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Whistler Cycling Club starting fifth season

Sports briefs: Welsh helps Spruce Kings to Doyle Cup; Locals run BMO Vancouver Marathon

The Whistler Cycling Club is gearing up for its fifth summer on local roads. The club is always looking for new members, according to president Bob Barnett, and is also looking for existing members to take on the role of ride leaders.…

Pro skier Austin Ross hits the stage

After debuting his musical talents last year, the Pemberton athlete is ready to make more music

Austin Ross might be best known as a professional skier, but ever since he was a teen growing up in Pemberton, he’s also been quietly strumming away on his guitar. “I’ve always just loved music my whole life,” he says.…

Government support for electric vehicles drives down emissions

Electric vehicles (EV) won’t save us from runaway climate change, but they’re part of the solution, along with support for public transit and active transport like walking and cycling. The transportation sector accounts for almost one-quarter of the world’s carbon emissions, so it’s an area where change is necessary and possible.…

Naturespeak: Bill Mathews, giant of Sea-to-Sky Geology

The truly epic geology of the Sea to Sky corridor has, unsurprisingly, attracted many fantastic geoscientists over the years. But one stands above the rest—William “Bill” Mathews, a pioneering Canadian geologist who dedicated his life to the study of Sea-to-Sky geology, and in doing so influenced generations of Earth scientists.…

About a Squamish businesswoman, mom, and former NXIVM member

‘It is important for everyone to know—especially women—everything you feel is totally valid,’ says Candee Clark

As the saying goes, if you look in the dictionary under “new Squamish,” Candee Clark’s image could be there. She is a young, creative hiking and (recently) biking mom with her own graphic design business.…

Furball noir

Pokémon are like herpes; they just keep coming back. Those little colourful creatures were created in 1995 (in Japan of course) and quickly took over the civilized world via video games, comics, cartoons, playing cards, merchandise, airplane paint jobs, groundbreaking augmented reality (who can forget Pokémon Go?)…

Whistler expected to hit ‘extreme’ fire danger over the weekend

Residents, guests reminded to be vigilant

With temperatures rising, Whistler’s fire danger rating is expected to climb to “extreme” this weekend. The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) is reminding residents and visitors to be extra vigilant.…

Low B.C. snowpacks reduce flood risk, hike chance of summer droughts

Snowpacks across British Columbia are below normal this year, reducing the likelihood of flooding but raising the spectre of dry conditions this summer. The River Forecast Centre has released its latest Snow Survey and Water Supply Bulletin showing the average of all mountain snowpacks in B.C. is calculated at just 79 per cent of normal.…

Muse Lab helps locals put needle to fabric

New workshop space offers array of art and textile classes

When Barbora Vanickova first arrived in Whistler in November 2011, she was only supposed to stay for a month before returning home to put her Master of Journalism degree to work. “I came in really blindly,” she says.…

Dazzling debut for Esslinger

German international student placed as Grand Champion, Reserve Champion in first equestrian event

Lara Esslinger made an impression with her first-ever equestrian competition at the Tbird Hunter Jumper April Season Opener at Langley’s Thunderbird Show Park last month.
The German student, who is living in Pemberton for the school year and training at the Pemberton Valley Equestrian Centre, excelled in her debut. Esslinger rode Rivaldi, owned by Sally Warner, to place as Grand Champion and Reserve Champion in the 0.85m Open Jumper and junior amateur jumper divisions.…

Alta Bistro named best of Whistler at Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards

First win at prestigious awards for modern French eatery

For the second year in a row, a first-time winner has been named as Whistler’s top restaurant at the prestigious Vancouver Magazine Restaurant Awards. “Well, sooner or later the local secret had to get out, and this is the year our judges decided to spill it: Gold winner Alta Bistro is the best restaurant in Whistler,” wrote Vancouver Magazine, the B.C. restaurant industry’s perennial tastemaker.…

The golden age of the music festival is over

I was sitting at my desk on a fall day in 2013 when a vague email popped up. But it wasn’t one of the countless irrelevant press releases I delete daily; rather, it alluded to some kind of vague, exciting announcement that would take place the next day in Pemberton.…

Fishery restrictions on Fraser River fail to address root causes of Chinook’s decline, say anglers

Less than 1% of Chinook harvested in southern Georgia Strait last year were from stocks of concern

Close to 200 protesters gathered outside of federal fisheries minister Jonathan Wilkinson’s North Vancouver office last week to speak out against a decision to restrict Fraser River Chinook sportfishing that anglers are calling short-sighted. Last month, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) announced mandatory catch-and-release restrictions for commercial and recreational anglers it says are intended to protect dwindling Chinook stocks.…

Man killed in fiery B.C. border crash identified as pastor, father of three

Tom Cheung served at Port Moody Pacific Grace MB Church

SURREY, B.C. — A man who was killed in a fiery crash near the Peace Arch border crossing in British Columbia last week was a pastor and father of three from Richmond. A friend identified him in a statement on Wednesday as Tom Cheung, the lead pastor of Port Moody Pacific Grace MB Church.…

Said the Whale gives young B.C. musicians a boost

Vancouver indie-rockers are set to kick off summer with GO Fest concert May 18

Need reprieve from endless disheartening conversations about the housing market? You might want to invite Said the Whale frontman Tyler Bancroft to your next dinner party.…