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Banff supports overpass for wildlife across Trans-Canada

MOUNTAIN NEWS: For the week of Sept. 5

CANMORE, Alta. – Banff municipal officials have announced their support for another wildlife crossing over the Trans-Canada Highway, this one east of Banff National Park. If built, it would be the seventh overpass along with 38 underpasses in an 82-kilometre highway segment in the Canadian Rockies.…

Here’s how much your rent can legally be increased in B.C. in 2020

Renters across the province are getting a bit of a break. The provincial government announced Wednesday, Sept. 4 the maximum allowable rent increase for 2020 is 2.6 per cent, the province’s annual rate of inflation.…

Trek Red Truck take RBC GranFondo Whistler wins

Armstrong, Rathwell wins individual titles

Brendan Armstrong captured both individual and team honours at the RBC GranFondo Whistler on Sept. 7.The Vancouver resident won the St. Regis Cup division of the 122-kilometre road cycling race from Stanley Park to Whistler Village, crossing the line two minutes and 16 seconds ahead of a pack of riders led by runners-up Alexander Murison and Nigel Kinney. In a race where the winners are in a tight pack more often than not, Armstrong was thrilled to be able to have the spotlight to himself coming in across the finish.…

Grits, Tories start election campaign in dead heat, NDP, Greens tied: Poll

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and Andrew Scheer’s Conservatives were running neck-and-neck during warm-up laps for the start of the 40-day federal election campaign, a new poll suggests. The Leger poll — released just hours before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to fire the starting gun Wednesday — suggests Jagmeet Singh’s NDP and Elizabeth May’s Greens were also in a dead heat, competing for a distant third place.…

Federal election campaign begins today with leaders in Ontario, Quebec and B.C.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kicks off his bid for re-election today, heading to Rideau Hall this morning to ask Gov. Gen. Julie Payette to dissolve Parliament. With that starts a 40-day campaign that will see Trudeau make the pitch to Canadians that he should be given a second term, while his opponents focus not just on why he shouldn’t, but why they should have a chance at governing instead.…

INVESTIGATION: Municipalities not adhering to information access laws

British Columbians’ legal access to government data hindered by bureaucrats

A Glacier Media project to test B.C. freedom of information (FOI) laws found municipalities met basic requirements but varied widely in how they complied with similar requests. Glacier Media reporters and editors asked 24 municipalities each for five recent records to see if officials could or would comply within the province’s FOI law.…

Drunk Windsor man lights T-shirt on fire following arrest in Whistler

Also in police briefs: Mount Currie man breaches court conditions

Whistler police put out a fire before any damage was caused after a drunk Windsor man tried to light his own shirt ablaze following his arrest last week, according to a release. At about 9 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 7, Whistler RCMP received a complaint of an intoxicated person walking along Highway 99 near Blueberry.…

B.C. government offers $8.8 million in student mental health, substance use help

The B.C. government is offering up $8.87 million to school districts and independent schools for mental health and wellness programs over the next three years. The money will be used to give individual grants to help support children with mental health difficulties or substance use challenges.…

In 2017, B.C. forest fires released a staggering amount of GHGs

Strong economic, population growth almost erase GHG emissions reductions over past decade

Half a per cent. That’s how much British Columbia’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions declined overall over a 10-year period, according to the B.C. government’s annual greenhouse gas inventory for 2017.…

Permanent daylight time gets overwhelming support in B.C. survey

VICTORIA — More than 93 per cent of respondents to a B.C. government survey didn’t want to turn back time in the spring. The premier’s office says 223,273 people responded to the survey and a strong majority of them supported moving permanently to daylight time.…

Cultivating a sense of home

LETTER: For the week of Sept. 5

I loved Brandon Barrett’s far-reaching feature, “Turning the page” (Pique, Aug. 29), describing how libraries—Whistler’s, the Xwi7xwa library at UBC, and more—are staying wonderfully relevant in our fast-changing world. I’m so glad librarians don’t shush us anymore, and that libraries themselves are more welcoming than ever for all kinds of people.…

Village of Pemberton Council preview for Tuesday, Sept. 9

First look: Daycare building application; OCP amendment for Sunstone Ridge expansion; 2018 Annual Report Daycare building applicationOCP Amendment 2018 Annual Report

Here’s a quick look at what you can expect at the Tuesday, Sept. 10 Village of Pemberton (VOP) regular council meeting. The meeting kicks off 5:30 p.m. at Council Chambers (7400 Prospect Street).…

Capilano University offering ECE training in Squamish

Courses offered at the Quest University campus starting in September

Those interested in a career in childcare now have an education option in Squamish. Capilano University is expanding its offerings of Early Childhood Education (ECE) programs by launching classes in Squamish at its Sechelt campus starting this month.…

Are B.C. buying habits being influenced by consumer activism?

There has never been a better time to register our displeasure with how companies treat us. The days of letters that were never answered and endless hours on the phone waiting for a representative to take a call that is “extremely important – please stay on the line” are gone.…

A wet end to August 1991

Recently, we here at the Whistler Museum were tasked with finding more information about a flood that washed out and damaged several bridges over Fitzsimmons Creek in the 1990s. As it turned out, the flooding had happened 28 years ago last week, with the bulk of information found in the Sept. 5, 1991 edition of The Whistler Question.…