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Village of Pemberton council discusses local transit sustainability issues

Council briefs: contingency spending; invasive species control

A letter from BC Transit to the Village of Pemberton (VOP) highlighting some serious operational challenges for the community’s local transit service was discussed at the regular council meeting Feb. 25. While outlining the problems, the letter also recommended that the parties involved in transit—the VOP, the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District (SLRD) and the Lil’wat Nation—support a proposal which would see two new Whistler-Transit owned, 24-passenger vehicles put into service, as well as adjusting the current driver labour agreement to address an issue around using non unionized drivers.…

Now you see him…

The Invisible Man is not a superhero (that’s Sue Richards, the Invisible Woman and founding member of the Fantastic Four). Instead, The Invisible Man is a tense horror/thriller/sci-fi reboot of a character pulled from an old H.G. Wells story and the 1933 Universal film it inspired.…

Highway signs featuring shíshálh place names to be up by end of March

The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) says it plans to have she shashishalhem-English dual language road signs installed along Highway 101 by the end of March. The sign project, with an estimated cost of $80,000, was one of the initiatives identified in the 2018 Foundation Agreement between the shíshálh Nation and the province.…

Watch this Uprising slideshow set to music of the mountains

Reuben Krabbe, Duncan Sadava, and Jeff Warren’s submission featured a soundtrack recorded entirely in Whistler

Did you drop the ball on snagging a ticket to Uprising, the sold-out photography event that took place at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler on Saturday night? If so, we hate to tell you that you missed a great celebration of the creativity, culture and all-around stoke that defines our mountain town.…

Ottawa banking on food to grow appetite for Indigenous tourism

Former Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre head says hunting, fishing regulations should be loosened to accommodate authentic culinary experiences

Food has long been the gateway to the unfamiliar, serving as an accessible entry point into cultures different from ours. Ottawa has recognized this with the launch, last fall, of a new culinary tourism strategy that is meant to deepen the understanding of Indigenous cuisine, and through that, Indigenous culture itself.…

Woman chasing dog falls through ice at Alpha Lake

Woman was not injured in incident

A local woman can count her lucky stars after she fell through thin ice on Alpha Lake last week, police said in a release. At around 12:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 16, the Whistler RCMP and the Whistler Fire Rescue Service were called to the dock in Alpha Lake Park after a woman followed her dog onto the ice and fell through.…

Letters to the Editor for the week of February 27

Where are all the lifties? I recently received a feedback survey from Whistler Blackcomb, but wanted to make sure my voice was heard with regard to safety on the chairlifts.…

How to get more people onto transit

What can be more soul-sapping—life-threatening conditions or income tax deadline time aside—than regularly sitting in gridlocked traffic? Vehicles crawling at a pace just slightly faster than a walk, taillights stretching for as far as you can see ahead of you, no route alternatives, no way out.…

Smart claims first NorAm win

Slopestyler tops Calgary podium in season debut

So far in the 2019-20 season, Luke Smart had been focused more on his studies at UBC’s Sauder School of Business than freestyle competition. So when the Whistler slopestyler lined up for his first NorAm Cup event of the season in Calgary on Feb. 22, he wasn’t entirely sure what to expect.…

Weekend fire destroys Black Tusk Community Centre

Fire chief says blaze could have been ‘much, much worse’ in summer conditions

An early-morning fire claimed a community centre on the shores of Pinecrest Lake this weekend—but it could have been much worse, said the Garibaldi Volunteer Fire Department chief. Crews attended the scene of the fire in Black Tusk Village just after 4 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 22 to find the Black Tusk Community Centre “completely engulfed in flames,” said fire chief Dan Ross.…

Resort Municipality of Whistler proposes day lot parking fee increase

Residents have until March 12 to weigh in

A recommendation from the Resort Municipality of Whistler’s (RMOW) Transportation Advisory Group proposes to increase parking rates in Whistler’s day lots. If implemented, the new rates would be $12 per day in lots 1 to 3 (up from $10) and $6 in lots 4 and 5 (up from $5).…

Free will astrology for the week of February 27

ARIES (March 21-April 19):
You may sometimes reach a point where you worry that conditions are not exactly right to pursue your dreams or fulfil your holy quest. Does that describe your current situation?…

Could Whistler and Vancouver host the 2030 Games?

John Furlong, President of 2010 Olympic organizing committee, makes the case for a 2030 bid

As Whistler celebrates the 10th anniversary of the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, the buzz is beginning to build around a possible bid for the 2030 Games. In a speech to the Vancouver Board of Trade on Feb. 20, John Furlong, who co-led the bid for the 2010 Games, made the case for 2030.…

Dan Vogl isn’t living to work

Fresh from Melbourne, the singer-songwriter has quickly gained attention in the resort

When Dan Vogl moved to Whistler last November, he inadvertently ended up living out his own song lyrics. In his single “Gifted in Gold,” the Melbourne musician laments that we all seem to fall victim to the rat race when we become adults.…