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This is what a $15 million Whistler ski home looks like

freshdaily.ca – With ski season just around the corner I can’t help but dream of fresh powder, cozy fires and that perfect après-ski hang out spot. And if I were to imagine what that place might look like I think it…

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Unearthed

Sometimes when I tell myself to breathe, it triggers panic—as if by drawing attention to this innate, unconscious, automatic action, breathing in and out suddenly becomes improbably difficult. Meditation, swimming laps, yoga…all these experiences often contain a few extremely panicked moments when I gasp, unable to catch a breath that has suddenly awakened to itself, like an animal realizing it is trapped and throwing itself at the bars of the cage.…

CERN: Where Art, Science and Emotion Collide

July 4, 2012: Sensational headlines were everywhere—and they had nothing to do with America’s Independence Day. CERN was at the heart of them.…

Whistler ski-cross racer qualifies for Youth Olympics

Morrow heading to Switzerland in January

Jack Morrow’s first overseas race is set to be a doozy. The Whistler ski-cross racer will head to Switzerland next month for the Youth Olympic Games in Lausanne after qualifying in early December.…

Saving species, saving information

Recently it was revealed that since 1970, 60 per cent of all vertebrate animals on the planet have been wiped out. Adding that to the fact that current whole-species extinction is running 1,000 to 10,000 times the background rate seen in the fossil record, the planetary biodiversity crisis seems only to be accelerating.…

Pemberton food bank seeks donations in absence of annual fundraiser

Sea to Sky Community Services hopes to find a new home for The Gingerbread Project

It’s well known that the holidays can be a challenging time for families, with food banks serving as a crucial resource for those in need. And while donations are picking up, the Pemberton Food Bank will have to make due without the assistance of a crucial fundraising event, as The Gingerbread Project is not taking place this year.…

Grizzly bears move north in High Arctic as climate change expands range

Some unlikely neighbours are moving in around the northernmost communities of the Northwest Territories, across the icy tundra of Canada’s High Arctic. Inuvialuit hunters and trappers say grizzly bears are showing up in increasing numbers on islands of the Beaufort Sea and experts say climate change is likely a driving factor.…

Corless, Nash enjoy historic Whistler World Cup debut

Germans top doubles race at Whistler Sliding Centre

Natalie Corless and Caitlin Nash made history at the Whistler Sliding Centre on Saturday. The Whistler 16-year-olds successfully completed both runs of the Viessmann FIL World Cup doubles event, finishing 22nd out of 23 sleds, as one sled did not finish its second run.…

Is MEC losing money or investing for the future?

$11.5m loss raises questions over whether retailer is strategically restructuring or falling behind

An $11.5 million loss for a retailer over one year no doubt sounds like a tidy sum to the average Vancouverite. But context is everything, according to retail analyst David Ian Gray.…

SLRD adopts new campground bylaw

Development proposals must meet traffic and site management standards

A new bylaw about campgrounds in the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District has been adopted. Campsites on agricultural land are already regulated through the Agricultural Land Commission—but until now there was no established standard for campgrounds on private land.…

Whistler Film Festival hands out awards

Also in arts news: Sea to Sky Singers present Celtic Christmas; Audain Art Museum hosts glass etching

The tickets have been taken, the popcorn eaten and—most importantly—the awards handed out. The Whistler Film Festival wrapped up its 19th edition on Sunday, Dec. 8.…

Naturespeak: It’s all for the birds

Birds are the most-studied organisms in Whistler thanks to a long-term volunteer bird-monitoring program. Birds are an indicator species—tracking their behaviour and numbers can tell us a lot about what’s happening in our environment.…

Navigating difficult climate conversations

The facts of the climate crisis aren’t in dispute. We know the planet is heating at an unnaturally rapid rate, mostly because humans are wastefully burning fossil fuels and destroying natural areas like forests and wetlands that store carbon, putting human health and survival at risk.…

Whistler Nordics alum Davies starts NorAm season with U20 win

Sports briefs: Canadians shine at ski-cross opener

Joe Davies is adjusting well to his new home. The Pembertonian moved to Canmore, Alta. for this coming cross-country ski season, and in his first NorAm race with the Foothills Nordic Ski Club, Davies scored a 16th-place finish in the 10-kilometre interval start classic event in the open men’s category on Dec. 7.…

Russians dominant at FIL World Cup

Locals finish back of the pack at Whistler Sliding Centre

Roman Repilov fell just two-thousandths of a second short of setting the Whistler Sliding Centre track record, but he still walked away with the Viessmann FIL World Cup men’s singles victory on Friday night. The Russian posted a second-run time of 49.839 seconds to jump from second to first and win the third stop of the season.…