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Environment is No. 1 issue for voters in federal election: poll

The federal campaign is now past the midway point, and the environment is now the most important issue for Canadian voters, just a point ahead of the economy and jobs in a recent Research Co. nationwide survey. While British Columbians remain particularly troubled by housing, homelessness and poverty, the province now has the third-highest proportion of residents – after Quebec and Ontario – who cite the environment as their main concern.…

Whatcha Smokin’?

Canadians face lifetime bans to U.S. over past cannabis use, CBD oils and social media posts

Each and every day, 400,000 Canadians cross the world’s longest international border, into the United States, for work, travel, and well, that cheap gas and those outlet stores. Of those crossing, some are posed the uncomfortable question: “Have you ever smoked pot?”…

The enduring appeal of community radio

I don’t know at what point it started, but for as long as I can remember, I’ve had a love affair with radio. There is something about tuning into a station, and hearing someone talk or play music in real-time, that is incredibly appealing.…

Whistler, Squamish enduro riders excel in Italy

Local riders enjoyed new Enduro World Series season wrap at Trophy of Nations

The Sea to Sky came through on the world stage in the final Enduro World Series event of 2019 at Finale Ligure, Italy on Sept. 29. In the brand-new Trophy of Nations event, where three riders from the same country drop together as part of a team event, Canada consistently swept up the bronze.…

Stl’atl’imx musicians up for eight awards

The Spiritual Warrior’s Ancestors, and the Southern Stl’atl’imx Health Society-led The Kindness Project up for Native American Music Awards

When Leroy Joe submitted two different albums for consideration at this year’s Native American Music Awards, his hope was to receive at least one nomination for each. Last week, he learned the records collectively earned a whopping eight nods.…

Fishing for Birds comes from ‘organic and messy’ beginnings

Linda Quennec’s debut novel to be featured at Whistler Writers Festival

When Linda Quennec first started writing her debut novel, she thought it was a short story. “By about 50 pages I thought, ‘Maybe this isn’t the short story I thought I was writing,'” she says.…

Whistler’s International Day of the Girl event examines the true meaning of equality

Speakers will explore gender equality in Canada and around the world at Oct. 7 event

outside of some of the darker corners of society—and let’s face it, the internet—most people would agree that gender equality is a goal we should all strive for. But does the very notion of equality distract us from the reality of the issue?…

MTB Tourism Symposium underway

Stakeholders from across B.C. and beyond descend on Creekside

More than 200 stakeholders from the mountain bike industry are in Creekside to discuss how to best manage the sport they love. The 2019 Mountain Bike Tourism Symposium will run Thursday and Friday and features speakers discussing everything from mountain biking in grizzly bear country and protecting sensitive ecosystems to protecting bike trails through proper branding and the role of research in the industry.…

Reactions provoked, but no clear victor in federal all-candidates debate in Squamish

Candidates for Sea to Sky riding sought to impress voters gathered at Quest University

While it’s unclear if they won any voters over, representatives for underdog parties at the Squamish federal all-candidates debate certainly drew the most audible reactions from the crowd. An independent candidate and the People’s Party of Canada and the Rhinoceros Party candidates, drew laughter on several occasions, and, in one case, even booing.…

New photo exhibit showcases SLCC Youth Ambassadors

AMBASSADORS is running at the centre through March 2020

Last October, Sutikem Bikadi pulled an all-nighter. For months, she had been working on an important project creating regalia that represented the ancient village of Spo7ez, which was shared by the Lil’wat and Squamish Nations at the confluence of Rubble Creek and the Cheakamus River.…

Cascadia Reed Quintet kick off new season

Vancouver group launch return of the Whistler Chamber Music Society’s series on Sunday, Oct. 6

Five years ago, Vancouver musician Colin MacDonald was researching the Dutch saxophone player Raaf Hekkema when he made a discovery. “He had other projects on the go and I saw mention of their group Calefax,” MacDonald says.…

Letters to the Editor for the week of October 3

Bullying needs to be talked about openly I was glad to see “The 4-1-1 on Bullying” article in Pique last month (Sept.19, 2019), particularly because I just have heard about another case happening in Whistler.…

Whistler, enemy No. 1?

I can’t remember whether I heard it on radio or television or read it somewhere but by far the best description of Canada’s major political parties’ climate action strategies was summed up neatly as this: The Liberals have a plan that, depending on how you look at such things, is either a glass half empty or a glass half full. The Conservative plan amounts to emptying the Liberals’ glass.…

Wilson says NDP best option for progressive voters

Wilson: ‘What we’ve had here now is a huge feeling of betrayal by a lot of people who voted Liberal in the last election’

The federal election campaign was already a week old before the NDP confirmed Judith Wilson as its candidate, in West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country, but the 67-year-old lawyer’s team has got up to speed quickly. Wilson, who lives in Langdale, is an experienced campaigner, having worked on elections around the country as a political organizer for the NDP, and as the party’s candidate in the riding in 2006, when she picked up 20 per cent of the vote in a third-place finish.…

Work on Alta Vista road results in removal of beaver habitat

Conservationist calls it ‘textbook example’ of Resort Municipality of Whistler prioritizing infrastructure over wildlife

Recent work by the Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) to prevent damage to a road in Alta Vista, which resulted in the removal of a beaver dam from a nearby pond, is “a textbook example” of the RMOW putting infrastructure over wildlife habitat, according to a longtime local conservationist. Last month, the municipality began work in the neighbourhood to ensure the integrity of the road on Hillcrest Drive after a beaver dam had caused the water of the pond to rise “to a level that it was seeping underneath the road,” which was “at risk of failure,” explained Whistler Mayor Jack Crompton.…