first stage included putting up walls and getting the roof on by Christmas 1965. Construction began in August with “enthusiastic work parties of VOC’ers.” While members volunteered to work on the cabin, the VOC did hire a CAT driver to help clear and level the site. In the first couple of months, a road to the site was cleared, trails were cut and a waterline was installed. Building was not, however, always straightforward.

Karl Ricker, who was heavily involved in the project, recalls that there was an old logging road that went to the site, which was used by the CAT driver, and to get gravel for concrete delivered. However, the logging road became unusable after the

first rain. Instead, equipment and supplies would be brought up the back road that came within half a kilometre of the site, and then they would have to be carried for the rest of the journey. Most of the supplies came from Vancouver and, as the highway to Whistler had not yet been completed, had already been on quite a trip.

In the VOC journal of 1965, Judy MacKay wrote that, “autumn brought wind, rain, and a deluge of prospective new members to the site.” Ricker recalls that each weekend, between 15 and 100 volunteers would arrive to work “like beavers” on the VOC Cabin.

The VOC members were not the only ones making their way to the site—according to Ricker, a few Alta Lake residents would also appear each weekend to observe the students’ work.

By mid-October, the VOC was getting close to finishing the first stage of construction. By the end of the month, construction was at a point that the VOC Halloween party could be held in Whistler and MacKay reported that: “The cabin sagged and swayed in rhythm to every polka beat.”

Later in the season, however, mid-terms unsurprisingly meant that student labour was harder to come by and members of the Alpine Club helped with the roof and putting on shakes. Ricker remembered carrying the windows for the cabin from the highway with snow on the ground about two weeks before the beginning of UBC’s December break.

Though there was still a lot of work to be done, the VOC did finish the first stage of construction by Christmas and the cabin was ready for some students who chose to spend their break in Whistler. The lifts on Whistler Mountain, however, were not quite so ready and did not open in December as planned, leaving the VOC members to spend their holidays ski touring through the area. n

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1 CLASSIC CANADIANS “Lake days” take on a new meaning when temperatures drop in the Sea to Sky. Pictured is a game of pickup on Gates Lake in Birken on Feb. 15. PHOTO BY KYLE DOWIE. 2 WE’LL MISS YOU, DALE A small group of Whistler Blackcomb mountain hosts gathered atop Blackcomb Mountain on Thursday, Feb. 18 to pay a heartfelt tribute to Dale Hotell, leader of the mountain hosts for more than 35 years, about one year after Hotell skied his final run before

PINK SHIRT DAY In lieu of a school-wide assembly, Whistler Secondary School students created an uplifting mural to help mark Pink Shirt Day, a global anti-bullying campaign that took place this year on Wednesday, Feb. 24. Read more about it on page 17. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 4 NO LIMITS Whistler succumbing to cancer. The group dressed in blue—Hotell’s favourite colour—and skied his favourite and last run: Catskinner, Slingshot and Gearjammer. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 3

Brewing is celebrating its newest brew, created in collaboration with the Whistler Adaptive Sports Program: No Limits Rye Ale. The medium bodied, lightly hopped amber ale charity brew will soon be available in select liquor stores across the Sea to Sky corridor, with partial proceeds from every pack sold donated to Whistler Adaptive. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 5 WAG LOVE While she continues to search for her forever home, long-time Whistler Animals Galore (WAG) resident Lola is reminding Whistlerites that the organization’s Month of Love online auction fundraiser is open and available for bidding until 9 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 28. PHOTO BY KENDALL BENBOW.

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MARCH EPISODES

ARIES (March 21-April 19): I invite you to think about one or two types of physical discomforts and symptoms that your body seems most susceptible to. Meditate on the possibility that there are specific moods or feelings associated with those discomforts and symptoms— perhaps either caused by them or the cause of them.

The next step is to formulate an intention to monitor any interactions that might transpire between the bodily states and emotional states. Then make a plan for how you will address them both with your own healing power whenever they visit you in the future.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Poet Billy Collins describes “standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.”

I have high hopes that your entire life will be like that in the coming weeks: that you’ll feel as if the world is alive with special messages just for you; that every situation you’re in will feel like you belong there; that every intuition welling up from your subconscious mind into your conscious awareness will be specifically what you need at the moment it arrives.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re entering a potentially heroic phase of your astrological cycle. The coming weeks will be a time when I hope you will be motivated to raise your integrity and impeccability to record levels. To inspire you, I’ve grabbed a few affirmations from a moral code reputed to be written by a 14th-century Samurai warrior. Try saying them, and see if they rouse you to make your good character even better. 1. “I have no divine power; I make honesty my divine power.” 2. “I have no miracles; I make right action my miracle.” 3. “I have no enemy; I make carelessness my enemy.” 4. “I have no designs; I make ‘seizing opportunity’ my design.” 5. “I have no magic secrets; I make character my magic secret.” 6. “I have no armour; I make benevolence and righteousness my armour.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle,” writes Cancerian author and Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield. I disagree with him. There are many other modes of awareness that can be useful as we navigate our labyrinthine path through this crazy world.

Regarding each minute as an opportunity to learn something new, for instance: That’s an excellent way to live. Or, for another example, treating each minute as another chance to creatively express our love. But I do acknowledge that Kornfield’s approach is sublime and appealing. And I think it will be especially apropos for you during the coming weeks.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The coming weeks will be a poignant and healing time for you to remember the people in your life who have died—as well as ancestors whom you never met or didn’t know well. They have clues to offer you, rich feelings to nourish you with, course corrections to suggest. Get in touch with them through your dreams, meditations, and reminiscences. Now read this inspiration from poet Rainer Maria Rilke: “They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.”

(Translation from the German by Stephen Mitchell.)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’m fond of 18th-century Virgo painter Maurice-Quentin de La Tour. Why? 1. He specialized in creating portraits that brought out his subjects’ charm and intelligence. 2. As he grew wealthier, he became a philanthropist who specialized in helping poor women and artists with disabilities. 3. While most painters of his era did self-portraits that were solemn, even ponderous, de La Tour’s self-portraits showed him smiling and good-humoured. 4. Later in his life, when being entirely reasonable was no longer a top priority, de La Tour enjoyed conversing with trees. In accordance with the astrological omens, I propose that we make him your patron saint for now. I hope you’ll be inspired to tap into your inner Maurice-Quentin de La Tour.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with your overall health, Libra. In fact, I expect it’s probably quite adequate. But from an astrological point of view, now is the right time to schedule an appointment for a consultation with your favourite healer, even if just

by Zoom. In addition, I urge you to consult a soul doctor for a complete metaphysical check-up. Chances are that your mental health is in fair shape, too. But right now it’s not enough for your body and soul to be merely adequate; they need to receive intense doses of well-wrought love and nurturing. So I urge you to ask for omens and signs and dreams about what precisely you can do to treat yourself with exquisite care.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Love commands a vast army of moods,” writes author Diane Ackerman.

“Frantic and serene, vigilant and calm, wrung-out and fortified, explosive and sedate.” This fact of life will be prominently featured in your life during the coming weeks. Now is a fertile time to expand your understanding of how eros and romance work when they’re at their best—and to expand your repertoire of responses to love’s rich challenges. Don’t think of it as a tough test; imagine it as an interesting research project.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian poet and visual artist William Blake (1757–1827) cultivated a close relationship with lofty thoughts and mystical visions. He lived with his wife Catherine for the last 45 years of his life, but there were times when he was so preoccupied with his amazing creations that he neglected his bond with her. Catherine once said, “I have very little of Mr. Blake’s company. He is always in Paradise.” I hope that you won’t be like that in the coming weeks. Practical matters and intimate alliances need more of your attention than usual. Consider the possibility, at least for now, of spending less time in paradise and more on Earth.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Poet Robert Graves regarded the ambiguity of poetry as a virtue, not a problem.

In his view, poetry’s inscrutability reflects life’s true nature.

As we read its enigmatic ideas and feelings, we may be inspired to understand that experience is too complex to be reduced to simplistic descriptions and overgeneralized beliefs. In fact, it’s quite possible that if we invite poetry to retrain our perceptions, we will develop a more tolerant and inclusive perspective toward everything. I’m telling you this, Capricorn, because whether or not you read a lot of poetry in the coming weeks, it will be wise and healthy for you to celebrate, not just tolerate, how paradoxical and mysterious the world is.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The coming weeks will be a favourable time to shed old habits that waste your energy, and create constructive new habits that will serve you well for months and years to come. To inspire and guide your efforts, I offer these thoughts from author and naturalist Henry David Thoreau: “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean author Anais Nin was a maestro of metamorphosis, a virtuoso of variation, an adept at alteration. She regarded her ceaseless evolution as a privilege and luxury, not an oppressive inconvenience. “I take pleasure in my transformations,” she wrote. “I look quiet and consistent, but few know how many women there are in me.” Her approach is a healthy model for most of you Pisceans—and will be especially worth adopting in the coming weeks. I invite you to be a Change Specialist whose nickname is Flux Mojo.

Homework: Complete this sentence: “Sooner or later the pandemic will lose its power to limit us. When it does, I will _______________.” FreeWillAstrology.com

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Play stupid games…

HEY BOYS AND GIRLS, let’s have fun this week. You remember fun, don’t you? I know, you might not feel like you’ve had a lot of fun lately—OK, for the last year—but you’ve probably had some fun, haven’t you? I mean fun isn’t like dinner parties, which you probably haven’t had at all in the past year, at least without concern or guilt or contracting COVID-19. But skiing is fun. Right? At least after you finally snake through the massive lineups at the base of the mountains if your reality is skiing on weekends.

Before we have fun, I’d just like to say some kind words about the people who

BY G.D. MAXWELL work in government. Seriously. Not a lot of kind words but give me a couple of minutes and I’ll come up with some.

As much fun as it is to disrespect people who work in government, especially the none-too-aptly-named civil servants, I believe most of them enter government to do good. Of course, I’m reminded of the seminal academic studies of students entering medical school. A “desire to help,” to “cure and prevent diseases,” and to “interact with people” were prime motivations of new med school students.

But somewhere along the way, while those things remained important, if latent, the laser-like focus on disease and trauma tended to reduce the humanity of those key motivations and simultaneously reduce humans to whatever boo-boo was being taken care of.

This explains why my orthopaedic surgeon always referred to me as The Knee, as opposed to Max. I’m certain you have had or know about similar experiences.

It also helps explain the level of service many of us experience when working with, or as it often feels, interrupting government employees.

But I’m here to say I still believe they do good work most of the time. OK, some of the time. And I still believe they’d like to do good work most of the time. If possible.

Being in the public eye, though, when they screw up, their blunders seem so much more, how shall I put this, bone-headed?

Unbelievably dumb? Tone deaf as an alley cat in heat?

Case in point: COVID-19. By any measure, the current pandemic has taken a terrible toll. Since the first case was discovered a year ago, there have been almost 850,000 cases in Canada. More than 21,000 people have died in this country and they’re still dropping by 40-plus people every day. Canada being a small big country, our numbers pale compared to global figures. They ring in at more than 112 million cases and almost 2.5 million deaths.

More to the point, many of us—not me of course, I live in denial—are walking wounded. Depressed, angry, frustrated,

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hopeful, at the end of our rope, unable to find our rope, and generally weary; we just want this to end. We want to go out, sit down, order a heavenly cheeseburger and a draft IPA and eat it without getting any on our masks.

Governments at all levels have tried to make things better. Seriously. But someone we will probably never know the name(s) of in the government of British Columbia tried a little too hard last week. I’m sure he/she/they thought his/her/their efforts would be helpful but, really? Self-Care Bingo? Bingo? Really?

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weekend, we might cut them some slack for recommending, for example, “Made a blanket fort;” “Took a nap;” “Cleaned something;” and other activities sure to lift your spirits or at least remind you to turn the gas off in your oven before sticking your head in.

The money shot, the centre of the Bingo card, was, “Cried. Let it out.” I believe we can all breathe easier he/she/they didn’t specify exactly what “it” was we were letting out.

I have to admit, though, making games out of mental health in the midst

We want to go out, sit down, order a heavenly cheeseburger and a draft IPA and eat it without getting any on our masks.

It appeared on Twitter on Friday, which is why I didn’t see it until after the weekend.

Styled as a Bingo card, it urged people to take steps to “help manage some stress and anxiety.” Choose your own steps but complete a row—across, down or diagonal... just like Bingo!

Given he/she/they were trying to get this little task off their to-do list by the

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of a pandemic seems like an idea. Not a good idea, mind you. Certainly not the kind of idea I feel good about helping pay someone’s substantial salary and indexedfor-life pension for, but an idea.

Bingo would not have been the first game that came to my mind, probably because I’ve never won a Bingo game in my life. Possibly because I’ve never played

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a Bingo game. But perhaps Snakes and Ladders™ didn’t seem quite as, what’s the word I’m looking for, compassionate.

Monopoly™ might have been a good model. But in the pandemic version, you don’t try to accumulate wealth and property so much as you try to keep your business open and avoid personal bankruptcy.

Community Chest might give you more CERB or advance you to a higher priority for vaccination. Wouldn’t that lift your spirits?

Clue™ might be fun, but I think it would be more aimed at making a game out of contact tracing than mental health. Still, just being able to trace back to the source of the devil who gave you COVID-19—it was the bartender with the droopy mask in the library lounge who did it—might be a boon to your mental health.

Candy Land™ as a format has possibilities if we switch out gumdrops and candy canes for artisanal bread and bagels and replace Mr. Mint and Princess Frostine with Uncle Sourdough and Ms. Pretzel, the contortionist.

And instead of conquering the world with armies and backstabbing allies with false diplomacy, Risk™ would be reworked to recognize the devastating power of viruses and weaponized biochemical warfare. Not sure how that would make us feel better, but I’m pretty certain it would appeal to the conspiracy theorists out there.

But for now, I’ll settle for Good Government Bingo. Good luck getting any of these, let alone a row or diagonal. ■

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