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Animal Nation bookends music career with Our Time in America

Garnet Clare’s forthcoming album tackles ups and downs of last half-decade

Need a break from the unending weight of the global pandemic and resulting economic turmoil? “Peach Blunt Sunday,” the first single from Animal Nation’s swan song album just might do the trick.…

B.C.’s health officials hope for the best, plan for the worst in COVID-19 models

Lions Gate Hospital one of 17 across B.C. designated as a primary COVID-19 site

Health officials who have been scrambling to put plans in place for a larger-scale COVID-19 outbreak in B.C. say the province’s health-care system has the ability to manage – but only if British Columbians continue to take steps to slow the epidemic. Seventeen of the province’s largest hospitals – including Lions Gate Hospital on the North Shore – have been designated as primary COVID-19 sites, which would be the first tasked with taking care of coronavirus patients in the event that the number of cases surges.…

People with COVID-19 symptoms will not be allowed on domestic flights, trains: Trudeau

New Transport Canada rules to kick in noon Monday

Anyone showing symptoms of COVID-19 will not be allowed to board domestic flights or intercity passenger trains, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Saturday, to help reduce spread of the virus within Canada. The new measure will kick in Monday at noon, and will be implemented by Transport Canada.…

The power of perseverance

We’re at the forefront of bringing diversity to winter sports. Finally.

“There’s a quote I really love by Maya Angelou, ‘If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude about it.’…

Developer pitches West Vancouver gondola

Tram line would connect new development to Dundarave Village

A developer planning to build hundreds of strata and rental units above Highway 1 in West Vancouver is pitching a public gondola to Dundarave as part of the project. Henson Development is proposing 146 rental and 439 strata units in a series of two-to-12-storey buildings on 8.9 acres just east of Collingwood School’s Wentworth Campus.…

Healthy forests mean healthy people

If you look at a forest top from above or below, you might see a pattern of nicely spaced pathways twisting between the trees. This phenomenon is known as “crown shyness.” …

This local charity is providing meals to frontline medical workers

Meal delivery is one ‘small thing’ we can do, says Whistler Health Care Foundation chair

The Whistler Healthcare Foundation is helping frontline medical workers respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by delivering meals to the Whistler Health Care Centre. The deliveries are a “small thing we can do right now to support them,” said foundation chair Sandra Cameron.…

Whistler Blackcomb has donated hundreds of pounds of food to Whistler, Squamish and Pemberton food banks

Part of the 23 tonnes of food Vail Resorts has donated to food banks and soup kitchens in mountain towns across North America

One of the first things that went through Whistler Blackcomb (WB) executive chef Wolfgang Sterr’s mind after Vail Resorts announced it would be shutting down the resort for at least a week (before later suspending operations for the season) was: What the heck to do with all this perishable food? As it turned out, WB wound up donating nearly six metric tonnes of much-needed goods to food banks in Whistler (771 kilograms), Pemberton (363 kg), Squamish (454 kg), and Surrey (4,309 kg).…

B.C. making $3 million fund available for arts groups affected by COVID-19

Eligible arts organizations will receive up to $15,000 to help pay their bills during the COVID-19 pandemic. The government is setting up a $3 million fund to be administered by the BC Arts Council.…

Renzoni reflects on Junior Worlds

WMSC grad learned plenty in Norway

Though the 2020 FIS Junior World Ski Championships at Narvik, Norway were cut short, Whistler Mountain Ski Club grad Ella Renzoni got in every race she went for. The 19-year-old competed in four events, taking 30th in the downhill on March 7 and 44th in the giant slalom on March 11 while suffering DNFs in the super-G and Alpine combined.…

The arts, humanity and the start of Quarantino

There is a Winston Churchill quote going around the internet about how the arts are what makes fighting a war worth it. It’s an uplifting bit of phraseology, but unfortunately, Churchill never actually said it, at least not in his 15 million published words of speeches, letters, papers, articles or books.…

Life in COVIDian times

What to do when you have to keep calm and not quite carry on

Ironically, the term “quarantine” came to us from our dear, now-beleaguered friends in Italy. The Italian quarantina, meaning “40 days,” is from the Italian quaranta for the number 40, and refers to the biblical narrative of the temptation of Christ—the 40 days when Jesus fasted in the wilderness and was tempted by the devil.…

‘Slight chance of optimism’ that COVID-19 growth rate slowing

Provincial health officials unveil hospital mobilization plan

Modelling conducted by provincial health officials based on best and worst-case scenarios (South Korea and Northern Italy, respectively) in the spread of COVID-19 virus suggests B.C. is tracking closer to the South Korea. But all it would take is for one church group that flouted prohibitions on large gatherings, one plane returning from abroad with an infected person or one remote work camp with an infection outbreak to have seed the virus somewhere, where it could explode.…

B.C.’s new rental support measures leave landlords in lurch

‘This is wide open to potential abuse,’ says landlord group, as tenant advocate publicly wonders if it makes sense to pay rent

A B.C. emergency-response rental package that could balloon above $1 billion over the next 90 days will leave landlords exposed to huge losses, according to agents and LandlordBC. Tenant advocates are openly wondering if it even makes sense to pay rent.…

UBC researchers get another $2.3 million for COVID-19 research

University received $2.8 million in federal funding earlier this month

Five research teams from the University of B.C. are getting $2.3 million in federal funds to help tackle the COVID-19 outbreak. The teams will focus on developing and implementing measures to rapidly detect, neutralize, manage and reduce the transmission of the novel coronavirus.…