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2010 leader John Furlong urges Whistler and Vancouver to bid for 2030 Winter Games

International Olympic Committee focus on re-using venues might make bid a winner

While Whistler and Vancouver celebrate the 10th anniversary of the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, the man who co-led the bid and headed the organizing committee wants the city to do it again in 2030. John Furlong told the Vancouver Board of Trade in a speech Thursday, Feb 20, he thinks the city could and should bid for the 2030 Winter Games.…

Whistler skiers top divisions in Vernon

Local masters skiers hope to help keep long-running race going

Jules Lajoie has attended the Over the Hill Downhill in Vernon for the past decade, and at 74, he hopes to attend for several years to come. The Whistler resident topped the men’s 70-to-74 age category in the Master’s Open Downhill at Silverstar on Feb. 9, and finished 29th overall in the Over the Hill Downhill earlier in the day.…

Bears in the spotlight for new exhibit at The Gallery

Bear Everything—Whistler Pawtraits opens on Feb. 26

It’s no secret that Whistler is bear crazy. Need proof?…

‘I feel like it chose me this time’

Local singer-songwriter Marc Charron reflects on returning to the Sea to Sky corridor and making music

In January 2018, Marc Charron needed a break. The solo musician had been playing music full-time for 14 years with up to 250 gigs a year—sometimes working until the early morning hours for days upon days.…

Letters to the Editor for the week of February 20

Sharing trail access can bring new positive relationships Twenty years ago, a group of trail advocates began a campaign of planning and instigating a network of mainly flatland trails in the Pemberton Valley with the funding and planning needs provided by local government and a newly formed PVTA (Pemberton Valley Trails Association).…

Free will astrology for the week of February 20

ARIES (March 21-April 19):
Do you feel ready to change your mind about an idea or belief or theory that has been losing its usefulness? Would you consider changing your relationship with a once-powerful influence that is becoming less crucial to your life-long goals?…

The elephant in the room? Population growth

In the pale predawn light, a time when most of us were trying to wring out the last moments of sleep, with the mountains to the south of me just beginning to take shape, blackened silhouettes against a sky fierce with wind and torn cloud, punctuated by moving lights of late-shift groomers, the muffled sound of a couple of kilos of explosive reverberates down the valley. My windows shake as the percussion plays the house like a giant timpani.…

SLRD searches for new CAO

Lynda Flynn resigns to care for family

The Squamish Lillooet Regional District will soon begin the search for a new Chief Administration Officer. Lynda Flynn, who has held the position since October 2011, resigned in January 2020 in order to move back to the Okanagan Valley, where she is originally from.…

Resort Municipality of Whistler reports back on environmental goals

Council briefs: Bylaw amendment bans scooters, hover boards from pedestrian zones

at Tuesday’s regular meeting of council, elected officials heard about the progress made on Whistler’s environmental goals in the final quarter of 2019, and the focus sat squarely on two sectors that make up the bulk of the resort’s emissions. Part of the regular reporting on Whistler’s ambitious Community Energy and Climate Action Plan (CECAP), municipal climate change coordinator Max Kniewasser first spoke to the work done at the end of the calendar year on the transportation front, the leading contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the resort.…

Resort Municipality of Whistler may reconsider sourcing asphalt from Squamish

Trucking asphalt from Squamish has cost an additional $456K and produced 270 tonnes of co2 since 2011

A decade after it last sourced asphalt from Cheakamus Crossing’s contentious asphalt plant, the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) may reconsider its current arrangement, which sees the product trucked in from Squamish. Presenting to elected officials at Tuesday’s Committee of the Whole meeting, municipal GM of infrastructure services James Hallisey said that several factors have changed since the RMOW adopted a policy requiring all asphalt be sourced a minimum distance of three kilometres from any Whistler neighbourhood.…

Our Games, our legacies

I was thinking about the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games the other day as I drove from Vancouver to Whistler. It’s a drive many of us take for granted these days (or complain about as we experience bumper-to-bumper traffic) as we make our way up and down the corridor.…

Developer returns with revised housing proposal for Alta Lake

New application trims tourist accomodation, market housing; adds employee units

the developer of a housing project proposed for 5298 Alta Lake Road has come back to the table with a revised application reducing the number of market and tourism accommodation units in favour of more employee housing. The project floated by Empire Club Development Corp. had originally proposed 15 employee-restricted units (eight of which were intended to be maintained by the proponent) and 22 market tourist-accommodation units, which would be zoned for short-term rental, if owners choose to do so.…

Higher costs should kill Trans Mountain pipeline, opposition says

OTTAWA — Opposition parties and environmental groups are urging the federal government to stop expanding the Trans Mountain pipeline, citing a poll saying Canadians are alarmed by the project’s cost. Bloc Québécois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet, NDP environment critic Laurel Collins, as well as the Greens’ parliamentary leader Elizabeth May, cited a poll on the rising price of the project in a news conference in Ottawa Wednesday.…

Vail Resorts has not failed Whistler Blackcomb

LETTER: For the week of Feb. 13

I disagree with Ben Cherniavsky’s petition about making Whistler Blackcomb great again (Pique, “Whistler COO says Vail Resorts is listening to criticism,” Feb. 6). The title is too much like Make America Great Again, which disingenuously ignores advances made while nostalgically yearning for a past that wasn’t real.…

You can get fined a whopping $109 for driving with a dog on your lap

While Fido’s favourite spot might be your lap, you should ensure that he rides shotgun when you’re on the road. On Feb. 18, BC RMCP Traffic tweeted that a, “driver’s control/view while driving mustn’t be obstructed by pets/people while driving.”…