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Metcalf assumes interim GM role

Search for new CAO nears completion

With the retirement of Whistler’s general manager of resort experience Jan Jansen last month, economic development manager Toni Metcalf will be filling the position on an interim basis. “We are so excited about you sitting at that table providing your insight and your very good work,” Crompton said in his mayor’s report at the March 3 council meeting.…

2 new cases of COVID-19 linked to North Vancouver care home

B.C. health officials have announced six new cases of coronavirus in the province, including two connected to a seniors care home in North Vancouver. Chief medical health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry and provincial Health Minister Adrian Dix announced during a press conference Saturday morning that a previously announced case of COVID-19 included a health-care worker at the Lynn Valley Care Centre.…

Western Toad migration study springs into action

Squamish project’s second research season set to begin

As spring is just around the corner, so are the Western toads. And behind them are the volunteers gathering information about their upcoming seasonal migration as part of the Western Toad Migration project.…

Volunteers of 2010: The Weasel Workers

This past week, the Whistler Museum opened a temporary exhibit on the Sea to Sky volunteers of the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The exhibit will run through March as Whistler continues to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Paralympic Games.…

Daycares want streamlining of ECE certification

Inter-provincial certification can be time-consuming and expensive process, say local childcare workers

like other daycare centres in the corridor, the Whistler Children’s Centre would love to hire more certified staff, but it simply can’t find them.…

The woman who discovered global warming—in 1856!

Our book Just Cool It!: The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do features a chapter on climate science history. We include discoveries by well-known scientific pioneers, from Joseph Fourier’s 1824 research into the atmosphere’s ability to trap heat to Mikhail Budyko’s warnings about burning fossil fuels in the early 1960s to Michael Mann’s more recent hockey stick graph.…

Whistler Mountain’s Bennett blasts through first ski-cross season

WMSC racer wins nationals, qualifies for subsequently cancelled junior worlds

One might chalk up Emeline Bennett’s early success in her ski-cross career to beginner’s luck, but the 16-year-old Whistler Mountain Ski Club member is proving it’s much more than that. In her first year of competitive ski-cross, Bennett won the U19 women’s division at the Canadian National Championships in Red Deer, Alta. in January and secured a spot on Canada’s 2020 FIS Junior Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships team, set to compete in Saint-Lary, France later this month.…

Tired of that same old staff meal you’ve eaten a thousand times? Whistler Food Swap can help

Facebook group connects local workers to trade staff meals

It’s the dream of every famished pre-pubescent teen jacked up on Orange Crush and Nintendo: Pizza for lunch. Every.…

Sea to Sky school district cancels international trip, others pending

Extra cleaning staff hired amid COVID-19 concerns

Some international travel has been cancelled for Sea to Sky school district staff, while parents and students wait to find out if other school-based trips will continue planned amid COVID-19 concerns. When students or staff travel internationally, the Sea to Sky school district follows the Government of Canada and Centres for Disease Control and Prevention travel advisories, Supt. Lisa McCullough told The Squamish Chief in an email.…

Third reading for WMSC rezoning deferred

Nearby neighbours write in opposition ahead of public hearing

THIRD READING for a Whistler Mountain Ski Club (WMSC) rezoning to construct a new staff housing building was deferred at the March 3 meeting, following opposition comments from nearby neighbours. While no one spoke against the project at a public hearing on March 3, council received four pieces of correspondence in opposition, citing concerns over slope stability, runoff and groundwater issues, noise and dust mitigation during construction, loss of natural landscaping, impact on viewscapes, parking issues, congestion on Lake Placid Road, and the potential for a well-used walking trail near the property to be cut off.…

SLRD completes housing need study

Key recommendations include exploring community land trust/non-profit housing authority models, supporting moderate density in certain areas and requiring a minimum of 15% of new developments be affordable housing

The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) has completed its first study of housing need and demand in the region. The new report falls under the 2019 provincial requirement for all local governments in B.C. to make housing needs reports by April 2022.…

Registration for the Resort Municipality of Whistler’s spring and summer program starts next week

Whistler’s Spring / Summer 2020 Recreation Guide goes online today

Attention parents: it’s that time of year again. Registration for the Resort Municipality of Whistler’s (RMOW) popular spring and summer programs begins next Saturday, March 14.…

Tim Hortons temporarily stops accepting reusable cups amid COVID-19 concerns

TORONTO — Tim Hortons says it will temporarily stop accepting reusable cups brought in by customers amid concerns about the novel coronavirus outbreak. The company has also put on hold plans it had to give away 1.8 million reusable cups for free as part of its Roll Up the Rim contest this year.…

Go on a nomadic bicycle adventure

Arts news: submissions open for Independent Book Awards; Sea to Sky libraries team up

Two former Whistlerites are sharing their adventures through a multimedia documentary at Whistler Brewing on Sunday, March 8. In 2014, Janick Lemieux and Pierre Bouchard set out to bicycle to the nomadic peoples living between the northernmost point of Europe and Africa’s Southern tip.…

‘We clicked musically right away’

The Jumaralis Trio plays Whistler on March 8

Vancouver-area musicians are a busy bunch. Case-in-point: it took clarinettist Julie Begg and cellist Alison Patterson nearly three years to turn a loose conversation about playing music together into The Jumaralis Trio.…