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Squamish Street Market returning

Monthly market starts Father’s Day June 16

Father’s Day is just around the corner and so is the first Squamish Street Market of the year. The summer event is hitting the streets on June 16, Father’s Day, with the return of live performances, the Furry Foxes, Ducks in a Truck by the Squamish Rotary Club and vendors including food trucks.…

Vancouver wood building would be world’s tallest

40-storey Canada Earth Tower proposed for Broadway corridor

If plans are hammered into reality, Vancouver’s Broadway corridor will see the world’s tallest wood residential tower and the largest Passive House project in the world ascend on West 8th Avenue over the next two to three years. Delta Land Development, working with Peter Busby of the architectural firm of Perkins+Will, has outlined a proposal for a mixed-use building that, if approved, would catapult Vancouver’s aggressive green building standards ahead by nearly a decade.…

B.C. man who scaled Everest says climb is not for ‘faint of heart’

VANCOUVER — When Chris Dare stood on the roof of the world he had tears behind his goggles. The British Columbia man has climbed mountains on seven continents in less than 10 years, but last week he feared he wouldn’t make it down the 8,848-metre peak of Mount Everest.…

PSS tackles ’90s comedy Airheads

Theatre production running from May 30 to June 2 at the Pemberton high school

Renata Zablotney likes to think outside the box when it comes to Pemberton Secondary School’s theatre productions. “I think it speaks more to (students’) interests,” says the drama teacher and director.…

The Whistlers (La Gomera) – film review

dmovies.org – Silbo Gomero is a whistled language used by the inhabitants of La Gomera in the Canary Islands, a community with no more than 20,000 inhabitants. It’s basically a transposition of Spanish from speech…

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Purr-fect cat politician upstages Bowen Island council

Council stops as cat makes entrance, takes councillor’s chair

Jax the Bowen Island council cat turned out briefly Monday (May 27) for a discussion on electric vehicle charging stations before heading home for dinner. Jax lives with the Glave family, who were wondering where he was as dusk drew in.They were soon alerted that Jax had wandered into the municipal hall down the hill.…

North Van students ahead of curve, say international policy-makers

OECD education delegates pay visit to Argyle and Mountainside schools

North Vancouver public schools are ahead of the curve when it comes to student engagement was the consensus among international education delegates who toured two high schools here last week. Argyle and Mountainside were two of four B.C. schools selected to be showcased for the world’s top education policy-makers on Friday.…

OPINION: Heated debate over sunscreen’s effects on body and environment

Pick proper sunscreen that protects your skin and doesn’t pollute the water

You may remember the viral commencement speech from the 1990s that started with two simple words of advice for graduates: “Wear sunscreen.” Twenty years later, sunscreen has become ubiquitous in our warming, hot, sunny summers, even here on the supposedly soggy West Coast.…

Luge Canada looks to bring World Champs to Whistler

Event would move from Calgary, whose track is facing uncertainty

Calgary’s loss could be Whistler’s gain. Luge Canada is preparing to pitch the International Luge Federation (FIL) on moving the 2021 World Championships to the Whistler Sliding Centre at the FIL’s congress on Ljubjana, Slovenia on June 14 and 15.…

Is money laundering driving the B.C. real estate bus?

Debate swirls over the impact eliminating money laundering would have on province’s real estate sector

A simple addition and subtraction equation might not add up to the right answer when calculating money laundering’s impact on the B.C. economy, according to some experts. A May report led by Simon Fraser University public policy professor and former B.C. deputy attorney general Maureen Maloney concluded $5.3 billion was laundered through the province’s real estate market in 2018.…

Upper Squamish Valley fire officially out

Open burn ban for category 2 fires scheduled for Thursday in Coastal Fire Centre

It has finally been declared out. The Coastal Fire Centre told The Chief that the wildfire in the Upper Squamish Valley, which began April 1, was declared officially out on Friday, May 24.…

Wildfire -response exercise to be held on Blackcomb Mountain

Smoke will be visible in resort from May 29 controlled burns

Don’t be alarmed if you see smoke rising from the slopes of Blackcomb Mountain in the coming days. The BC Wildfire Service is conductinga wildfire training exercise with Whistler Blackcomb resort staff and members of the Whistler Fire Rescue Service on Wednesday, May 29 near the top of the Fitzsimmons Express chairlift.…

NATURESPEAK: Morels are everywhere and impossible to find

Whistler Naturalists warn pickers not to eat any mushroom without being sure it is not toxic

Until a few years ago, I was certain that I did not enjoy mushrooms of any kind. The generally weird, slimy consistency just didn’t do it for me. It took the tender meatiness and earthy, nut-like flavour of Morchella esculenta, or yellow morel, to convince me otherwise.…

Woodfibre seeks simple amendment to its Environmental Certificate

The change would clarify the term ‘construction’ to allow for further site clean up

Woodfibre LNG is seeking what is called a “simple amendment” to its Environmental Assessment Certificate to more broadly define the term “construction.”; A public comment period is not required for such an amendment, according to the Environmental Assessment Office.…

Council preview for Tuesday, May 28

First look: Cheakamus housing finances; compost contract, Strategic Planning Committee terms of reference 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. CHEAKAMUS HOUSING FINANCES…