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Province investigating Squamish gas prices

Complaints prompt attention from B.C. Utilities Commission

Gas gripers, it seems like your voices have been heard. The province announced that the B.C. Utilities Commission (BCUC) will be collecting gas price data from Squamish following a deluge of public complaints.…

Whistler business owners join MLA Sturdy and opposition critic for tourism townhall

First Look: Resort entrepreneurs want more economic certainty heading into fall

Whistler’s business sector was well represented in a virtual tourism townhall held last week with a pair of provincial officials. Whistler made up the lion’s share of online attendees at the June 11 event, and shared their concerns and challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic with MLA Jordan Sturdy and the Liberals’ official opposition co-critic for tourism, Michelle Stilwell.…

Movie theatres begin raising curtain on summer season

B.C. indie chain reopens; Cineplex and arthouse venues take wait-and-see approach

Rahim Manji can’t describe this month’s reopening of Hollywood 3 Cinemas PM Ltd. as “economically viable” just yet. “We’re doing it more as a service,” said the owner of the B.C.-based independent theatre chain.…

GoFundMe raises money for Pemberton Cemetery Enhancement Project

Committee scales back goals for summer in light of pandemic

The Pemberton Cemetery Committee is moving forward with plans to enhance the local cemetery, despite new challenges that have arisen due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “April was going to be our big target funding month,” said Krista Walden with the committee.…

Feds to extend CERB beyond 16 weeks

Program was set to end first week of July

Workers relying on the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) to pay their bills will be able to do so at least a little bit longer. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Monday (June 15) the federal government would extend the $2,000 monthly benefit beyond its original 16-week lifespan.…

$164 million of unclaimed cash in B.C., looking for its rightful owners

The B.C. Unclaimed Property Society wants to reunite you with your funds

There is more than $164 million of unclaimed money sitting in B.C. accounts—and some of it could be yours. That’s according to the most recent financial statements released by the non-profit B.C. Unclaimed Property Society (BCUPS).…

One of every 10 residents in B.C.—usually the fittest province—has given up on exercise due to pandemic

COVID-19 has weakened the fitness focus of many Canadians

In late March, when Canadians were still trying to process the notion of a lengthy lockdown, Research Co. and Glacier Media asked a question about physical activity. At the time, 30 per cent of Canadians said they were exercising at home more often than before the COVID-19 pandemic, including 36 per cent of British Columbians.…

Pemberton SAR sees quiet spring

Volunteers prepared for summer with protocols

Pemberton Search and Rescue had a quiet spring, presumably thanks to recreationalists obeying COVID-19 protocols. “We had a small number of calls this spring, but they haven’t amounted to much,” said David MacKenzie, head of Pemberton Search and Rescue (PSAR).…

Curtis Keene Mountain Bike Line in Whistler

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Canadian expert says he is confident COVID-19 vaccine is not years away

Work done on SARS vaccine informing research on COVID-19 vaccine

One of Canada’s preeminent infectious disease experts said he is confident a vaccine for COVID-19 will be ready in months, not years. Dr. Gary Kobinger, director of the Research Centre on Infectious Diseases at Laval University in Quebec, says there are more than 100 possible vaccines in development for COVID-19 around the world.…

LETTER:A rational discussion on grizzly bears and habitat

“The vast majority of local residents are accustomed to assessing and managing risks while in the outdoors”

Since 1978 I have been watchingand awaiting this moment when we as the Sea to Sky community come to face the challenge of living in unison with grizzly bears. For most of that time, people were generally in denial that these magnificent creatures actually inhabited many locales not far off the beaten track.…

Longer lines, higher fares and no booze: Flying is about to get more aggravating

Eliminating middle seat on flights will likely end cheap flights

Temperature checks. Bigger lines.…

Politics as normal suspended in B.C., but will that change when house returns?

Partisan politics on horizon

British Columbia’s Opposition leader said fighting the pandemic produced a unified health front among traditional adversaries, but with the province facing its darkest economic crisis in decades, political battle lines must go beyond working together to flatten the COVID-19 curve. B.C. Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson said just because his party backs the provincial health officer’s pandemic restrictions doesn’t mean the Opposition will co-operate with the NDP when the legislature resumes sitting on June 22.…

Nature lovers, you might not be as alone as you think. What if Nature loves you back?

Allies in unlikely places

For the past 10 weeks, I’d felt a low-level thrum of stress about the winter-mess of my garden. It would spike when I saw other people, in March, as the Prime Minster was giving his briefings in a snowstorm, who were pandemic-proofing their future by getting in loads of soil, going to physically distanced plant sales, posting pics of their seedlings, their brand-new garden beds.…