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Canada #2 country in the world in global survey

The Best Countries report was created from a survey of 20,000 people from 36 countries around the world

Canada was ranked the second best country in the world in a recent global survey. Compiled by U.S. News & World Report, the Best Countries report was created from a survey of 20,000 people from 36 countries around the world.…

B.C. public corporate registry would be ‘game changer,’ says anti-money laundering coalition

But unchecked corporate trusts remain ‘a vehicle’ for dirty money in B.C., says NGO lobbyist Sasha Caldera for Publish What You Pay Canada

The B.C. government announced Friday it will be seeking advice from the business community and public at large on the creation of a public registry of corporate beneficial ownership in the province. Finance Minister Carole James already enacted legislation last May requiring companies to state their beneficial owners in their corporate records, which are only held privately and only accessible by government authorities and relevant regulators.…

Vancouver’s Greenpeace, Sea Shepherd join neo-nazis, anarchists on U.K. terror list

Senior officer says list is to help identify groups, not target them as extremist

The Vancouver-created international environmental organizations Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd Conservation Society have been listed by U.K. counterterrorism policing officials alongside neo-Nazis, white supremacists, anarchists and animal rights groups. The U.K.’s Guardian newspaper reported the Counter Terrorism Policing group produced a guide for distribution to hospitals and schools across England as part of anti-extremism training for an anti-radicalization scheme.…

Celebrating Garibaldi Park’s 100th with 100 peak summits

Two Sea to Sky men exploring what’s in our backyard

Not long after they rang in the New Year, two Squamish locals stood atop one of Garibaldi Provincial Park’s many peaks, the first summit of their objective complete. They soon scratched another one off their list.…

B.C. and Alberta Indigenous leaders demonstrate against major oilsands project

VANCOUVER — Indigenous leaders from British Columbia and Alberta who oppose Teck’s Frontier mine say its impact will be felt by First Nations well beyond the site of the massive oilsands project. Members of Indigenous Climate Action, the Tiny House Warriors and the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs were among those who gathered Monday in North Vancouver outside the office of Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson calling on him to stop the project.…

MEC to sublease head office; change business strategy to stem losses

Outdoor equipment manufacturer and retailer lost $11.5M in last fiscal year

Vancouver-based outdoor equipment retailer MEC announced today that it plans to sublease its 112,000-square-foot head office on Great Northern Way, which it built for $28 million and moved into in late-2014. The company has already started scouting the market for a new headquarters that will be about one-third the size and be somewhere in Metro Vancouver, CEO Phil Arrata told Business in Vancouver.…

Meng Wanzhou extradition hearings resume; double criminality takes centre stage

Crown, Huawei CFO to debate whether alleged crimes constitute arrestable offence in Canada

Day 1 of the double criminality debate in the Meng Wanzhou extradition hearing saw defence lawyers for the Huawei executive levying heavy attacks on the U.S. sanctions against Iran and the sanctions’ status in Canada. Defence lawyer Richard Peck echoed Meng’s document filings last week that the core issue of Meng’s arrest and extradition request is Huawei’s violation of U.S. sanctions on Iran – sanctions that Canada does not follow.…

Whistler council preview for Tuesday, Jan. 21

First look: Drinking water treatment update; Emerald land purchase on the agenda

HERE’S A QUICK LOOK at what to expect at Tuesday’s council meeting, kicking off at 5:30 p.m. at the Maury Young Arts Centre. DRINKING WATER TREATMENT UPDATE…

Protesters block access to Swartz Bay ferry terminal, delay morning sailings

Protesters blocked access to B.C. Ferries’ Swartz Bay ferry terminal this morning, delaying the 7 a.m. sailings to the Lower Mainland and Gulf Islands to support Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs in northern B.C. and their objection to a natural gas pipeline through their territory. The protest blocked Highway 17 underneath the Lands End overpass near the ferry terminal.…

The snow (or not) of 1976-77

November 1976 was dry, with a cold north wind blowing into December. From the time that Whistler Mountain opened for skiing in 1966 through the 1975-76 season, there had always been plenty of snow, with extraordinary snowfall amounts in the 1966-67, 1968-69, 1971-72, and 1973-74 seasons (1973-74 is still held up as the record year).…

Lil’wat Nation and province working on management plan for hot springs

Public survey about future management of for Keyhole and Meager Creek out now

The province and Lil’wat Nation are working collaboratively on a visitor-use management plan for two popular hot springs located in the Upper Lillooet River Valley. Harriet VanWart, director of lands and resources for the Lil’wat Nation, said the First Nation is concerned about overuse of the Meager Creek and Keyhole hot springs, both of which have specific closures in effect that are being flouted.…

James Whistler Quotes

brainyquote.com – I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I h…

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Winter storm warnings continue for Whistler and Sea to Sky

Consider postponing non-essential travel, Environment Canada says

ANOTHER WINTER storm warning is in effect for Whistler and the Sea to Sky. “A Pacific frontal system will continue to bring periods of freezing rain mixed with snow to the Whistler region.…

New fisheries minister visits B.C. slide site

Minister says disaster at Big Bar, northwest of Kamloops, is her ‘top priority’

LILLOOET, B.C.—Federal Fisheries Minister Bernadette Jordan visited the site of a massive landslide in British Columbia’s Fraser River on Friday in her first official trip since being appointed to the role late last year. She says the disaster at Big Bar, northwest of Kamloops, is her top priority and has been a key issue for the government since it was discovered in June because it threatens crucial salmon runs.…

No fooling about our food future

Blowing through our carbon budget like addicts blow through cash

The spirulina smoothies; the plateless meals and plush coffees; freakshakes; charcoal chocolates and ice cream; the avocado toast (heck, the avocado-everything). The past decade of food has served up some pretty fun and fanciful rides.…