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‘There s lifef above the thighs’ Arts Whistler marks 40 years of nurturing the arts in an unapologetic sports town FREE CAKE BOON OR BARRIER? Whistler’s cannabis retail policy offers risk and reward14 HARD TO BEAR Two more Sea to Sky bears killed due to conflict16 CLASSIC ACT Vancouver pianist to perform benefit concert in Whistler48 AUGUST 25, 2022 ISSUE 29.34 WWW.PIQUENEWSMAGAZINE.COM

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‘There is life above the thighs’

BOON OR BARRIER? Whistler’s new cannabis retail policy goes beyond other jurisdictions in its lengthy list of approval criteria, offering both risk and reward to prospective retailers.

OPENING DAY Whistler Blackcomb is set to open for the season on Nov. 24—with a cap on daily lift ticket sales.

HARD TO BEAR Bear behaviour in the Sea to Sky continues to be a cause for concern, as two more black bears were killed due to conflict last week.

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NEXT GEN Whistler’s Marcus Goguen wrapped up Crankworx Whistler in style by winning the Stevie Smith Memorial Award.

SUITE JUSTICE The Village of Pemberton has petitioned a homeowner to remove an illegal suite from their property, part of its wider crackdown on non-conforming suites in Tiyata Village.

- By Brandon Barrett COVER Proud owner of a closet full of vintage stretch pants. If I’m honest, quite a considerable amount of my closet is the result of the many characters and personalities the Whistler Arts Council (now Arts Whistler) has supported over the years. Miss you Chili. Not too many people left whose default is friendly. Getting harder and harder to be a weirdo around here. Have to wade through a tsunami of side-eyes. Maybe it’s me, maybe I’m getting too old for this shit—time to cut my hair, get a real job!? - By Jon Parris // @jon.parris.art

48 CLASSIC ACT Vancouver concert pianist Clinton Giovanni Denoni is set to perform a benefit concert at the Whistler Community Church on Saturday, Aug. 27.

Arts Whistler marks 40 years of nurturing the arts in an unapologetic sports town.

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The 2022 wildfire season has offered a welcome reprieve so far (knock on wood)—but we’re not out of the tinder-dry woods yet.

A new study looks at how social media impacts injuries and search-and-rescue callouts, prompting the question: are backcountry photos on social media contagious?

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A new exhibit at the Whistler Museum explores the geological history of the Sea to Sky, including volcanoes, landslides and more.

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RANGE ROVER A multitude of factors is leading to curious bear behaviour in Whistler this summer—and some tragic outcomes for local bears, writes Leslie Anthony.

Letter writers this week weigh in on plans for the Catholic church, advocate for free transit and plead for shorter letters to the editor.

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To date, there have been 1,030 fires in the province, down from the 1,539 seen at this point last year and the 10-year average of 1,176.But after several weeks of hot temperatures, the risk in our forests is rising, and as of this writing, Whistler’s fire danger rating had been listed as “extreme” for seven of the last eight days. So wildfire season is not over, and now is not the time to let our guard down.

“You can see any incidents that are in your immediate area or anywhere that you’re planning to visit; you can check the fire danger rating on there; you can also find out more information about prohibitions, and there’s the ability to report fires through that app as well,” she said.

HAVE YOU BEEN singing kumbaya around illegal Whistler campfires in recent weeks? Tossing your cigarette butts out your car window, or your smouldering roaches on the side of the Valley Trail? Setting off fireworks to light up the night?Ifyou answered yes to any of the above, I have something I’d like to say to you—but this is a family newsmagazine, so instead I’ll just borrow a phrase from my mother and ask you politely to please smarten up. It’s been a quiet summer in Whistler and across the province, as far as wildfires go. For much of the time I’ve lived in Whistler, my summer morning routines have often included a very specific step. I put the coffee on, boot up my computer, check my emails—and then load the BC Wildfire Service’s interactive map to see how the province’s wildfire situation has shifted overnight. More specifically, I’m watching for any new little dots in the vicinity of Whistler or Pemberton.Mercifully, this daily summer tradition has been almost completely unnecessary in 2022, after a soggy and subdued spring gave us a welcome reprieve from the smoke and anxiety of years past. My morning map scourings have turned up very few fresh dots thus far this year— and I’m not about to complain about that. According to the BC Wildfire Service, there have been 102 fires in the Coastal Fire Centre so far in 2022, well below the 194 seen at this point in 2021 and the 10-year average of 168. “A lot of that has to do with just the cool start to the summer that we saw,” said Nadia Linning, a fire information assistant with the BC Wildfire Service’s Coastal Fire Centre, which includes Whistler. “So we had a very slow start to the fire season, and then we’ve had really great success with our initial attack on the fires that we have seen, so we haven’t had any real big incidents in Coastal thus far this season.” Province-wide, as of Aug. 21, there were 191 active wildfires in B.C.

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“If you do see signs of a wildfire, you can send a photo through the app, and that’s super helpful for us, just because it gives us an idea of what we’re going into before crews are actually able to arrive on scene.”

Linning also recommended downloading the BC Wildfire Service’s new app to further help the province’s fire crews.

Find more information and local FireSmart resources at whistler.ca/wildfire. Report fires by calling 1-800-663-5555 or by texting *5555. ■

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A Category 2 and 3 burning ban (on open burning and industrial burning) has been in place since July 15, while a campfire prohibition was instituted for the Coastal Fire Centre on Aug. 4. With Whistler’s fire danger rating sitting at extreme, it is crucial that people respect the burning bans, Linning said.

“Human-caused wildfires are completely preventable, and they divert resources away from lightning-caused fires—and we have seen some starts from recent lightning events throughout the fire centre in the last couple of weeks,” Linning said. “So it’s just really important our resources are staying available for those incidents.”Lightning activity—though always rare in Whistler—has been a major concern across the province of late. According to the BC Wildfire Service, from Friday, Aug. 19 to Saturday, Aug. 20 more than 11,000 lightning bolts hit the ground in B.C., starting 98 fresh wildfires (more than 75 per cent of all fires currently burning in B.C. are suspected to be lightning-caused).Withthatlevel of volatility from Mother Nature, it is up to all of us to ensure we’re not adding to the load with irresponsible fire management practices.

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Protecting our province protects us from climate change. Our government has the power to implement this climate solution right now, as part of a larger plan to address climate change. I urge the B.C. government to take the impacts of climate change seriously, and vow to protect 30 per cent of its land and water by 2030. We’re not waiting for more record-breaking temperatures: we are demanding action.Brad Woods // Squamish Whistlerites should demand free transit

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Protecting our province protects us from climate change Last year’s heat wave led to the deaths of more than 600 British Columbians, according to the BC Coroners Service. And once again, this year, we’re facing climbing temperatures and heat warnings. This feels like our “new normal.” But it doesn’t have to be. Nature has the power to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change. Forests keep tonnes of carbon out of our atmosphere and intact wetlands can help prevent floods. Protecting 25 per cent of B.C.’s land and waters by 2025, followed by 30 per cent by 2030, is a climate action that is backed by science and would protect at-risk species. It would also support the conservation vision of First Nations who are leading efforts on the ground. (Editor’s note: According to the provincial government, B.C. currently protects about 15.4 per cent of its land base and 3.2 per cent of its marine areas.)

The gift of free transit this summer has turned me, for the first time in my life, into a bus commuter. Several times a week I catch a ride to work in the village instead of the long walk or other (more carbon-intensive) alternatives. I’ve appreciated the extra time in my day and the freedom of movement— without which I would never have feasibly squeezed in so many post-shift beers at my favourite Function taproom. Yet, all the same, I’m still on the fence as to whether I’ll cough up the not inconsiderable cash for a monthly pass when the free rides end next month.

As a longtime owner in Whistler and a Catholic, I was aghast at the proposition by Father Andrew L’Heureux regarding the future of Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic Church (Pique, July 14: “Whistler’s Catholic church looks to expand its footprint…”). Suggesting that God is not in the church is preposterous. As a spiritual representative of the Catholic faith, Father Andrew is steering away from basic Catholic beliefs, [as pointed out in] G.D. Maxwell’s article, [which] quoted from the book of Matthew: “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the midst of them.” Our church is a holy place meant to provide acceptance, love and serenity to all attending—visitors and locals. I especially have great objection to the collaboration of our church with the Napa Institute and Father’s vision of a Camino de Santiago-like pilgrimage. For those who know, that inspiration came from the biblical apostle St. James. The famous pilgrimage site in northwest Spain became a symbol in the Spanish Christians’ struggle against Islam. Santiago de Compostela is one of three holy cities in the church where Catholics earn absolution for their sins by making the pilgrimage (the other two cities are Rome and Jerusalem) and honouring St. James, whose relics are there. Whistler does NOT have a St. James, nor is it a holy city. Please, Napa, stay where you are! Our beautiful church in its mountain setting is an inspiration and should remain as it is. The church is vital—sharing its joy with music, hosting weddings and funerals and supporting our spiritual needs. Channel those funds for other purposes— taking this inspiration into the community and making a difference.

The Resort Municipality of Whistler has much to learn from this unplanned experiment, and I for one would love to see the results: how has free transit affected ridership? Anecdotally, I can attest that the system is hardly strained and that I’ve always been able to find a seat. Mayor Jack Crompton’s refusal to contemplate an extension of free buses—even just for residents—seems hard to justify, and while I’d appreciate more frequent service I would still rather wait and take a fuller bus gratis than pay for an empty one leaving 15 minutes earlier. I agree with Pique editor Braden Dupuis that this is a deceptively simple proposition ( Pique , Aug. 18: “Should Whistler make transit free forever?”), but ... free transit is not just something we deserve, but something we need and, moving into election season, something we should demand.

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“The Associations Between Visitation, Social Media Use, and Search and Rescue in United States National Parks,” published in Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, used 2017 visitor use statistics from the U.S. National Park Service, a search and rescue (SAR) incident dashboard, and an app from the University of California, Irvine called Cloudberry, which collects Twitter posts and sorts them by keywords, hashtags and geographic information.

While the study doesn’t go into details about how, exactly, social media users are motivating each other to get the shot, that likely just means seeing the pic makes you want to get the pic. It also references previous studies of a similar nature. One, for example, looked at photo-taking behaviours at sites where people were injured. The most common feature:“[T]hecliffs.most preferred site of photography was on cliff edges, and the most frequently reported injury was falling from heights,” it read. Now, before you nominate these people for the Darwin Awards, really think about it. If you were to visit Trolltunga, would you not get a photo of your own? (I already hear a lot of you saying you’d skip such a tourist trap, so insert your lesserknown cliff here.)

Sure you would—whether it was for social media or just remained on your camera roll. Would you dangle your legs off the end, creating the illusion heights don’t bother you one bit? Maybe not. Perhaps the takeaway from the study is twofold: we need to be responsible about how we showcase our favourite backcountry spots in the Sea to Sky—and be mindful of where we’re standing when we get the There’sshot.data to backup the fact that we’re not always great at that. ■

While the data was based on American National Parks, it’s not a stretch to think the conclusions are applicable in Canada—or anywhere else with tantalizing backcountry, for that Somematter.of the study’s conclusions border on “duh” levels of obvious; more recreational visitors meant higher calls to SAR, for example. However, it also found that both frontcountry and backcountry visits caused a similar spike in SAR calls. Backcountry visits, however, had a stronger correlation with fatalities. But arguably the most interesting part of the study—which, for some reason, only looked at Twitter rather than photo- or video-based social media—concluded that tweets are correlated with SAR incidents, visits, and fatalities. We might have guessed this to be true, and now the data confirms it.

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I’ve seen images of this place a million times, and yet every time I still think, “Wow, it would be cool to see this in person.”

“Regarding public safety, the strongest correlation in our study was between tweets and SAR incidents,” the report said. “There are likely several mediators that contribute to this association, such as an increased number of visitors posting to social media and increased visitation overall being related to SAR incidents, as identified in our study. However, we suggest that social media may be associated with SAR incidents via users motivating others to obtain photos or videos through risky or dangerous means. Existing studies have demonstrated the dangers associated with social mediainfluenced trends in the outdoors.”

Are backcountry photos on social media contagious?

I WAS MINDLESSLY scrolling through Instagram the other day when yet another video popped up of a person perched on the edge of Trolltunga in Norway. If you follow any outdoor accounts you’ve undoubtedly seen this image, whether you recognize the name of the picturesque cliff or not. In fact, go ahead and Google image search it right now. You will see dozens and dozens of the exact same—though admittedly jawdropping—image.Withsomany people making the trek, I wondered if this hike was simply a lookout near a parking lot, a full-day hike or somewhere in between. Turns out, from the main trailhead, it’s 27 kilometres long and about 800 metres in elevation (and the government of Norway wants you to be prepared for that, as outlined on visitnorway.com). I suppose those people are earning their sometimesslightly-risky pictures.

A new(ish) study highlighted in Backpacker magazine earlier this month concludes what we’ve long suspected: social media images are driving people to the photogenic places they showcase.

In a follow-up statement, Crompton clarified that the OCP provisions that “commit the RMOW to pursuing inclusion of the Lil’wat and Squamish Nations in local business opportunities are general in scope,” while the criteria in the cannabis policy “is a specific application of that commitment to the Cannabis licensing process.”

As previously reported, the RMOW’s policy includes a lengthy list of approval criteria on top of provincial and federal regulations for prospective applicants, with favour given to applicants for things like: providing a living wage and housing to staff, committing to climate leadership and pursuing Whistler’s community health and social strategy goals. Favour will also be given to locally-based applicants and those who partner with the Lil’wat or Squamish FirstStokerNations.called it a “burdensome” process when compared to jurisdictions such as Vancouver, where Dutch Love counts five stores, with the City employing “more of a free enterprise-style process, whereas Whistler is built on these merit-based applications,” he said.

“It will be really interesting because clearly the locals, the Whistler community, are rooting for local businesses, and I totally agree with that. But these are also people that are getting into incredibly vulnerable positions. They may or may not have [cannabis] retail experience, let alone overarching business experience,” he said. “Hopefully what the RMOW does is balance some really strong, sensible local applications in order for them to open stores against some candidates that have a deeper history of business experience, because it’s a grind, long-term. It requires a tremendous amount of diligence to operate these things properly.”

n HOT BOX The interior of the Dutch Love cannabis shop located on Main Street in Vancouver. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE DONNELLY GROUP NEWS WHISTLER 14 AUGUST 25, 2022

“When you think about the investment in time, energy and notably money in building out a store like this, the prospect of it not being renewed after three, or even six years is a massive risk,” he said. “It’s a little bit counterintuitive to traditional commercial real estate. Typically, you’re creating a fiveif not 10-year lease agreement, and that’s a legal contract you’re very much bound to. So, if after three or six years, a licence isn’t renewed and it’s out of your hands, you’re still left with a significant amount of term on that contract that you’re responsible for. The risk is tremendous.”

The silver lining to the RMOW’s onerous approval system is that it “really encourages applicants to take it very seriously,” Stoker added. “Being a resort municipality, they’re really trying to choose the right candidates that fit all those profiles. At the same time, this is brand new to everybody at the RMOW and they have no direct experience in how it works. So is it a divine policy? No, not necessarily. We’ve been through it all and we would’ve written it a bit differently, but I think it’s a smart approach.”

RMOW’S MERIT-BASED SYSTEM OFFERS BOTH ‘TREMENDOUS’ RISK AND OPPORTUNITY FOR RETAILERS, SAYS CANNABIS ENTREPRENEUR BY BRANDON BARRETT

Crompton also noted he wasn’t aware of any interest expressed by the Nations to launch or partner on a cannabis retail store in Whistler. At the Nation’s request, Pique sent a Lil’wat spokesperson a list of questions related to cannabis retail last week, but did not receive any responses by pressFortime.more information on Whistler’s new cannabis retail policy, visit whistler. ca/cannabis.

But building a brand takes time, and the RMOW’s decision to approve retail applications via three-year temporary-use permits (TUP) could present significant barriers to that goal.

Is Whistler’s cannabis criteria a business boon or barrier?

For his part, Stoker said he generally agrees with the approach, particularly the RMOW’s decision to cap the number of pot shops in town at five. “I think the location cap in Whistler is really important, because we don’t want to see any undue saturation. We’ve observed that in other markets, most notably in Alberta and Ontario, so I think that was a smart way to position it,” he noted. “But there are more hoops to jump through in that application process. There’s more work to be done in that application, but I think it’s worth it.”

When asked in a recent interview whether favouring applicants based on their place of residence or ethnicity goes against free market principles, Mayor Jack Crompton said the criteria included in the cannabis policy align with the guiding principles of Whistler’s Official Community Plan (OCP) that was updated in 2020.

“Council cannot refuse to consider applications submitted by particular applicants, but they can and should use the clear direction in the OCP to inform decisions,” he explained. “It has criteria in it that clearly states successful applicants will present the values of reconciliation in successful applications.”

For prospective retailers, Whistler’s true appeal isn’t necessarily the potential financial windfall that could come from operating in the resort, Stoker said, but the opportunity to build brand recognition over the long-term.“What’sreally interesting when you think about Whistler as this global destination, there’s tremendous opportunity to build a brand,” he said. “If you’re in it for the long run, Whistler is a phenomenal place to build a brand and potentially scale a business up down the road.”

In Stoker’s mind, the relative uncertainty around TUPs drives home the importance of ensuring successful applicants have the appropriate experience both in retail generally and in cannabis specifically.

HARRISON STOKER considers himself a cannabis realist. After three years working in the recreational cannabis sector, the former Whistlerite is quick to dispel any misconceptions about the sector’s“Theprofitability.realityof the industry is that it’s a real grind, just like hospitality and retail, but with a tremendous amount of regulatory framework that can be incredibly challenging, not only to do the work but to make money,” he said. “As a realist, this is not a money tree to be planted in Whistler’s backyard. There’s no such thing.” Stoker is a co-founder of the Whistler Village Beer Festival and current chief growth officer for the Donnelly Group, which operates 16 cannabis retail stores in B.C. and Ontario through its Dutch Love brand. He is also well-versed in the Resort Municipality of Whistler’s (RMOW) recently finalized cannabis retail policy, having been involved in the municipality’s consultation with both the industry and public.

WHISTLER BLACKCOMB (WB) is set to open on Nov. 24, Vail Resorts announced on Aug. 23. If conditions allow, closing day will be May 22, giving WB “one of the longest ski and ride seasons anywhere,” according to a release.Amajor change slated for this season: daily lift ticket sales will be limited in an effort to “prioritize the mountain experience for ... guests,” the release said. The availability of lift tickets will be visible on WB’s website in the coming weeks. Once lift tickets are sold out for the day online, they will not be available at ticket“Wewindows.caredeeply about our guests’ experience at our resorts,” said James O’Donnell, president of Vail Resorts’ mountain division. “Limiting lift tickets throughout the season, alongside the big investments we’re making at our resorts and in our team members, will help us provide our guests with an [experience of a lifetime] this winter.”

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The announcement also confirmed Vail will no longer require face coverings or proof of vaccination at any of its resorts. “With safety as its top priority, the company will continue to monitor the changing dynamics of the pandemic, but at this time does not plan to have any of these measures in place,” the release said. “Employees will continue to complete daily health screenings and resorts will still apply enhanced cleaning practices.” For employees, Vail says pay raises are set for the season, along with leadership development opportunities and investments in affordable employee housing. Lift upgrades are also underway for many of Vail’s resorts, including WB. Upgrades on both the Creekside Gondola and Big Red Express are expected to be finished in time for the season. The Creekside Gondola, previously a six-person gondola, will be replaced with a 10-person, high-speed gondola, increasing the “outof-base uphill capacity” in Creekside by 35 per cent. Big Red, meanwhile, will become a high-speed, six-person chair, an upgrade from“Wefour-person.areallincredibly excited to welcome guests from around the world back to Whistler Blackcomb this winter,” said Geoff Buchheister, VP and COO of WB. “There are so many exciting things happening at Whistler Blackcomb, and anticipation is building as we prepare to welcome skiers and riders back to our beautiful, iconic mountains. We can’t wait to once again share the magic of our mountains with our guests, especially as our world-class team infuses their expertise, passion, and dedication into every detail required to prepare for winter. I have no doubt that the upcoming ski and ride season will be one for the books!” n

“Limiting lift tickets throughout the season, alongside the big investments we’re making at our resorts and in our team members, will help us provide our guests with an [experience of a lifetime] this winter.”

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TWO MORE BLACK BEARS are dead in the Sea to Sky corridor after conservation officers deemed the animals’ behaviour to be a public safety threat.

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The same bear had also been observed eating food off camping tables, tipping over commercial garbage bins and entering “multiple” homes in search of food, in some cases by forcing entry that caused damage to theAsproperties.COSstaff wrote in the notice, the animal was “dispatched due to its continuing and escalating behaviour being a public safety concern.” Pique confirmed the bear was killed at around 10:30 p.m. after entering numerous occupied buildings, including the home where it was ultimately located. The unfortunate incident in Emerald was far from the only case of a bear entering a residence in Whistler this summer. Another adult black bear was killed one week earlier, on Aug. 12, after visiting several occupied properties in Creekside. Conservation officers said they’ve received a rash of reports of black bears gaining entry to homes throughout the resort in recent weeks, and urged Whistler locals and visitors in all neighbourhoods to keep all doors and windows locked, particularly when they’re not in the room. “Bears are being extremely persistent and going to great lengths to access food, including entering occupied homes and properties,” the notice explained. “It is important that as a community we work together to help keep our residents safe and our bears safe and wild.”

SEA TO SKY BEAR DEATHS TRENDING DOWNWARDS OVER SEVEN-YEAR PERIOD

A group advocating on behalf of British Columbia’s wildlife contacted the provincial auditor general in July asking for an independent audit of the BC COS. The Fur-Bearers cited a lack of financial transparency and a “relatively constant level in the number of bear killings” since 2015, as Glacier Media reported last month. Prior to submitting their request, the Fur-Bearers had released data obtained through a freedom of information request that showed, over seven years ending in 2021, the number of black bears killed in B.C. had climbed to 3,779, hovering between 415 and 632 deaths per year. Data accessed through freedom of information laws show that in 2021, for example, 581 black bears were killed by conservation officers across the province, while the BC COS carried out 85 compliance and enforcement actions under the Wildlife Act. According to that data, black bear deaths within Whistler have consistently trended downward since 2015, when eight bears were killed by conservation officers. There were

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“Bears that are conditioned to human food sources are not candidates for relocation or rehabilitation, due to the risk to public safety,” the spokesperson said. Later on Friday, a second black bear was killed after finding food in a residential area.

Authorities received a report on Aug. 19 about a large, adult male black bear that had entered an occupied home in Emerald through a back door, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) explained in a notice shared to social media, based off information provided by the BC Conservation Officer Service (COS).

Two more Sea to Sky black bears killed due to conflict

The first was killed Friday morning, Aug. 19 in Garibaldi Provincial Park after accessing backpacks strung near the Taylor Meadows campground west of Garibaldi Lake. The bear was “displaying behaviour determined to be too much of a public safety risk,” said a spokesperson for B.C.’s Ministry of Environment in a“Puttingstatement.down any bear is an unfortunate outcome that we work so hard to prevent,” the statement continued.

“The bear repeatedly accessed food bags from caches, returned to the campground numerous times and showed a minimal fear of people.”Photos published by CBC News show the bear climbing a tree to reach the packs hung in a pulley system near Garibaldi Lake designed to keep campers’ food and other attractants away from wildlife.

Handwritten notes dated Wednesday, Aug. 17 can be seen in another image posted by the public broadcaster, warning campers about a bear “guarding” a pack it had snagged from the cache.

Conservation officers confirmed the bear had previously been captured and relocated in 2018 after visiting homes’ upper decks and pawing at windows. “In subsequent years, this bear was relocated two further times, one of those being a longdistance relocation this year for similar and further behaviours,” the notice read. “Amongst the relocations COS have made countless attempts to haze this bear.”

‘TO KILL A BEAR FROM AN AREA THAT HE DOESN’T KNOW HE’S NOT ALLOWED TO BE IN IS JUST EXTREMELY UNFAIR,’ SAYS ADVOCATE BY MEGAN LALONDE

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Though black bear attacks are extremely rare, the ones that do occur disproportionately involve dogs. With that in mind, Lamb also reminds Whistlerites to keep pets leashed.

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Black bears are naturally inclined to coexist peacefully with other species, said Lamb. However, bears travelling through communities often need to be taught about boundaries and territories the same way they are in wilder, more remote areas, but in a manner that doesn’t leave them “traumatized” by humans, she said.

NEWS WHISTLER four bears killed in the resort in 2018, three in 2019, and two last year. The black bear put down in Emerald on Friday marks the third killed due to conflict within Whistler’s municipal boundaries this summer. In Pemberton, meanwhile, 12 black bears were killed in 2015. That number dropped to four in 2016, before falling further to just one in 2020. No black bears were killed as a result of conflict in 2021. A female bear was put down in Pemberton earlier this summer after biting two women in two different incidents in the Riverside Wetlands area.

BC COS’ official mandate is “the armed law-enforcement agency tasked with both protecting wildlife and destroying large predators when they threaten public safety,” but Lamb prefers to describe the agency as “the muscle.” She said she’d like to see that “muscle” used instead on those whose behaviour or negligence draws bears into dangerous situations, and also calls for the implementation of an independent public body to hold the BC COS accountable.

‘WE NEED TO LEARN FROM IT, NOT KILL THE BEAR FOR IT’ For longtime bear viewing guide and advocate Ellie Lamb, those numbers are still too high. She disagrees with authorities when it comes to the notion of “habituated” or “foodconditioned” bears, including in the case of the backpack-snatcher at Taylor Meadows. In Lamb’s view, “We need to learn from it, not kill the bear for it,” she said. “There’s going be another bear come and figure it out, too.” Lamb added, “To kill a bear from an area that he doesn’t know he’s not allowed to be in is just extremely unfair.” She suggested installing electric fences as humane, non-lethal tools that can successfully keep bears out of camping and food storage areas, including in the backcountry.

From a safe position like a porch, balcony or window, speak firmly—“like you’re speaking to a naughty teenager,” she suggested. If the bear doesn’t respond, have some small rocks available to throw at the bear. Finally, even a small amount of bear spray can reach up to 10 metres in “Humandistance.dominance is really important with some bears when they’re young,” Lamb explained. The animals should respect humans, but not necessarily fear them, she continued, “because that is when you get the wildcard,” whose distrust of humans could, potentially, manifest in more aggressive behaviour. All bears will bluff-charge when under enough pressure, said Lamb, but “the bear will not stay there and bluff-charge when he’s been sprayed by bear spray.”

In Lamb’s view, “it comes down to precautionary principle. That’s why [authorities] can kill the bear … because the bear has big teeth and long claws, he can kill people if he wanted to, so we need to kill him first. And that’s kind of how the Conservation Service responds,” she posited. “It’s not to say that there isn’t some positive response from the conservation service, it’s to say that most of their responses [across the province] are heavy-handed.”

In the case of bears entering homes, Lamb said that is typically the result of an animal that has become increasingly comfortable around residential properties. When dealing with a black bear that is sniffing around a home or getting too comfortable in an area where it shouldn’t be, Lamb said people’s response should “start low and go high.”

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The ministry acknowledged BC Parks “may take action by closing certain areas,” including backcountry campgrounds, in “situations where a food-conditioned bears [sic] becomes problematic and continues to revisit areas for food sources,” to provide the bear an opportunity to move on. As of Aug. 15, Garibaldi Provincial Park’s Singing Creek and Cheakamus Lake campgrounds remain closed until further notice due to “an aggressive and food-conditioned bear has been exhibiting threatening behaviour in the Cheakamus LakeBoth BCarea.” Parks and the COS encourage campers and hikers to take precautions when spending time in “bear country,” the ministry said, such as travelling in groups, carrying bear spray and securing attractants.

“There’s going be another bear come and figure it out, too.”

“I think we need to work together as a community to keep these animals alive,” she Thesaid.

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“I’m not a big fan of thinking that Whistler is exceptional—that Whistler is different from other places, and therefore we can’t learn or implement what other places have done,” he said.

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“This next council will need the courage, leadership and imagination to tackle this issue in a meaningful way. Without it, we don’t have a skiable future. We don’t have enough people to work the lifts. We don’t have enough people to run the restaurants.”

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“The reason I’m running at the municipal level is because I believe that this is the level we can have the most impact on lowering emissions and planning for a skiable future,” he said. Regarding the housing crisis, Ladner believes the RMOW needs to update its Official Community Plan to create more dense, walkable neighbourhoods in Whistler to achieve the municipality’s housing, quality of life, and emission targets.

As a result, the Whistler guest experience is stifled, businesses are constrained, and workers are burned out, Ladner said.

“We served 1.1 million customers over almost nine years of doing SMAK. So it was successful. It was just an unbelievable experience, but because of COVID and the pandemic, we shut it down.” The pandemic encouraged Ladner and his family to close their businesses in Vancouver and fulfil a lifelong dream of moving back to Whistler, where they have lived for the last two years. Since then, Ladner and his wife Amanda have launched a local climate advocacy group (Smart Whistler) and been a regular fixture at council meetings. Ladner’s top priority is environmental action, as he believes the current Whistler council lacks a sense of urgency to deal with climate change and rising emissions in the municipality.“Whenthe council first announced the Big Moves Strategy, I was excited by the target and thought, ‘wow, this is incredible.’ Then they announced a budget involving no municipal funding to lower emissions. A year later, we got an update, and things aren’t looking good on emissions,” Ladner said. “Whistler has been on the right track, historically, but due to a lack of leadership at council, we have fallen behind, and we’ve spent the last decade falling further and further behind many other jurisdictions.”

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Ladner visited Whistler often as a child, and following university (where he studied urban planning), lived in the resort for five years before moving to Vancouver to launch the healthy fast food business, SMAK. “At one point, we had 45 employees and three restaurants,” he said.

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Ladner’s main campaign slogan is to create a “skiable future” for Whistler with a platform focused on lowering greenhouse gas emissions, building adequate housing and bringing a younger point of view to the council table.

THE RACE for Whistler’s six council seats is beginning to heat up ahead of the official nomination period opening on Aug. 30. Whistler local Brendan Ladner, 42, is the latest to announce his intention to run for council in the Oct. 15 municipal election.

“I think we’re much better off looking at best practices from all around the world and then using those best ideas and implementing them here.”

“We’re on a trajectory to continue to stifle business in town due to lack of housing, and most crucially, the imagination among the leadership of this current council is so limited in scope that we haven’t even come close to exploring all of the options that are available to us,” he said.

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Ladner believes Whistler’s municipal government can substantially reduce emissions through transportation, land-use and building policies.

“A skiable future is a future where we have snow on the hills and happy people to work in the resort, so that we can ski, and future generations can continue to enjoy the amazing skiing we have here,” Ladner said.

WITH AN EMPHASIS ON ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION, LADNER CAMPAIGN EYES ‘SKIABLE FUTURE’ FOR WHISTLER

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When asked about addressing unaffordability, Morden credited the Resort Municipality of Whistler for its Balance Model Initiative, which aims to consider the implications of future growth and devise strategies to better achieve Whistler’s community goals.

Acknowledging she might not be as wellversed on the issues as Whistler’s current council, Morden said she is committed to getting up to speed and noted her “extensive” volunteer experience with various community organizations, including serving as current vice chair at Arts Whistler.

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“I’m a hard worker. I’m a consensus builder. I have common sense. I want to learn everything there is that goes along with this position,” she said. “So I might not be as informed as some of the other council members at this time, but I want to learn—and I think that gives me a fresh perspective, too.”

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“That definitely played a factor in all of it, and that had me flip-flopping one way or another, being in the public eye and seeing what my mom went through,” said Morden. “But my mom is very resilient, and I think I inherited that trait as well. I can let things roll off my shoulder after I process them. I’m a very resilient person and I can put that stuff behind me, move forward and still do the work.”

“I think we should do a deep dive into … making the passenger train available again, and I think the 2030 [Olympic] Games might be a great opportunity in that regard,” she noted. With a 14-month-old daughter at home and another child due in January, Morden reassured voters that she intends to maintain her council duties, if elected, after giving birth, and doesn’t anticipate missing significant time at municipal hall.

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While light on specifics, Morden said her platform centres on three core issues: housing, affordability and transportation. On the housing front, she said she’d like to build on the work already being done at the Whistler Housing Authority (WHA). “In regards to affordable housing, it’s not necessarily having new ideas, it’s just going along with things that we’ve seen have already worked, such as the WHA and that goal of having 75 per cent of the workforce being housed in Whistler,” she explained. “I think we need to stick to those parameters and goals and build more employeerestricted housing at every opportunity.”

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WHEN CONSIDERING a go at local politics, Jessie Morden couldn’t help but look to the example set by her mom, former Whistler Mayor and four-term councillor Nancy Wilhelm-Morden. Through much of her life, she saw first-hand just how much work goes into serving the community. And it still wasn’t enough to dissuade her from vying for a council seat in Whistler’s upcoming election.

“I think that’s a very good piece to work off of,” she Mordensaid.isalso in favour of increasing passenger rail service to the resort, using existing infrastructure, as one way to mitigate vehicle traffic on the Sea to Sky Highway.

The 34-year-old legal administrative assistant is a born-and-bred Whistlerite, which she believes would give her a unique outlook at the council table if elected Oct. 15. “I’ve played in the parks here. I went to schools here. I’ve biked on the Valley Trail. I’ve taken the bus to go to work. I’ve worked in the hospitality industry here,” Morden said. “I’ve grown up in Whistler and I think that adds a nice perspective to the mix. I love my community and now as a new mom, I want to provide those same experiences to my daughter—and I want that same opportunity for young families.”

“I don’t think it should hinder anything. I have an amazing support system in my husband and my family and they can help me through it all,” she said.

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Goodbye, Glacier Fresh A Q&A MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR REUNITING WHISTLERITES WITH THEIR LOST TREASURES BY MEGAN LALONDE

CHRIS HEDGES : My wife and I have made the decision to move to Newfoundland, where she was born and raised. She’s lived here 13 years, her family still lives there and we’ve just been pushed out of the real estate market, like so many other stories in the Sea to Sky. We just can’t do the million-dollar mortgage. We both do fairly well, we have two awesome, fearless sons and we’ve made the decision for home ownership, to give them a better opportunity and a better life in the future. And that means moving to the East Coast.

What led you to diving and to starting Glacier Fresh? I’ve been an avid diver since the early 2000s. I had the opportunity to go overseas and learn, and I carried the skillset all the way through and had a passion for being underwater. Back in 2017, a woman … dropped her keys off of Blueberry Docks, so she was looking for somebody that could swim down and find them. A mutual friend of ours said, “Hey Hedges, you’re a diver,” and I’m like, “Yeah, you know what, I’ve got my own gear too, let’s make this happen.” So I went for a dive, she reposted it on Facebook and I guess the rest of history. In your post [in the Whistler Summer Facebook group], you listed a few of the many, many items you’ve found, but what would you say are some of your most memorable?

There’s a lot. There really, really is. The first set of keys, [I was] obviously super stoked. It’s the feeling of helping somebody … It’s like I’m a treasure hunter, and instead of just treasure hunting, we’re returning this to the person that lost it. One of the most sentimental ones was a young girl, her watch came off her wrist in Rainbow Park, in a really unknown little area between the two docks, and the story was it was actually her father’s watch, and her father had passed away, so there was some real heavy, sentimental attachment to this … I went back two or three times, just on my “It’s like I’m a treasure hunter, and instead of just treasure hunting, we’re returning this to the person that lost it.”

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IT’S A PERFECT summer day. The sun is shining, the water is glistening and the temperature is just hot enough to warrant a dive off the dock. You climb up the ladder, reach for your towel, and then you hear it: The“Plop.”sound of your iPhone dropping into the water. Your iPhone that was lying precariously on that towel, filled with all your photos and memories of the last year of adventures.Forthelast six summers, longtime Whistler local and scuba diver Chris Hedges has been helping reunite locals and visitors who find themselves in similarly unfortunate situations with precious possessions lost in Sea to Sky lakes. He has also worked for the mountain since 2000, and has spent winters ski patrolling since 2009. Hedges worked his way up to a volunteer coordinator position overseeing the entire Whistler Patrol volunteer team. But after 23 years in the resort and hundreds of objects found— from wedding rings and colourblind glasses to GoPros and drones—Hedges recently announced in a Facebook post that he’s saying goodbye to his business, Glacier Fresh Diving, as he and his wife, Jess, and their two boys pack up and head east. Pique caught up with Hedges to chat about his time in Whistler, water clarity, and some of the more memorable items he’s found resting beneath the surface. This conversation has been edited for length and clarity. So what’s the deal? Are you leaving town altogether, or just hanging up the oxygen tank?

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It’s been an honour and a pleasure. I hope I was able to contribute, to make someone’s life a little better. For all the people that I wasn’t able to locate their lost item, I apologize, but like I’ve said to a lot of people, it’s just a thing. It’s just an object, it’s just a phone or a set of keys. They’re replaceable, so be kind to each other and stay safe and stay awesome. I love this [f’ing] place. I think back to 23 years here, I’ve found a little niche market, and it’s been great that people have been so supportive. I wish things were different and we were sticking around. If anyone’s going to continue on this legacy of any kind, I wish them all the best. Just be safe and know what you’re doing out there. n

DEEP IMPACT Chris Hedges has been diving for Whistlerites’ lost treasures since 2017.

Every lake here has its challenges. Green Lake is like diving in milk. In early spring, late winter, it’s pretty clear; by July, August, it’s like bright green milk—impossible to see a thing. In all the other lakes, there’s such rich sediment and organic matter on the bottom that once you stir it up, you’ve lost all visibility. Lost Lake is absolutely terrible, it’s called Lost Lake for a reason. That’s my lowest success rate … Cat Lake’s pretty clear, Brohm Lake’s pretty clear, Nita’s pretty clear. But once you get down, Nita—shockingly, for our smallest lake in the area—Nita, other than Green Lake, is probably the deepest that I’ve been in. There was a group of people from the city that flipped their canoe or paddleboard or had an incident out there … and lost all their stuff. I got down to about 60, 70 feet. Pitch black. I used my light to look for what I was looking for but I had absolutely no luck. Super dark, super deep. But they’re all fun. It’s all unique, it’s all an adventure. People usually put me over the spot where they think they lost something. If they do, I usually find what I’m looking for. But it’s 10-per-cent skill and 90-per-cent luck—like a needle in a haystack. What’s next for you? When you head to Newfoundland are you going to continue the diving over there? Apparently there’s good diving there too. I plan on continuing exactly what I’m doing in the east, in some form, either recreational diving, and if I get asked to go find something somewhere in the water on the East Coast, I am happy to oblige. Amazing. Is there anything else you’d like the community to know?

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NEWS WHISTLER own accord and I found it and I was able to track her down and get it back to her. So that one kind of stands out … There’s been a lot of jewelry, a lot of iPhones. But even though it’s just the phone, it’s that thing where some of these people were here for the season, so they created a year’s worth of memories of photos or contacts … I always felt like I was giving them back their last, you know, 12-month adventure they’ve had. I did have a rather scary thing happen at Alta Lake, where I thought I saw a hand sticking out of the silt. I shook my head and kind of ignored it. I was circling around, looking for whatever I was looking for. It’s very dark, very low-visibility, and all of a sudden I feel a hand kind of go across my chest, to which I took a deep, gasping breath and reached out and grabbed it, and yes, it was a hand. But yes, that hand was attached to a mannequin. I’m not sure how our fellow Whistlerite ended up in the middle of the lake, but I did leave him there to give somebody else a good fright. I sat him upright though, in a sitting position. So out of all those dives, how many items would you say you’ve found—hundreds? Hundreds, absolutely. I think I did a quick tally, just off the top my head in my Facebook post, but it’s in and around 50 iPhones, probably around 10 sets of prescription glasses … maybe a few dozen sets of keys, and then random jewelry, three wedding rings. What are the best and worst lakes in your opinion to dive in, in Whistler?

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THE GOAL IS FOR THE VETERANS TO NOT JUST REACH THE PEAK, BUT TO FINISH THE HIKE ARMED WITH EDUCATION THAT WILL IMPROVE THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE BY MEGAN LALONDE HIKING THROUGH the steep, rocky peaks of the Coast Mountains can be a gruelling endeavour, even for the approximately 80 per cent of Canadians who don’t live with chronic pain. Toss unrelenting discomfort into the mix, and even making it to the trailhead becomes its own uphill battle.

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It’s something Tom Hoppe found out first-hand last year when he set out to climb Garibaldi Provincial Park’s iconic spire Black Tusk alongside physician Dr. Lindsay Rite, director of integrated health at CHANGEpain, a multidisciplinary, complex pain centre in Vancouver. Hoppe, a military veteran who resides on the Sunshine Coast, first started working with Rite to learn about not only how to manage his own pain, but how veterans’ and military members’ mindsets impact their healing journeys—“the way we’re trained in military, how we push through pain,” Hoppe explained. Getting back into nature and hiking—and to Black Tusk’s summit, more specifically—was one of the goals he set.

“In the military, it’s mission first, self last. So if you always put yourself last and you push through pain, that is a challenge,” he said.

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“To watch the true elation that he had when he achieved that goal was really quite meaningful,” remembered Rite. Now, Hoppe and Rite are preparing to share that same experience with a group of 13—eight of whom are also veterans—on Saturday, Aug. 27, with participants heading to Whistler from across the country for the event. Blackcomb Helicopters will fly the hikers to the company’s tenure near Pemberton, where the group will complete an approximately sevenkilometre hike through the alpine terrain. The event aims to help participants set goals while managing their chronic pain. Though military veterans suffer from chronic pain at twice the rate of the civilian population, said Hoppe, strategies to deal with chronic pain and promote safe movement aren’t exactly topics that are addressed during basic training.

Plus, “when we joined the military, we were looking for adventure, achievement and comradeship,” Hoppe added. “That’s part of what this hike is doing, plus the knowledge at the end.” Veterans also have to contend with the psychosocial effects of “the identity change” that accompanies leaving the military, said Hoppe.

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“My intent was to develop a hike that’s not just about a hike,” said the organizer. In the months leading up to the hike, participants have been meeting virtually with professionals like Rite every second week to learn about topics like chronic pain, safe movement and nutrition, for example. The goal is for the veterans to not just reach the peak, but to finish the hike armed with education that will improve their quality of life, Hoppe explained.

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Three people sustained minor injuries after their vehicle rolled over in Whistler last week and almost went into a nearby ditch. In a release, police said the rollover took place Saturday, Aug. 20 on Highway 99 near Autumn Drive (in Emerald). BC Ambulance and the Whistler Fire Rescue Service also attended the scene. The Whistler RCMP said impairment was not a factor in the accident.

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DRIVER SLAPPED FOR IMPAIRED DRIVING ON HWY. 99 Whistler police nabbed a drunk driver last week who was spotted speeding on Highway 99, near Lorimer Road. On Friday, Aug. 19, an officer on patrol noticed a car “being driven unsafely and speeding,” according to a release. After pulling the driver over, the officer determined the driver was over the legal limit. The driver was issued a 90-day immediate roadside prohibition and had their car impounded for 30 days. Police said there were a total of 161 new files in the past week, including five reports of theft from vehicles, two Mental Health Act calls, and three collision investigations. Anyone with additional information on the above files is asked to contact the Whistler RCMP at 604-932-3044, or Sea to Sky Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477, or online at solvecrime.ca, to remain anonymous.

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“This hike and that podcast are all part of getting veterans educated, but it doesn’t just help veterans,” said Hoppe. “This information will help anybody [struggling with chronic pain] out there.” The hike is, ideally, the first of many in the years to come. “To be able to not only help the veterans by educating them and finding services that help, but really to walk this journey with them and bring them to a point where they can really see that so much is achievable … is a very powerful thing,” said Rite. “I think the hike is quite unique in that way. There aren’t a lot of programs out there that are such a tangible goal in a way, that I think is transformative; life changing.”

HIKING VETS FROM PAGE 28 of Excellence (CPCoE) and clinics like CHANGEpain, Hoppe said. Hoppe is currently chair of CPCoE’s advisory council for veterans. He served a 20-year stint in the Canadian Armed Forces beginning in 1982—including a tour of Bosnia, during which he rescued three children who were being shot at by a sniper, earning him both the Governor General’s Meritorious Service Cross and Medal of Bravery for his courage under fire—before following up his military service with a career in public safety and security. After leaving the military, Hoppe completed a Business Administration and Human Resources program, as well as a Master of Arts in Leadership and Training, and remains heavily involved with veteran advocacy. CHANGEpain, meanwhile, works with the CPCoE as one of the centres of excellence for Canadian vets. Hoppe and the CPCoE also launched a podcast earlier this year, called “The Most Painful Podcast,” bringing in experts to talk about pain and other related topics.

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Dunlop has lived in Whistler for the best part of 18 years, working locally as a fitness instructor and restaurant manager “I taught fitness during the day and worked in the restaurants at night, she says. But when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, it shut down many of the hospitality businesses in the community, prompting Dunlop to explore other options

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“I love the diversity of people and conditions I see, plus the challenge of connecting with each patient—some of whom have been suffering with chronic issues for years —and trying to solve that puzzle of what’s causing their illness.

It helped that previously she was an ardent customer, and the store’s focus was a good fit with her, adding she appreciates, as a shopper, when presented with a welcoming environment and a selection of pleasing items. “Plus, the store was laid out so nicely, I knew I could walk into it and find that perfect gift or something quick for the kitchen.”

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A local resident and new owner of Whistler Kitchen Works welcomes the challenge of running the popular village store Beth Dunlop is in a good place.

The long-time Whistler resident recently tapped into her experience in the community and made a career change, buying a well-known, local store Whistler Kitchen Works and then dedicated herself to learning about what it takes to continue its success as a mainstay business in the resort town

“The store has been a success for 27 years. I am buying different items that are reflective of my taste, however, there are so many great things that continue to be popular, so there is no reason to change them, she says.

“I needed a change and a challenge, and buying the store just felt right,” Dunlop says. She took over ownership in February 2022 and has been busy since “It wasn’t easy, but at the same time it wasn’t something I couldn’t handle, or grasp, ” Dunlop says. “You just have to be organized and honest.”

“It reaches out equally to both locals needing essential items and tourists wanting to take a nice gift home with them. It’s that fine balance Dunlop is seeking to continue, while at the same time adding her own touches.

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“I feel incredibly proud and privileged to have won those awards,” he says.“They picked me out of all the trainers in town, and there are so many here and so many good ones. It humbles me It really does.”

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“There has been loads of demand to have more exotic flavours and desserts in Whistler,” Dewi says.

“I take a lot of pride in it and use a lot of great ingredients. I’m really proud of how it’s going and the quality of the products that we serve. ”

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“Moving keeps you physically strong, happy and healthy, he says. “If you’re moving every day, you’re winning. That’s my mantra. You don’t have to lift the biggest weights or climb the highest mountain, but if you get out there every day, you’ll have a better quality of life.”

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However, contrary to what some might think, Robinson’s boot camp is far from a torture session for clients but rather focuses on movement to keep them healthy and active.

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“If you’ve had an injury and you’re coming from physical therapy, keeping the momentum is important,” Robinson explains.

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Filed Aug. 10, the legal petition against Shin Campos and his wife gives the owners 45 days from the date of the order to cease renting the ground-floor suite and remove the sink and dishwasher that were allegedly installed, without a permit, in breach of the Village’s building bylaw.

In May, the VOP sent a letter to registered homeowners in Tiyata informing them of an impending inspection to identify houses with an illegal secondary suite, and the subsequent removal of those suites.

In an interview, Campos said he was initially unclear on the zoning in Tiyata Village when purchasing the home, but believed he was permitted to build a secondary suite based on some of the chatter in the neighbourhood. He claimed he has also heard of “multiple” other suites in the area.

Pique asked the VOP how many homes have been identified—either voluntarily or via inspection—as having non-conforming suites, and did not hear back by press time.

‘I know that we need housing’: Pemberton homeowner refusing to remove illegal suite on principle OF PEMBERTON PETITIONS TIYATA OWNER WHO BUILT AND RENTED SECONDARY SUITE IN CONTRAVENTION OF ZONING BY BRANDON BARRETT A PEMBERTON homeowner in Tiyata Village says he is refusing to remove the secondary suite he had built and rented out in contravention of local zoning, after the Village of Pemberton (VOP) petitioned him in B.C.’s Supreme Court.

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“You know what I’ll have to do, and I think it’s within my legal rights to do, is advertise it as staff housing that’s perfect for 10 to 12 people, with four parking spots.” CAMPOS

It remains unclear what the VOP’s crackdown could mean for Tiyata renters currently residing in an illegal suite. The VOP declined to comment specifically on its recent legal petition, with the matter still before the courts, but in June, told Pique in a statement it would “work with individual property owners through any transition that may be required and will provide generous timelines” following removal of the suites. The current zoning for Tiyata Village was adopted in 2014, establishing the CD-5 Zone for a small lot subdivision. Due to the small lot concept and design, secondary suites were not contemplated due to the density of the area, according to the VOP.

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“It has come to the Village’s attention that several properties in Tiyata Village may contain non-conforming secondary suites,” read the letter, which asked homeowners who do not have a secondary suite to complete a Statutory Declaration Form stating such.

“The Village has requested that the Respondents voluntarily remove the Suite, but the Respondents have not agreed to the Village’s request,” the petition read. In its filing, the VOP claimed Campos was also in breach of the BC Building Code by not installing a 45-minute fire separation between the suite and the rest of the residence.TheVOP is seeking the costs of its legal action as well as any further relief as deemed by the court.

Several of the early builds in Tiyata were reportedly constructed to include a large rec room with a separate back entrance that could resemble a secondary or so-called “nanny suite”—except for the fact they had no kitchen installed. Following the building inspector’s final inspection of the Tiyata Boulevard property in June of last year, the VOP alleged Campos converted a portion of the ground-floor residence into a suite by installing a sink, full-sized fridge, microwave, dishwasher, kitchen-style cabinetry and a 240-volt outlet. Campos said he learned his property was non-conforming after the VOP notified him there had been complaints about the ground-floor suite, which he continues to rent to a young couple (a family of three rents out the main floor). He remains steadfast in his refusal to remove the suite, pointing to the Sea to Sky’s ongoing housing crisis as justification.

“I know maybe I did wrong, but after living around here for a long, long time, I know that we need housing. This is really what it all comes down to, in my opinion, is the housing problem.” he said. Campos went on to question the philosophy behind zoning regulations that prohibit secondary suites, but wouldn’t prevent him from cramming a dozen tenants into a home—something he is considering if he does end up removing the suite.“You know what I’ll have to do, and I think it’s within my legal rights to do, is advertise it as staff housing that’s perfect for 10 to 12 people, with four parking spots,” he said. “I’ll probably be able to make two to three times more than I actually make now, and I don’t actually want to do that, but I could because that’s still considered a single-family house.”

“I would say [to the VOP], ‘Hey, are you going to look at every other place in the Glen or the Tiyata? Are you going to inspect every place?’ Because 100 per cent, for sure, there are other suites in Tiyata,” he said. “I actually don’t know what the big deal is. Why wouldn’t they just change the Contributingzoning?”totheconfusion was the layout of the house itself, a four-bedroom, four-bathroom property, with two large flex“Allrooms.you have to do is look at it and be like, ‘Well, it’s basically built to have a suite on the main floor, for that style of house,’” Campos said. “I know the zoning doesn’t allow it, but at the same time, I thought, ‘Housing is a priority in Whistler and Pemberton.’ We had put in the suite and then I thought I could at least get a couple [to move in].”

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So long, Buddy BUDDY THE BEAR was euthanized on Aug. 12, 2022. The last I saw of Buddy, the day prior, his huge butt and swinging ballsack (who knew, right?) were beating a hasty retreat over the wall of the Creekside Market parking lot. He was fleeing the likely intimidating sight of my car, adorned with a canoe like some giant colonial bicorn, and its alarmingly annoying horn (thank you, Mazda) after appearing suddenly from the right as my partner Asta and I entered the lot. I made the split-second decision to haze him in this manner as he walked with strange impunity toward a row of RVs that had been parked there for days during Crankworx. It had the necessary effect of sending Buddy back over the wall from whence he’d come. I say “necessary” because this wasn’t early morning or late at night when one might expect a stealth, Yogi-style interrogation by a curious bear, but at about 5 p.m.—the hottest, busiest part of the day with the lot full of vehicles and seething with people. The dozens of men, women and children in the lot and general area (sidewalks, adjacent Valley Trail) within 50 metres of Buddy included confused bikers, terrified tourists and not a few stray locals on quotidian errands thinking “Meh, another bear.” Asta and I live in Creekside and well-knew Buddy (we called him that because, well, Canada). Although he was an intimidating sight to behold, we had only ever observed him bearishly skulking about doing bearish things. Those details aside, the situational reality that afternoon was that a massive adult black bear had just intentionally stepped into a busy crucible of humanity— RV hangouts, post-ride mountain-bike bro downs, darting kids, strollers, (mercifully) leashed dogs, barbecues, beers and many bags of groceries. That he wilfully chose to do so was troubling enough, but given his apparent determination to cross through it, any further advance could have sparked a chaoticAftermêlée.Buddy departed, Asta and I exchanged WTAF looks. That was weird … Sketchy Dangerous What was Buddy thinking? And yet, we had no thought to report such a clear anomaly to the Conservation Officer Service (COS); first, Buddy responded to the hazing and nothing had happened; second, how many calls do the COS get a day from worrywarts saying they saw a bear on a trail/road/parking lot? More on our minds was that with so many people around, Buddy had nowhere to go and might dart across a roadway and get himself killed. He managed the latter anyway. At 2 a.m. the next morning he walked through the motion-activated front door of Nita Lake Lodge, grabbed a snack and left. Then he visited Roland’s and made a mess trying to get into the kitchen. As a final act, literally, he sniffed his way into the second floor of a home and decided to stay even when the COS arrived, despite an obvious way out, sealing his demise. Did he need to be killed? At that point, yes; he’d clearly put himself on an irreversible trajectory of being a threat to public safety. Could this have been averted if we’d reported the parking lot escapade? Likely not. What suddenly turned Buddy into a menace to himself is hard to say. The people in the RVs—some of them illegally camped there—had been cooking and snacking there for days, so Buddy might have found easy food rewards and returned for more. Illegal vehicle camping in Whistler right now is off the hook—people literally living in the Interpretive Forest parking lot and other areas of Cheakamus, as well as side streets and lots around Function and Creekside. The smell of food-tinged garbage and human waste is everywhere, anathema to us but tempting to a bear. There’s also the issue of Whistler’s bears acting weirdly all summer, related in whole or part— depending who you ask—to an anomalous berry season; FireSmart activity taking away both habitat and food; an illegal, wildlife-displacing clear-cut of a key berry patch south of Whistler; bears spooked by construction of the new Creekside gondola. When things don’t go according to the rhythms animals live by, they try to adapt. But if that proves difficult or insufficient, they get stressed, and their behaviour can change in an instant. This much we know. What we don’t always know are what those stressors are. Food is obvious, but what of other potential pressures like widespread habitat loss, an increase in noise, people and vehicles, or a shift in the times people are active? Most animals will counter by altering their own rhythms or space utilization away from the new paradigm, but there will always be some that go the opposite way of learning to exploit changing realities—such as female bears with cubs choosing to sleep close to human infrastructure as protection against large

males. Whistler’s high number of bears is artificially subsidized, meaning that anthropogenic increases in food sources like ski runs and golf courses support a larger population of them than the normal environment, which would typically see fewer cubs and larger territories for individuals. These considerations lead to interesting questions: How is this excess number of bears in a growing urban environment playing out? What adjustments are individual bears making to adapt to people? To each other? How do they move around in this environment? (I could actually draw a map of surreptitious bear trails/beds in Whistler that would freak many people out.) What happens when outsiders like Buddy (he wasn’t tagged and we’d never seen him before April) show up, whose mom maybe didn’t teach him about how to navigate Whistler’s human footprint? If anyone is conducting empirical studies of such things in Whistler, I haven’t heard about it. And if not, that’s a massive opportunity for the Resort Municipality of Whistler to get involved in proactive wildlife research by partnering with a post-secondary institution; if it can afford $4.6-million washrooms, it can probably scrounge up a $10,000 bursary or fellowship for an MSc or PhD student to study bear movement and behaviour in the community and return very useable data on how to better manage our relationship with the bruins.Inthe meantime, What happened to Buddy? We’ll never know precisely, but I’m pretty sure it was all of us. Leslie Anthony is a biologist, writer and author of several popular books on environmental science.

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Arts Whistler marks 40 years of nurturing the arts in an unapologetic sports town

“It really was dark and stormy, I swear,” recalls Glenda Bartosh, Pique columnist and founder of the Whistler Arts Council, which would eventually rebrand as Arts Whistler. “It was a dull, rainy, horrible night in January, and I thought, ‘What if I started a group like an arts council, that people could join, and make it bigger than the sum of its parts? For the people by the people.’”

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It feels poetic—if not a bit on the nose—that Whistler’s largest and longestrunning organizationarts can trace its origins to a dark and stormy night during the winter of 1982.

Growing up in Edmonton, Bartosh was exposed to the arts from an early age. After winning an art contest in Grade 1, she was enrolled in classes at the Edmonton Art Gallery, and in high school, held aspirations of becoming a commercial artist herself. In her adult years, she lived at various points in New York, San Diego and finally Vancouver, eagerly taking in each city’s cultural offerings.

Determined to fill that void, Bartosh happened to have just the right megaphone to amplify her community callout. Then the owner, publisher and editor of the Whistler Question, Bartosh leveraged the resort’s original paper of record to help get the word out about launching a new arts council.

“I had the Whistler Question and I could use it. I didn’t have to bounce the idea off an editor,” she explains. “I knew I could leverage the Question, the power of the press, and get people to come out and get interested in the events. I didn’t ask anyone, I didn’t bounce the idea off of anyone. I just thought of it one night.” Bartosh’s shoot-first, ask-questions-later approach was indicative of the community at the time, then a plucky ski-bum enclave of only a few hundred year-round residents, and

“I’m an old hippie and in the ’70s, all those creative forms of expression were huge in culture and a really big part of my life,” she says. So, by the time Bartosh landed in Whistler in the early ’80s, she yearned for more of the arts and culture that had been such an important part of her life.

“I came to Whistler and—have you ever heard the term ‘hippie jocks?’” she asks. “I was never a jock. Just think of living in Whistler at that time: skiing was so big, there was no snowboarding yet, and I was never athletic. So that hole for me was art and the town was very sports-oriented.”

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“What was exciting for everyone on the board, if you had an idea you could probably run with it and make it happen,” says Joan Richoz, who joined the council in 1983 and has since filled virtually every executive position on the board, from secretary to treasurer to chair. (Richoz’s commitment to Arts Whistler runs so deep that she served on the board for 32 years straight, until 2015, when she took a year off after the organization changed its bylaws to add term limits. She is now on another break following her latest six-year term.) One of those early concepts the council ran with at full speed was the Whistler Children’s Festival, launched in 1983 and today is Whistler’s longest-running event. The idea was hatched largely because the school, Myrtle Philip Community School, at the time didn’t offer a fine arts program. Margaret Long, a teacher herself, envisioned an immersive festival that was arts-based, rather than performance-based. “It just all coalesced. The town was ripe for it,” Bartosh says. “[Long] had Heather, her daughter, and she had been going to the children’s festival in Vancouver, but there was a big problem with the children’s festival in Vancouver: the kids didn’t do anything. They just sat passively and watched. Margaret would make sure our children’s arts festival allowed kids to actually do things, like paint or make art or dance. The idea was participation, not just watching.”

It’s not hard to see the throughline from the children’s festival of 40 years ago to the slate of programming Arts Whistler offers today. Several of the organization’s anchor programs—like The Teeny Tiny Art Show, which asks experienced artists and eager amateurs alike to submit a smallbut-mighty work on a three-by-three-inch canvas; or the Anonymous Art Show, a major fundraiser and frenzied live auction of works by local artists of all stripes whose names aren’t revealed until a piece is sold— are designed to encourage participation and break down the traditional stigma attached to the stodgier segments of the art world, aligning with Bartosh’s original vision for an arts council that was democratic, inclusive and community-led.

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it set the tone for the Whistler Arts Council’s next two Afterdecades.placing an ad in the paper, Bartosh was pleasantly surprised when around 15 people turned up to a Delta conference room for the council’s inaugural meeting. Despite Whistler’s apparent lack of culture—or perhaps because of it—it became clear locals were hungry for more. Attendance boomed, business owners bent over backwards to sponsor events, restaurateurs copped visiting performers free meals, and hotels offered space for meetings or exhibitions free of charge.

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“That’s something we recognize we can do: inviting more people from the community to be part of the process, like the Teeny Tiny Show. It’s the gateway drug for artists. They do Teeny Tiny and think, ‘How badly could a three-by-threeinch piece go? It’s small. I can do this.’ They feel empowered and then maybe that work sells for a few bucks so they decide they’re going to do the Anonymous

“There was never any doubt in our minds that it would work. We knew we were on the right track and we were confident it would spark people,” Bartosh says. “And look at the businesses, really supportive; the hotels, really supportive. The restaurants, gift shops, everyone.”

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That enthusiasm extended to the nascent council’s first board of directors, too. Without any staff or major funding to speak of, the board of those days took on any number of responsibilities, whether it was conceptualizing and organizing events, serving as production crew or manning the ticket stand. And if they had a vision for a new program or event, chances were good it would bear fruit.

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The resulting festival, chock-a-block with immersive workshops and live demos, alongside a handful of stage shows, reflected the arts council that produced it: hands-on, participatory, engaging.

Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) commissioned an arts plan that included several recommendations, two of which would entirely overhaul Arts Whistler’s organizational structure. One was to add an executive director, the other was to add members from Whistler’s resort stakeholders to the board. Niedermayer, Arts Whistler’s first executive director, still remembers the lengthy interview process she went through before being hired in 2002. Living in Nelson at the time, she would make the long drive down for a series of interviews she did with as many as eight or nine people at a time. (She requested they cover her gas money, to no avail: “I said to them later, ‘I should’ve known then you were a bunch of cheap buggers,’” Niedermayer recalls with a laugh.) “Talk about intimidating. What the hell? I’ve never been interviewed by nine people,” she says. “But they were so keen to make the right decision that they had a

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RMOW. Kirby Brown was there from Whistler Blackcomb; he was the employee experience manager at the time. A staff member from Tourism Whistler was there. Board members from Arts Whistler. It was ridiculous how many people were in this friggin’ interview.”

sophisticated and some of those artists throw their hat in,” says Mo Douglas, Arts Whistler’s executive director, who took over the role from Doti Niedermayer in 2016. Building on the standard set by the children’s festival, as the Whistler Arts Council matured through the ’80s and into the ’90s, its programming evolved with it, continuing the organization’s trend of punching above its weight, even with stretched resources. A prime example is the performance series organized by Richoz and Tamsin Miller, which brought a steady lineup of burgeoning bands to the resort, many of which would go on to greater fame in the “Whenindustry.Ilook back at the names of the performers we had, a lot of them are bigger names now, which is the whole point of touring artists,” Richoz says. “It was so much fun, getting to meet all these performers from across the province and the country. Sometimes they’d come over to our house for dinner. We got things done pretty quickly came burnout. There was, after so long, only so much a completely volunteer-led group could do. “It got to the point where people were getting really burned out,” Richoz says. “It’s a lot to put on these events, with very little funding. We didn’t have the municipal funding that there is now. It was BC Arts Council grants, Touring Council grants. It was getting hard.” ‘We realized we had to evolve’ By the turn of the millennium, as Whistler sat at a crossroads between its past as a hardscrabble ski-bum haven and its future as a global tourism behemoth, a sentiment that seemed to prevail across the wider community became apparent at Arts Whistler: it was time to level up. “We realized we had to evolve,” Richoz says. “After 20 years of being totally volunteer run, we needed to get more support from the municipality.”

Even still, living as far away as Nelson, Niedermayer knew she shouldn’t rush into anything. “I’m not upending my life to come here if it’s going to be a big mistake. For me, it was as much an interview of them as it was of me,” she says. Then, just like it did for Bartosh when she was first forming the council, things seemed to magically fall into place. Niedermayer already knew she wanted to be closer to her aging mother, who lived in Vancouver, and Whistler checked that box. Then, when she was looking for an affordable place to live, Richoz connected her with a contractor who had just finished installing a suite at a home in Alpine, and he put her in touch with the landlord.

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“I think it gave us opportunity because we were freely able to program the space as much as we wanted and we were able to create new relationships, new partnerships and new alliances with commercial and community renters,” Niedermayer says. “We were now able to say, ‘OK, arts community, we’re able to give you the space at an affordable rate,’ so now we’re creating better connections with the rest of the arts community.”

“I remember saying to Joan, ‘You’ve written really good grant applications. You’ve really built a great program. We have a following, we have an audience, we have respect from the funders. You guys have brought professional performers to town. This is awesome,’” says Niedermayer. “There were a couple of programs they had built and created that I inherited that really gave me a solid foundation to start from. I was actually really impressed by that. It was really great to come into that and build new programs.”

“We spent all of our time and energy during the Cultural Olympiad hiring and giving exposure to local artists,” Niedermayer says. For many local artists, it offered the chance to both refine and promote their practice, not always an easy feat for creative types, doubly so in a town where the arts have always played second or even third fiddle to sports and nature. The historic moment also pushed local creatives to take themselves and their work seriously, the rising Olympic tide lifting all boats. “That’s when we started doing live painting, and taking people who’ve never painted in front of a crowd before, like [late, great local artist] Chili Thom or whoever, and going, ‘We’re going to put you on the street, and now you’re going to have to answer questions and engage with the public and you have to show up on time,’’’ Neidermayer says. “Are you a professional artist or aren’t you? Are you gonna show up and do your job or are you just going to do it for fun?” The years leading up to the Games would come with another sea-change for Arts Whistler: solidifying its home base at the Maury Young Arts Centre (then Millennium Place), with the RMOW, which owns the facility, eventually tapping the organization to manage the building and take care of venue bookings.

“It was one of those situations where it was meant to be,” Niedermayer remembers. “You look at it and you go, ‘Everything happened fast and it was virtually seamless.’ It was just a sign that it was the right decision.” That right decision was reiterated again as Niedermayer settled into her new job and learned more about what the organization had achieved to that point. “I walked into this organization expecting quite a mess, or things to be really Mickey Mouse, because I knew I was the first fulltime professional there,” she says. Instead, she found a professional slate of programming with a dedicated following, funded largely through grant applications, and a tireless board eager to take the organization forward into its next iteration.

The next step for the council was hiring paid staff. As the organization grew in scope and acquired more municipal funding, it went from a one-woman show with just Niedermayer at the helm, to first adding an assistant, then someone in marketing, then admin staff. “As we went forward and took on more programs and got more money, I was able to hire more and more people,” she says. “We went from a staff of one to a staff of 20 when I left [in 2015].”

The additional manpower (or womanpower, considering the predominant makeup of the staff, a trend that continues today at Arts Whistler) couldn’t have come at a better time. In July 2003, less than a year after Niedermayer came onboard, Whistler was named as a 2010 Winter Olympic host, a golden opportunity to showcase the community—and more importantly, for Arts Whistler’s purposes, the community’s inherent culture—to the wider world. In short order, Niedermayer was contacted by a former colleague who was charged with helping organize the Games’ cultural programming. “He said, ‘Look, I really think the arts council needs to be a part of this, because you are the arts for Whistler and we want to work with you.’ He was very much a community guy, and I said, ‘Sure, bring it on,’” she remembers. “That propelled the arts to move really fast in getting ready for the Games that were coming.” In honour of being awarded the Winter Games, Whistler launched Celebration 2010, an annual slate of live performances meant to herald the coming Olympics in the years leading up to the Games, as well as hosting the Cultural Olympiad in 2008 and ’09, a watershed moment for the resort’s arts scene. Featuring a diverse array of more than 300 performances and 10 exhibitions across the Sea to Sky and Lower Mainland, the Olympiad was a mixture of Canadian, B.C. and local talent, the latter also working behind the scenes wherever possible.

“There is a demand from the community for outside performances and work. Then there is the demand by local artists to be given an opportunity to be showcased and recognized and to further their professional career. It is a balancing act and it is difficult and complicated,” says Niedermayer. “I think it’s any organization’s challenge when they’re a local community organization trying to fill those two shoes. You kind of have your eye on both.”

Weaving the tapestry

With the momentum of the Olympics behind it, the RMOW commissioned a report in 2011 that examined Whistler’s potential as a cultural tourism destination. Authored by Steven Thorne, the big takeaway from the report, entitled “A Tapestry of Place,” was that visitors were looking for “authentic, place-based experiences” when coming to a new destination. While it doesn’t sound like much of a revelation today, a decade ago, Niedermayer says the report—spearheaded by the RMOW’s then manager of strategic partnerships, John Rae, who has long been one of municipal hall’s most fervent champions of the local arts—was done in part to convince the powers that be that Whistler’s cultural offerings were significant latest issue of favourite read in Whistler.

With the management of Maury Young came a handful of new dedicated staff members, as well as a closer working relationship with the RMOW. The move also speaks to the tricky balancing act Arts Whistler still has to strike today, between its core mandate of supporting and furthering the local arts and its goal of putting butts in seats at the Maury Young theatre through big-ticket acts from outside of the resort.

at least considering how plugged in our world is today, it was actually a print publication—just like the Question before it—that helped move the needle on public awareness of the arts in Whistler, according to Douglas. In 2016, Arts Whistler received a $489,000 Canadian Heritage grant to grow its online and print marketing. That led to a revamped website that continues to serve as a one-stop shop for all cultural events and activities across the Sea to Sky—including programming not produced by Arts Whistler—as well as the seasonal print brochure, Arts Scene

And yet, for all the progress that’s been made, there is of course still room for the arts to become a bigger component of Whistler life. So what does the future hold for Whistler’s largest arts organization?

“As Tamsin Miller used to say, in Whistler, there is life above the thighs. Because everything here is focused on the thighs, on sports, on skiing, on snowboarding, on biking. But there’s more than that here.” Part of the uphill battle is the transience inherent to Whistler; with each annual influx of new faces comes a fresh batch of residents, many of whom either put their creative pursuits to the wayside while they’re here or are simply unaware of the artistic opportunities already available to them.

“The physical presence of it was very important for Whistler and the Sea to Sky community to understand that arts and culture is really vibrant once you could see it as the sum of all its parts,” Douglas says. That coupled with an effort already well underway at Arts Whistler at the time to serve as the connective tissue between the resort’s various arts organizations and venues, exemplified through the municipality’s Cultural Connector, a scenic pathway that counts six cultural institutions along its route: Maury Young, the library, Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre, Whistler Museum, Lost Lake PassivHaus and the Audain Art Museum, with notable waypoints and information on the resort’s cultural evolution featured throughout. Sometimes, though, it’s not just the tourists who need convincing. Sometimes it’s the artists themselves who need to be reminded they have something valuable to share with the world, and that’s where Arts Whistler can and has played a crucial role, arguably even more so in the pandemic, when performers saw their live gigs dry up and wither in an instant. Take the Hear and Now Festival, usually a slate of in-person local bands, that was transformed to a series of slick video performances recorded onstage at Maury Young; or the related Creative Catalyst project, which invited a handful of Sea to Sky musicians to sharpen their skills on the creative, production and promotional fronts.

“I think we’re on that same trajectory to continue to raise awareness of Whistler’s authentic, locally based cultural scene. We would really like over the next, say, five years, to have a higher awareness among people coming to the resort, that they’re seeking out these experiences as opposed to just stumbling upon them,” Douglas says. “The locals have that experience all the time, but the visitors take that away and it becomes a unique differentiator for us as well.”

“When you look at the musicians seeing themselves back through the Hear and Now video project or what we did with the Creative Catalyst, I think there were huge learnings with musicians,” Douglas says. “It’s about being able to both provide opportunities to let them shine but also opportunities where they can see themselves and see their own opportunities to grow. It’s huge.”

“The reason we were doing that cultural tourism strategy was for exactly that reason: to confirm to the community and the decision-makers that culture is important to selling the resort,” she adds. “That’s why we actually had to pay to commission a report to say what we already knew. It’s only when it’s official that everybody believes it’s true. That’s just the nature of the way people do business.”

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Uphill battle To say that Whistler has come leaps and bounds in its recognition of the arts would be an understatement. “The difference between 2002 and 2022 is huge in terms of the amount of acceptance of the arts community that Whistler has,” Niedermayer muses. Today, arts and culture are simply another spoke in the tourism wheel, and marketed as such, whether through Tourism Whistler, the RMOW or Arts Whistler. But as any local artist or performer can tell you, the fight for recognition in an unapologetic sports town remains an uphill battle. “I would love to see it be a bigger component,” Richoz says of the arts here. “For some people, it’s not so important in their lives. Not everyone is as passionate about the value of arts and culture as we are. For years and years, I thought, ‘We’ve got to have a day without art and I bet people would be really surprised that they able to do anything.’

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“It’s so fun to have names pop up that we’ve never heard of before but they’re doing great stuff. I think it speaks to the transience,” Douglas says. “We are now in a better position, because there’s a stronger appreciation and awareness of what Arts Whistler does, to grab those transient people who might only be here for a season and do want art to be part of their life while they’reRemarkably,here.”

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For Goguen, mountain biking has always played second fiddle to his main passion of skiing. But over the years, particularly this year, as he has seen his biking get more consistent and his results continue to get higher and higher, Goguen’s passion for mountain biking is starting to get stronger.“Justin the past two, three years, I’m definitely starting to get more into [mountain biking] and trying to hit more races, and so with that comes more research and putting more effort into the sport,” he said. “As results are showing I guess I’m doing OK in both sports, so I’d definitely like to try to keep that up for as long as Withpossible.”thatinmind, Goguen isn’t ready to fully choose either sport yet.

THE AWARD IS PRESENTED TO A DESERVING YOUNG RIDER WHO COMPETES IN ALL OF CRANKWORX WHISTLER’S DOWNHILL RACES

Whistler’s Marcus Goguen wins Stevie Smith Memorial Award

The award—created in honour of Canada’s only World Cup Downhill overall winner who tragically died from injuries sustained in a mountain bike crash in Nanaimo in 2016—capped off an extremely long and tiring, but successful, week for Goguen, who finished first in Air DH, third in the Canadian Open downhill and fifth in his first-ever pro Enduro World Series (EWS) race, while competing in the junior categories.

“And then Canadian Open was probably one of the more serious ones for me, since downhill is my biggest discipline. And I came down in third with a pretty solid run. It was pretty cool to be up on the podium with Tegan (Cruz) and Jackson (Goldstone) as they’ve both been crushing it on the World Cup circuit.”

DOWNHILL DOMINANCE Whistler’s Marcus Goguen, shown here during the Air DH event at Crankworx Whistler, won the Stevie Smith Memorial Award after competing in both of Crankworx’s downhill events.

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“My first-ever real EWS pro race was pretty cool. I got to ride the new 1199 Stevie Smith track, which was amazing, and pretty cool to be the first to do that. And then probably the Sunday, [with] the full EWS, was probably one of the longest days I’ve had on my bike in a long time,” Goguen said about his week at Crankworx.

“I am more into skiing than biking, but I think I have fun in both and it’s definitely good to have the competitive spirit in both winter and summer,” he said. “So it’s definitely a good thing that I want to keep doing.”

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BY HARRISON BROOKS RIDING HOME to his dad’s place in Whistler Cay with a bronze medal around his neck after his third-place finish in the U19 category of the Canadian Open DH race on Sunday, Aug. 14, Whistler’s Marcus Goguen thought Crankworx Whistler 2022 was all but wrappedThenup.his phone started to blow up with texts and calls. On the other end of the line, when Goguen answered, was his good friend and fellow downhill racer Tegan Cruz, telling him to hurry back to the finish corral as the announcers were once again calling his name up to the stage. After sprinting back to the base of Whistler Mountain, Goguen found out he was the 2022 winner of the Stevie Smith Memorial Award, given to a young rider who competes in all three downhill races— Air DH, Canadian Open and Garbanzo DH—at Crankworx Whistler (though just two races this year, with no Garbanzo DH race taking place). “Stevie was definitely someone I idolized. I think pretty much any downhiller in Canada idolized Stevie,” said Goguen. “So getting an award like that is pretty amazing. Especially now that I’m more into downhill, I really am starting to grasp how much of an honour that award is and how much of a legacy Stevie really [left]. So it’s really cool to get this award.”

With the money won through the Stevie Smith award, Goguen hopped on a flight to France where he will compete in the UCI World Championships in Les Gets this week, before returning home and shifting focus to training for ski season.

“Stevie was definitely someone I idolized. I think pretty much any downhiller in Canada idolized Stevie. So getting an award like that is pretty amazing.” GOGUEN

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TIME TO PLAY Melanie Levenberg’s company PL3Y International looks to get kids moving and active through dance.

While there was a time in her life where teaching dance to kids wouldn’t have even been considered a possibility for Levenberg, when she looks back now, she can’t imagine her life going any other way than the path she’s currently on.

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In the nine years since Levenberg founded PL3Y, she has been able to share her programs with more than 10,000 instructors across 13 countries, reaching upwards of 3.5 million kids in the process. But despite the massive success her program has enjoyed, travelling the world teaching dance-based programs in schools wasn’t always something Levenberg envisioned herself doing. In fact, it wasn’t even on the radar. For most of her life, Levenberg saw herself as an athlete, and her fitness came from playing multiple sports at a high level. But after a skull fracture suffered while playing lacrosse took away her ability to play contact sports, Levenberg had to find a new way stay active and get the same physical exertion she was used to getting as anThatathlete.ledher down the path to becoming a fitness instructor on top of her career as an elementary school phys-ed teacher.

MELANIE LEVENBERG WON THE CANFITPRO AWARD THANKS TO THE WORK SHE’S DOING WITH HER COMPANY PL3Y INTERNATIONAL BY HARRISON BROOKS BE POSITIVE. Be fun. Be yourself. Those are the three rules Melanie Levenberg tries to instil in the kids she works with through her company PL3Y International, which aims to foster community, positive mindsets and vibrant health through its mostly dance-based physical literacy programs.

“I aspire for [my students] to have a movement experience, and in that, have so much fun that they remember their true essence and they feel what it feels like to be alive, to be present and be with other people,” said Levenberg, who was recently named canfitpro’s Fitness Professional of the Year for 2022. “It’s really about using movement as a source of helping human beings to connect to who they really are.”

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“I think everything happens for a reason. And I don’t know that I would have ever had as much fun as I’m having now, being active as an adult,” she said. “I was so focused on being an athlete, but as you get older, there’s less and less opportunities for you to operate at an elite level, and I don’t know that I would have found as much joy in living actively. Now that I do fitness, there’s just so many different ways that I’ve discovered I can move my body and get that physical exertion and I’m way more open to trying different things because I’ve been exposed to a completely different world than just athletics.” More information on PL3Y International’s youth and adult programs can be found at pl3yinc.com. n

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With teaching as her main job and fitness instructing as a weekend “side hustle,” it wasn’t until it came time to teach her students how to dance that Levenberg’s two passions “[Teaching]collided.dance terrified me,” she said. “I always loved dancing to music, but the thought of going to a class where there’s a choreographer, and remembering steps and everyone going left, going right [was scary]… As an athlete, I had my own art, but I didn’t think that I could dance, and I didn’t feel comfortable in dance classes. “So I figured out a different way of teaching dance, which makes it really simple. I looked at my job as a teacher and I was like, ‘My job is not to get them to remember steps or to be perfect in their technique. They’re just supposed to love movement.’ And so I think using music and movement together is really powerful. So I just took away all the rules of dance.” The students no longer had to remember steps or choreography; they just had to focus on the joy of moving to the music. And from that, according to Levenberg, the kids started to become more curious and excited about moving and being active. And it was the same for Levenberg herself. She was having so much fun teaching dance to her students in her own way that she started sharing her program with other teachers. And before long, her fitness instructor side hustle became her full-time job in the form of PL3Y International, leading to Levenberg being named canfitpro’s Fitness Professional of the Year for 2022.

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IT STRUCK ME this morning that any random cluster of three-in-a-row subject lines in your email inbox, or tweets in your Twitter feed, can make a cool, conceptual framework to jumpstart some creative fun. An art project, say, whether you’re a Whistler Secondary student gearing up for a virtual art show, or a creative soul with your eye on Arts Whistler’s popular Teeny Tiny Show— where size does matter. Or maybe you’re part of Whistler’s writers group looking for a structural device as random as patterns in a sandbank to hang a piece of fiction on. Either way, or both, here’s the three-ina-row I stumbled on while snooping around for some inspiration for whatever I was going to write about this week—a week in the midst of the last lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer when all a girl, or boy, wants to do is have “Opinionfun.Today: What happened to fun?”; “Just one more summer fling?”; and “Can you I.D. plovers on sight?” Honestly! Those three consecutive subject lines in my inbox kicked off this column, compliments of The New York Times; Ten Thousand Villages (a great place to shop, if you must shop, as it supports craftspeople around the world); and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, which has the best website for identifying birds. And, yes, all three were posed as rhetorical questions. How perfect is that? But what really got me going was that all three, especially that New York Times piece, were urging me to get the hell out of my hellishly hot office and back outside to soak up more summer fun before youknow-what hits.

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STOP BEING SO SERIOUS IN THE KITCHEN—GET OUT IN THE SUMMER SUN!

CANNONBALL! Let’s all stop over-achieving in nature, and in the kitchen, especially in the middle of the dog days of summer in Whistler.

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“In a culture that is obsessed with work, in which even the act of rest had somehow become a thing to optimize or make productive, we need fun,” writes the Times’ opinion contributing editor, Jessica Bennett. She goes on to describe how virtually every aspect of contemporary life—even supposedly relaxing or socializing—has been smothered in a blanket of achieving, hustling, making and over-achieving.Nobodyseems to be able to just hang out or veg anymore. We’re always busy “doing” not “being”—and the pandemic only made it worse as everybody wrestles to keep the black dogs of depression at bay with endless elaborate recipes and way too many, toohappy Zoom “quarantini” sessions.

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It’s something Whistler naturalist Kristina Swerhun and I talked about in this column space way back in March 2020, when the pandemic was just hitting home. “Whistlerites are out in nature all the time, but so much of the time, they’re not paying attention to it, and that’s very different. They’ve got their earbuds in, and they’re running or just screaming down the trail…” she Sosaid.let’s all stop over-achieving in nature, and in the kitchen, especially in the middle of the dog days of summer. No handmade soba noodles or duck pâté en croûte in this house. As for that last item, its reputation as one of the hardest things to make earned it top spot on a saveur.com list of challenging recipes, which also came out near the start of the pandemic. To counter, here’s my list of the easiest fun meals to make, anytime: Open-face peanut butter and banana sandwiches garnished with little dollops of your favourite jams (mix them up!). Delicious ripe melon chunks with plain yogurt and/ or vanilla ice cream. And in the No. 1 spot—porridge! More specifically, this gorgeous Jamaican porridge that I heard chef Adrian Forte describe on CBC radio’s TheItCurrent.takesonly two minutes to prep! Easy to make and fragrantly delicious anytime, hot or cold. But have even more fun with it. Try listening to the segment then whipping it up from memory, like I did. Now that was cool! Adrian is so encouraging about using substitutes and being flexible, he’ll fill you with confidence (like I used very little condensed milk). But, just in case, here’s the recipe. As for that Teeny Tiny Show, where every piece of wonderous artwork for sale is 3” x 3”, you’d better get crackin’. It’s coming up fast, Sept. 1 through Oct. 29 at the Maury Young Arts Centre in beautiful Whistler Village. And if you’re curious, there are some rare, beautiful Pacific golden-plovers around right now, way south in Boundary Bay. Now let’s get ourselves outside!

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In a medium saucepan, combine the cornmeal, coconut milk, pineapple juice, salt, allspice, nutmeg and cinnamon stick. Heat on medium, stirring with a whisk to avoid clumping. Cook until it thickens to a porridge-like consistency, about 10 minutes. Add the condensed milk and vanilla, cook for 30 seconds more, then remove from heat. Serve with fresh pineapple chunks and a sprinkle of ground cinnamon.

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Vancouver pianist helps raise funds for Eritrean refugee family

The Whistler Community Church is hosting the benefit concert in an effort to bring a refugee family from Eritrea to the Theresort.father of that family has been separated from his wife and children (local sponsors asked the reason be kept private due to safety) and they’ve been living in two separate refugee camps for several years. A similar group in Pemberton sponsored the wife’s sister, along with her family, a few years“We’reago. waiting to find out when they’re coming,” says Karen Demoe, who is part of the refugee sponsorship committee. “So far everything is going, but it’s going at a slow pace. We didn’t imagine it being this slow.” In the meantime, the group is working to have everything in place to welcome the family to town.

“The classical music industry, in some ways, especially in North America, isn’t growing at the pace I wish it was,” he says. “It’s doing the opposite in some areas. I was trying to think of a way in which I could inspire and create a new idea to bring people into our industry.”

“We want to support them and raise as much as we can,” says Denoni, whose father-in-law is a pastor at the church. “We do still need a lot more to make sure they’re comfortable.”

The concert will be by donation. To that end, Denoni—who has a Master of Music degree in piano performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music and has performed across B.C. and beyond, on top of teaching piano—is planning to pull from an accessible and diverse repertoire to appeal to as many people as possible—whether they’re classical music fans or not. It will range from the familiar “Moonlight Sonata” by Beethoven to the technically impressive “La campanella,” by Franz Liszt, and the more obscure with a sonata by Leo Ornstein. “They’re very exciting pieces that are really good crowd pleasers; technically showy and beautiful and famous melodies,” Denoni adds. “I’m trying to provide a wellrounded experience to people.”

The concert takes place Saturday, Aug. 27 at 3 p.m. at 7226 Fitzsimmons Road North. The suggested donation is $20 with all proceeds going to the Eritrean Refugee Fund. For more on Denoni, visit clintondenoni. com. n

CLASSIC ACT Vancouver concert pianist Clinton Giovanni Denoni is set to perform a benefit concert for an Eritrean refugee family, hosted by the Whistler Community Church, on Saturday, Aug. 27. “We want to support them and raise as much as we can. We do still need a lot more to make sure they’re comfortable.”

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The result is a dreamy video shot in Cox Bay, Tofino that intersperses images of Denoni methodically wading into the ocean and sitting in a concert hall playing Chopin’s “Ocean Étude (Opus 25 No. 12).” It was released at the end of May and has since garnered more than 100,000 views on WhileYouTube.thevideo is stunning, it turns out the shoot itself was a little gruelling. “It got a little scary at times,” says Denoni, who is both a surfer and a strong swimmer. “The tide and undertow was pulling me back out in the ocean. I was fighting coming back—I also had all my clothes on. I had moments when I couldn’t touch the bottom and I was being pulled back out. We shot it in winter, so by the time I got out, I was almost hypothermic. We were trying to get the perfect shot.” The result, however, “was totally worthAnd,it.”in fact, he’s now planning a series of outside-the-box videos. But first, Denoni will head to Whistler for his first show since the pandemic, during which the audience will get to see that video incorporated into his performance.

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BY ALYSSA NOEL CLINTON GIOVANNI Denoni wants classical music to appeal to more young people.

CLINTON GIOVANNI DENONI SET TO PERFORM WIDE-RANGING REPERTOIRE IN WHISTLER ON SATURDAY, AUG. 27

The Vancouver-based concert pianist came up with a concept. He had plenty of videos recorded of his performances, but what if he made a music video? He and his wife, Erica, also a pianist, started to brainstorm.

“There’s some really great talent and creative people [in Whistler],” Ladner says. “The Point is a great place to come celebrate that. I’m so grateful I get to do this.”

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CHANGE OF TUNE Brendan Ladner will perform his new collection of songs written during the pandemic at The Point on Sunday, Aug. 28.

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While he left town shortly after that, when the pandemic started, Ladner found he and his family drawn to Whistler once again. So, they took a leap and made the move back up the highway.

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THE PERSONAL might be political, as the old slogan goes, but for Brendan Ladner, the political is also creative. The Whistler council hopeful tackles the same topics—climate change, inequality, and community—in both his campaign platform and his songs.

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locals might remember Ladner, who lived in the resort from 2005 until 2010, and played in both a band called The Release and as part of reggae artist Kostaman’s band. “We toured across Canada in the fall of 2009,” Ladner remembers. “Four of us left town both as The Release and Kostman’s … Dub Squad. I played the bass in that band. We’d switch over [every night]. We played 100 shows going to St. John’s, Newfoundland and back.”

“Watching how we as a society squandered the opportunity for cataclysmic positive change [as COVID wore on] and reverted back to our more traditional capitalistic goals of society of hoarding wealth and selfishness—I write about that,” Ladner says. “This is all hard for me to digest, so songwriting is a way to express my feelings about it.” So is running for council, it turns out. Despite a hectic schedule with two young kids and plenty of time dedicated to music, Ladner has decided to throw his hat in the ring for this fall’s municipal election. “I’m too passionate of a person,” he says. “I can’t contain myself … Yes, we have some individual responsibilities, but the idea that the individual, if we all just stop eating meat or take fewer flights or get gas out of our homes, none of that is going to tip the needle. It’s going to require collective action. Leaders need to take a stand. We need actual Longtimeleadership.”Whistler

“I always thought it would be an awesome place to live with kids,” he adds. Aside from sparking the move, the pandemic also served to give Ladner the time and space to work on original music. It wasn’t long before he amassed 20 new tracks to add to his catalogue. He also took a new approach to those songs, relying on a loop pedal to layer bass, drums, and harmonies so he can sing and play guitar over them.

“This new collection of songs that I wrote during COVID [is] much more complicated than the stuff I wrote before in terms of how the songs were constructed,” Ladner says. He had the chance to show off those tracks—which he says are a mix between the familiar rock ‘n’ roll of The Rolling Stones and the improvisational counterculture vibe of the Grateful Dead—on the Village Stroll for an Arts Whistler gig this summer. Next up, he’ll hit the stage at The Point Artist-Run Centre’s Sunday Concert Series on Sunday, Aug. 28 (with none other than Kostaman) from 3 to 6 p.m.

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HERE IN THE WEEKLY Museum Musings column, we mostly explore and share stories of the past. Rarely, however, do we go back thousands or millions of years as is required when talking about the geological history of our region. In celebration of the Sea to Sky Fire and Ice Aspiring Geopark, the Museum is showcasing the landscape in the new exhibition Shaping the Landscape with Fire & ThroughoutIce. time, fire and ice have played an important part in shaping the land. Whistler sits in the subduction zone of converging tectonic plates, where the Juan De Fuca plate is being pushed under the North American plate, creating the Coast Mountains. All of the volcanoes considered active in Canada are found in B.C. and the Yukon along tectonic plate boundaries, and all are part of the Pacific Ring of Fire. Garibaldi Provincial Park derives its name from Mount Garibaldi (which is itself named after an Italian soldier, Giuseppe Garibaldi), the largest mountain in the park and a potentially active stratovolcano. While the last eruption was about 13,000 years ago, this is still relatively recent in geological time (Black Tusk, on the other hand, likely erupted approximately 170,000 years ago). Volcanoes can erupt again after being dormant for thousands of years. Thankfully, if Mount Garibaldi was to rumble back to life, we would start seeing warnings such as hot springs, hot spots and seismic activity in the region from rising magma. While Mount Baker is instantly recognizable as a volcano, Mount Garibaldi is harder to distinguish, because it is not a typical cone-shaped volcano. When Mount Garibaldi erupted during the last ice age, one half of the volcanic cone formed on a rock foundation, while the west side settled on top of a glacier. As the glacier melted and receded, the mountain collapsed, changing shape. Giant landslides spread the volcanic debris across the Squamish Valley. We can thank this active volcanic region for the formation of Garibaldi Lake. Also around the end of the last glaciation, Clinker Peak on the shoulder of Mount Price erupted. The Cheakamus Valley had been full of ice more than 1.3 kilometres above sea level that was rapidly melting. Lava from the Clinker Peak eruption flowed towards the valley below where it hit the Cheakamus Valley glacier. There it cooled rapidly against the wall of ice, solidifying to create a dam across the mountain valley. As snow and ice melted from the mountains above, it became trapped behind this wall, known as The Barrier, creating Garibaldi Lake. The only water that leaves Garibaldi Lake year round gushes from springs coming through the scree slope below The Barrier. This consistent flow of water lubricates the bottom of the naturally unstable dam and poses a significant geological hazard, with some scientists worried it could one day collapse. It is not uncommon to see rocks fall from The Barrier, hence the name of Rubble Creek below, and according to Indigenous oral histories, a major landslide occurred in 1855 when a slab of rock fell from The Barrier. With approximately 1.28 trillion litres of water trapped by an unstable dam wall at 1,400 metres of elevation, a collapse could be catastrophic. It is for this reason that an evacuation order of Garibaldi Townsite was issued in 1980, with the last residents leaving the town in 1986. Today, the Garibaldi Townsite no longer exists. Shaping the Landscape with Fire & Ice is on now at the Whistler Museum, open from 11 a.m. every day except Wednesday. Entry is by donation, and you can further support the Whistler Museum by becoming a Museum Member. ■

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SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME Hikers looking at The Barrier around the 1960s or 1970s. COLLECTION

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PHOTO BY SUSAN HUTCHINSON. 3 SLOW JAMS The Pemberton Project entertains the crowd at Cold Creek Acres farm on Sunday afternoon, Aug. 21. PHOTO BY GEORGIA BUTLER. 4 HAPPY CAMPERS Multicultural Summer Camp participants made Chinese dumplings, called “Jiaozi” together on China day during the Whistler Multicultural Society’s Summer Camp week, held from Aug. 15-19. PHOTO SUBMITTED. 5 NIGHT BRIGHT Tuesday night, Aug. 24’s bike rave was a vibe. PHOTO BY CARLOS SANZ AGUILERA.

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PARTIAL RECALL

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian poet Danusha Laméris discovered that earthworms have tastebuds all over their bodies. Now she loves to imagine she’s giving them gifts when she drops bits of apples, beets, avocados, melons, and carrot tops into the compost bin. “I’d always thought theirs a menial life, eyeless and hidden, almost vulgar.” But now that she understands “they bear a pleasure so sublime,” she wants to help the worms fulfil their destinies. I mention this, Cancerian, because I suspect you may have comparable turnarounds in the coming weeks. Long-held ideas may need adjustments. Incomplete understandings will be filled in when you learn the rest of the story. You will receive a stream of interesting new information that changes your mind, mostly in enjoyable ways.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You should never allow yourself to be tamed by others. That advice is always apropos for you Leos, and even more crucial to heed in the coming weeks. You need to cultivate maximum access to the raw, primal sources of your life energy. Your ability to thrive depends on how well you identify and express the beautiful animal within you. Here’s my only caveat: If you imagine there may be value in being tamed a little, in harnessing your brilliant beast, do the taming yourself. And assign that task to the part of you that possesses the wildest wisdom.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming weeks, I urge you to flee from stale and rigid certainty. Rebel against dogmatic attitudes and arrogant opinions. Be skeptical of unequivocal answers to nuanced questions. Instead, dear Aries, give your amused reverence to all that’s mysterious and enigmatic. Bask in the glimmer of intriguing paradoxes. Draw inspiration and healing from the fertile unknown. For inspiration, write out this Mary Oliver poem and carry it with you: “Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company with those who say ‘Look!’ and laugh in astonishment, and bow their heads.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The witch Lisa Chamberlain writes about the magical properties of colours. About brown, she says it “represents endurance, solidity, grounding, and strength.” She adds that it’s used in magic to enhance “balance, concentration, material gain, home, and companion animals.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, the upcoming weeks should be a deeply brown time for you Geminis. To move your imagination in a righteous direction, have fun wearing clothes in shades of brown. Grace your environment with things that have the hues of chestnut, umber, mahogany, sepia, and burnt sienna. Eat and drink caramel, toffee, cinnamon, almonds, coffee, and chocolate.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A blogger named Chaconia writes, “I’ve cultivated a lifetime of being low maintenance and easy-going, and now I’ve decided I’m done with it. Demanding Me is born today.” I’m giving you temporary permission to make a similar declaration, Taurus. The astrological omens suggest that in the coming weeks, you have every right to be a charming, enchanting, and generous version of a demanding person. So I authorize you to be just that. Enjoy yourself as you ask for more of everything.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You know more about how karma works than all the other signs. Scorpio-style intelligence typically has a fine intuitive grasp of how today’s realities evolved out of the deep patterns and rhythms of the past. But that doesn’t mean you perfectly understand how karma works. And in the coming weeks, I urge you to be eager to learn more. Become even savvier about how the law of cause and effect impacts the destinies of you and your allies. Meditate on how the situations you are in now were influenced by actions you took once upon a time. Ruminate on what you could do in the near future to foster good karma and diminish weird karma.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Kabbalistic writer Simon Jacobson says, “Like a flame, the soul always reaches upward. The soul’s fire wants to defy the confines of life. It cannot tolerate the mediocrity and monotony of sheer materialism. Its passion knows no limits as it craves for the beyond.” That sounds both marvelous and hazardous, right? Jacobson concludes, “Whether the soul’s fire will be a constructive or destructive force is dependent on the person’s motivation.” According to my astrological analysis, your deep motivations are likely to be extra noble and generous in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. So I expect that your soul’s fire will be very constructive.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Here’s a good way to build your vibrancy: Use your emotional intelligence to avoid swimming against strong currents for extended periods. Please note that swimming against strong currents is fine, even advisable, for brief phases. Doing so boosts your stamina and fosters your trust in your resilience. But mostly, I recommend you swim in the same direction as the currents or swim where the water is calm and currentless. In the coming weeks, I suspect you can enjoy many freestyle excursions as you head in the same direction as vigorous currents.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the Spanish language, there’s the idiom pensando en la inmortalidad del cangrejo. Its literal translation is “thinking about the immortality of the crab.” It applies to a person engaged in creative daydreaming—her imagination wandering freely in hopes of rousing innovative solutions to practical dilemmas. Other languages have similar idioms. In Finnish, istun ja mietin syntyjä syviä means “wondering about the world’s early origins.” Polish has marzyc o niebieskich migdałach, or “dreaming about blue almonds.” I encourage you to enjoy an abundance of such explorations in the coming days, Capricorn. You need to fantasize more than usual.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): My Aquarian reader Georgie Lee wrote to tell me what it’s like being an Aquarius. I offer it to you because you are potentially at the peak of expressing the qualities she names. She says, “Accept that you don’t really have to understand yourself. Be at peace with how you constantly ramble, swerve, and weave to become more of yourself. Appreciate how each electric shift leads to the next electric shift, always changing who you are forever. Within the churning, ever-yearning current, marvel at how you remain eternal, steady, and solid—yet always evolving, always on a higher ground than before.”

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran blogger Ana-Sofia Cardelle writes, “I look back on past versions of myself with such love and tenderness. I want to embrace myself at different parts of my life.” I hope you’re inspired by her thoughts as you carry out the following actions: 1. Create an altar filled with treasures that symbolize major turning points in your destiny. 2. Forgive yourself for what you imagine to be old errors and ignorance. 3. Summon memories of the persons you were at ages 7, 12, and 17, and write a kind, thoughtful message to each. 4. Literally kiss seven different photos of your face from earlier in your life. 5. Say “thank you” and “bless you” to the self you were when you succeeded at two challenging tests in the past.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Whenever you are contemplating a major decision, I hope you raise questions like these: 1. Which option shows the most self-respect? 2. Which path would be the best way to honour yourself? 3. Which choice is most likely to help you fulfil the purposes you came to Earth to carry out? 4. Which course of action would enable you to express your best gifts? Are there questions you would add, Virgo? I expect the coming months will require you to generate key decisions at a higher rate than usual, so I hope you will make intensive use of my guiding inquiries, as well as any others you formulate.

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Headquartered in Pemberton, the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) delivers a wide range of regional, sub-regional and local services to its residents. The SLRD is a BC Regional District consisting of four member municipalities (Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton, Lillooet) and four electoral areas. Services include land use planning, solid waste management, building inspection, fire protection, emergency preparedness, 911 services, recreation, water and sewer utilities, regional transit, trails and open spaces as well as financial support for various community services.

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The SLRD is seeking an experienced finance professional to fill the new full-time position of Deputy Director of Finance. Reporting to the Director of Finance, the Deputy is responsible for assisting with the direction of the financial affairs of the Regional District (RD) and Regional Hospital District (RHD), working closely with department heads and other Finance department staff to support budget development, procurement processes, regular financial reporting, public engagement and process improvement and implementation.

The ideal candidate will have a minimum of five years of progressive management accounting or finance experience, a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce, Business Administration or related discipline, and a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation. For further information, please refer to the full job description at www.slrd.bc.ca/employment Salary will be determined commensurate with experience. This position also offers a comprehensive benefits package, participation in the Municipal Pension Plan, a compressed work week (nine-day fortnight) and hybrid work from home arrangements.

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Auxiliary positions are not permanent full-time but can lead to permanent full-time opportunities with a very competitive total compensation package, including a comprehensive pension plan, medical and dental coverage (including massage and physiotherapy), tuition reimbursement and scholarship programs, and access to public service employee benefits including career support services, financial and legal services, and employee and family counselling.

The LDB is one of two branches of government responsible for the cannabis and liquor industry of B.C. We operate the wholesale distribution of beverage alcohol within the province, as well as the household retail brand of BC Liquor Stores.

At the Liquor Distribution Branch (LDB) our vision of ‘Service. Relationships.

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We believe that our people are our greatest asset. Being a reputable employer with programs of skills training and professional development are what attract candidates to BC Liquor Stores, while our progressive, forward-thinking culture is why employees with a growth mindset thrive.

• Be able to provide excellent customer service

• Be able to legally work in Canada

We employ nearly 5,000 people in over 200 communities and have been named one of BC’s Top Employers 14 times over for offering exceptional places to work rooted in values of fairness and respect, work-life balance, and inclusion and diversity.

To be eligible, applicants must meet the following qualification requirements:

• A Criminal Record Check is required.

• Be at least 19 years of age

• Be able to perform physically demanding work, including lifting 20-25 kg boxes

• Have a valid Serving It Right Certificate™

Rates of Pay as of April 11, 2021: Auxiliary Sales Associate - $19.45 per hour Seasonal Sales Associate - $18.08 per hour

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Auxiliary positions are on-call, meaning hours of work are not guaranteed and subject to availability. Some auxiliary employees may not initially work a full 35-hour week, but with more hours worked and more seniority gained, more opportunities for more hours of work will follow.

BC Liquor Store Sales Associates may be required to operate a variety of mechanical and hand-operated equipment, in addition to handling large volumes of bottles as part of the LDB’s recycling program.

Results.’ is all about providing a valued service, building strong relationships with our stakeholders, and achieving greater results for the province.

• Be able to demonstrate aptitude for cashier and related duties, including calculations

• Be able to communicate effectively and professionally with the public

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Before I wade into this—and in an effort to relieve Pique’s publisher and editor of the unnecessary burden of defending my position—I’d just like to make a few things clear. If you, dear reader, are a church-going, religious person, if you find comfort and guidance in the teachings of your particular religion, if you feel your life is richer because of your beliefs, if you live life as a better person because of it, more power to you. I applaud you. Whatever floats your boat, or as John Lennon said, whatever gets you through the night, is laudable. Life’s tough, and we all need something

70 AUGUST 25, 2022 “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority...” -Lord Acton IN THE LATE 1980s and early 1990s, I was still serving time in the corporate world in Toronto. When there was snow and ice on the roads, I rode the subway to work and back instead of biking. I carried—and sometimes pretended to read—a hardcover copy of The Satanic Verses I didn’t think much of the book, but I enjoyed glancing at the responses of other passengers to its presence. That’s because shortly after it was published in 1988, Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini channeled the outrage of peaceloving Muslims by issuing a fatwa calling for the book’s author, Salman Rushdie’s, death. A dream sequence based on the life of the Prophet Muhammad and other passages in the book were considered blasphemy to the sacred teachings of Islam. The fatwa was never rescinded. Earlier this month, Rushdie was attacked and repeatedly stabbed by 24-year-old Hadi Matar, a New Jersey man, because he considered Rushdie, “someone who attacked Islam.” While not citing the fatwa directly, he admitted he’d only read a couple of pages of the book. Iran blamed Rushdie for the attack. Go figure.Alsoearlier this month, there was a celebration, if that’s the right word, for the 75th anniversary of India’s partition into Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan. The very real fear, as the British Raj ended its rule of India, was the two religious factions would continue to escalate their bloody fighting, each in the name of their god(s). Whether political or religious, the history of civilization can be traced by the fighting between great men wielding power in the quest for absolute power. And the beat goes Whetheron. it’s persecution of Jewish people, Protestants fighting Catholics, evangelicals murdering abortion providers, or even “peaceful” Buddhist monks in Myanmar supporting the junta and joining the persecution, killing and exile of Rohingya Muslims, virtually every religious institution—okay, maybe not the Quakers—have, and still, proclaim theirs as the one true god and will try to counter those who disagree.

BY MAXWELLG.D. Whether political or religious, the history of civilization can be traced by the fighting between great men wielding power in the quest for absolute power.

to believe in and make us better people. That said, if you interpret your religious tenets to control what I or others believe in, how we live our lives, how and whom we love, what we say, what we write, what we paint and draw and even think, well, that’s not all right. That’s intolerant. And if the things you find unacceptable happen to be both acceptable and legal in our country, that’s especially not all right. That’s both intolerant and discriminatory. In another place and time—and for all we know here and in the future—that’s the kind of intolerance that leads to authors being knifed, people who believe in other gods or none at all being persecuted and murdered, countries fighting endless wars against each other, groups vowing to annihilate other groups. Bad, bad, bad. So I was taken aback recently with news our local Catholic church was planning to cosy up with the Napa Institute, a group that seems to want to use its version of religion as a cudgel to bring non-believers intoAndline. I was further taken aback by rumours of the Whistler Community Church (WCC) refusing to allow the use of their rental facilities to groups and individuals because they might—not will—insufficiently align with their stated values and guidelines. Usually I dance around information like that, because it frequently involves miscommunication or misinterpretation. But I was directed to the written guidelines on WCC’s website, which read groups and persons wishing to rent their property are prohibited from: 4. Use of Church property to promote same-sex sexual relationships, same-sex life partnership or same-sex marriage; 6. Use of Church property to promote or support abortion, abortion rights or abortion related activities. (Find it yourself at againstdisplayandthosegrantedButlandprecludestatutepropertychurchtheirtaxthem,ResortunfortunatelytheirwithopposingnotgroupsspacenothoseIfbrethren,sexinpartnershipswhistlerchurch.ca/rental-enquiries).LasttimeIchecked,same-sexrelationships,andyes,evenmarriage,waslegalCanada.Sowas,is,abortion.IfWCCwantstopreachagainstsame-relationshipsandabortiontotheirIhavenoproblemwiththat.theircongregationpreferstobelievethingsareevilintheirgod’seyes,problem.Ifthey’rewillingtorenttheirspace—havingalwaysbeenscarceintown—towhoalignwiththeirbeliefsanddothesametogroupswhomayholdbeliefs,I’mevenkindofokaythat.ButI’mnotokaywithsupportingimpositionofthosebeliefs.AndI’mdoingthatbecausetheMunicipalityofWhistlergrantsandtheCatholicchurch,apermissiveexemptionforthelandsurroundingchurchbuilding.UndertheCommunityCharter,thebuildingitselfisexemptfromtax.Andwhilethatprovincialmakesnosensetome,itdoesnotthemunicipalityfromtaxingtheappurtenanttothechurchbuilding.in2021,bothorganizationswerefive-yearexemptionsfrompayingtaxes.So,yeah,thetaxpayersofWhistlertheRMOWarecomplicitinthislittleofintoleranceanddiscriminationtotallylegalactivities.Youokaywiththat?

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Tom Lehrer, mathematics professor at both MIT and Harvard and popular satirical songwriter and performer in the 1960s, captured the inter-religion intolerance in a verse in his humourous song, “National Brotherhood Week”: “Oh the Protestants hate the Catholics And the Catholics hate the Protestants And the Hindus hate the Muslims And everybody hates the Jews.” In his 1905 book, Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious, Sigmund Freud postulated—and yes, I simplify here—jokes and humour allow the expression of thoughts society generally prefers to suppress. Interestingly, he also pointed out not everyone is capable of formulating humour. Nor, I suspect, is everyone capable of identifying it. With that groundwork, I’m not certain whether local issues recently brought to my attention are examples of religious humour or intolerance. I suspect the latter. But whichever they are, while I will defend the right of the religious organizations to live their beliefs, I’m not comfortable supporting their humour or intolerance financially.

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