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Friday afternoon SeaBus sailings cancelled in Coast Mountain Bus strike

People who commute In September, TransLink introduced 10-minute SeaBus service during rush hour.…

Squamish Nation aims to bring 1,000 members home

Nation’s council has formed non-profit housing society with mandate to build below-market rental units on undeveloped reserve lands

The Squamish Nation is on its way to bringing home around 1,000 of its members who have been unable to live on their North Shore and Squamish Valley reserve lands. The nation’s council has formed a non-profit housing society with a mandate to build below-market rental units on undeveloped reserve lands for Squamish Nation members currently caught in the housing affordability crisis.…

Whistler legend Brandon Semenuk tops Red Bull Rampage

Sports briefs: No X Games for Calgary

Whistler’s Brandon Semenuk headed up an all-Canadian sweep of the Red Bull Rampage podium in Virgin, Utah on Oct. 25. The 28-year-old scored a 92.33 on his first run, which ended up being enough to hold off defending champion Brett Rheeder’s tally of 91.…

Vancouver comic Jane Stanton ditches her day job

Stand-up joins K.C. Novak and Patrik Maliha as part of Comedy Kitchen on Nov. 7

After nearly 15 years in the biz, Jane Stanton can officially call herself a full-time comedian. “So many people are always like, ‘It must be so hard to do stand-up.’…

Whistler has ‘high degree’ of confidence in recycling program

Mayor Crompton and Recycle BC defend recycling rates following controversial Marketplace report

The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is throwing its support behind Recycle BC following a CBC Marketplace investigation that raised questions about whether or not the materials we throw in our blue bins are actually recycled. “We have a high degree of confidence in Recycle BC’s work, and we have a high degree of confidence in Recycle BC’s reporting,” said Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton.…

Halloween Stories

Halloween has always been a time of year that draws out the inner storyteller in all of us. As the shadows grow longer and the chill in the air crispens, we open ourselves up to the mystery of the world, the things we struggle to explain.…

Whistler Mountain Ski Club alum savours first World Cup start

Riley Seger failed to qualify for second run in debut

Riley Seger didn’t quite have the World Cup debut he hoped for, but he was glad to have achieved the milestone. Lining up at Soelden, Austria on Oct. 27, Seger completed his first run, but with only the top 30 competitors advancing, he did not qualify for a second run.…

Terra Lightfoot heads back to Whistler

Singer-songwriter-guitarist brings new, travel-inspired material to the Maury Young Arts Centre on Monday, Nov. 4

“Just one sec, sorry,” Terra Lightfoot says over the phone, in the middle of our interview. “Hey, when they finish this take you can just tell them to take a break?”…

‘I’ve always had a need to try everything I’ve ever wanted to do’

The multitudinous Lil’wat artist Levi Nelson on his first solo exhibit

Levi Nelson still remembers when the Kevin Costner-helmed Western, Dances with Wolves, was released to much fanfare 20 years ago. To a young Lil’wat boy who had never seen faces that looked like his on the big screen, the film, which tells the story of an American Civil War soldier who develops a bond with a band of Lakota, was a revelation.…

Murder scene campsite: a Halloween tradition

It was a dark and stormy night. Actually, it was a dark and crystal clear night.…

Free will astrology for the week of October 31

ARIES (March 21-April 19):
Do you have any skill in fulfilling the wishes and answering the prayers of your allies? Have you developed a capacity to tune in to what people want even when they themselves aren’t sure of what they want?…

Wanderlust won’t return to Whistler in 2020

Yoga and wellness festival scales back as it looks to reinvent

After seven years in the resort, Wanderlust will not return to Whistler in 2020. The yoga and wellness festival is taking the year to massively scale back—from 18 North American events to just three—though it hopes to return in 2021, said Wanderlust CEO Sean Hoess.…

The Oldening

There’s a ghost in my house and he is me. There’s also a vampire, werewolf, zombie and Frankenstein’s monster—and all of them are also me. On Halloween night, this collection of terrors will shamble between haunted houses under pitch-black October skies, favouring the heel he hurt jogging four months ago that never seemed to heal, chasing a child down pumpkin-lit pathways towards waiting bowls of candy.…

Strata termination could force sale of Sushi Village, Black’s and Mexican Corner for ‘nickels on the dollar’

Resort Municipality of Whistler has raised issue with province, but no obvious legislative fix, says mayor

The termination of a mixed-use strata last summer could force the sale of three longstanding village businesses for well below market value, according to a concerned citizen speaking on behalf of the businesses. In August, a vote passed the 80-per-cent threshold required to terminate the Sundial strata corporation, a mixed-use Phase 2 and commercial strata.…

Questions abound at info meetings for Whistler housing project

Rezoning bylaws, formal public hearing to follow

A pair of open houses on Oct. 24 for a proposed employee housing project on Alta Lake Road were well attended, with a wide range of questions and comments heard—both for and against. Like others before it, the development at 5298 Alta Lake Rd. has drawn the ire of nearby neighbours, who wrote to council en masse to oppose it before it was first presented on Sept. 17.…