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Arts Whistler launches new month of Bike Sessions

By Alyssa Noel Catch Conor Fitz & Rad livestreaming on Thursday, June 4 Everyone has had to find ways to adapt during the COVID-19 pandemic—and that includes members of Whistler’s arts and music scene. Flexibility and creativity is what lead to Arts Whistler’s brand new Bike Shop Sessions, a weekly livestream concert series that takes […]

Squamish Search and Rescue: five incidents in three days

By Steven Chua / Squamish Chief Provincial Health Officer Dr. Bonnie Henry asking people to avoid ‘extra risks’ Following five deployments from Thursday to Saturday, Squamish Search and Rescue is asking the public to keep their recreation objectives conservative, as COVID-19 pandemic protocols are still in place. These weekend operations required a lot of resources.…

Hope for an ALS cure for Squamish ski instructor, and others like him

By Jennifer Thuncher/The Squamish Chief Local man finishing stem cell trials in California, looking for next option and hope Sea to Sky folks can help In the summer of 2018, Squamish’s Ryoichi Hosoya felt a weird feeling in his right foot.…

Vail Resorts lost US$264M in net revenue last quarter

By Brandon Barrett Lift revenue also down 29% due to effects of COVID-19 Vail Resorts gave a window into the financial impact COVID-19 has wrought on the multi-national ski company in its most recently quarterly report. For the fiscal quarter ending April 30, Whistler Blackcomb’s parent company reported its net revenue fell US$263.9 million, or […]

New study is first full list of species that only exist in Canada

By The Canadian Press For the first time, Canadian biologists have come up with a list of plants, insects and animals that live only in this country and say many of them are in danger of extinction if they haven’t died out already. Nature Conservancy of Canada biologist Dan Kraus said when the United Nations […]

COVID-19 hits B.C. men harder than women

By Glen Korstrom / Glacier Media Women outnumber men in being infected, but their infections are less serious The B.C. government on June 4 released updated data that showed COVID-19 has been a more devastating illness for men than it has been women. While women represented about 52 per cent of the 2,562 COVID-19 cases […]

Rare dinosaur stomach fossil opens door to ancient world

By Bob Weber / The Canadian Press Digestive organ only one of three in the world Fresh ferns, loaded with spores, lightly dusted with leaves and twigs and perfectly seasoned with locally sourced charcoal. Sound good?…

Video of officer seen punching driver to be investigated: Kelowna RCMP

By Pat Bulmer , Kelowna Daily Courier / The Canadian Press KELOWNA, B.C. — A video circulating on social media that appears to show a Mountie punching a combative driver doesn’t tell the full story, the Kelowna detachment’s top officer said Tuesday. The RCMP have launched an investigation into what happened, said RCMP Supt. Brent […]

Local teens organize Whistler anti-racism rally

By Brandon Barrett ‘We really all just need to break the silence,’ says First Nations organizer For 15-year-old Charlize Littlelight, the discrimination she’s experienced growing up as a First Nations woman in the Sea to Sky hasn’t taken the form of the kind of overt, blatant acts of racism we often see splashed on the […]

Vancouver council says no to legal drinking in public spaces

By Mike Howell/Glacier Syndicated Chief medical health officer warns of ‘significant binge-drinking culture’ in B.C. A Vancouver city councillor’s push to allow people to legally drink alcohol in select public spaces got shot down Tuesday after councillors opposed to the idea cited concerns about increasing alcoholism among British Columbians. Though the council vote ended in […]

Trudeau government given failing grade for lack of action plan on MMIWG

By The Canadian Press OTTAWA – It was Sonya Nadine Mae Cywink’s 31st birthday when she went missing in Ontario in mid-August of 1994. She was with child.…

Foreign cyberthreats to Canada persist: spy agency

By Jeremy Hainsworth / Glacier Media Global Five Eyes alliance had Huawei concerns The Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) says it will continue to shine light into the dark corners of economic and technological threats by terrorists, foreign powers or companies associated with them. “Cyber-espionage, cyber-sabotage, cyber-foreign-influence, and cyberterrorism pose significant threats to Canada’s […]

RCMP needs your help identifying fraudster

By Brandon Barrett Police Briefs: Motorcyclist involved in hit-and-run at Marketplace Pemberton RCMP is asking the public for help identifying an unknown man who fraudulently attempted to take money out of an individual’s account at two separate banks. Police said the first incident took place at a Pemberton bank on Saturday, May 16 before a […]

CRA snitch line now open to information about federal COVID-19 aid fraud

By Kirsten Clarke / Richmond News The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has expanded its so-called snitch line to any tips and leads about suspected fraud in the federal government’s COVID-19 emergency aid programs. An update to the webpage for the agency’s National Leads Program Monday, states that the CRA is now accepting information about the […]

Sea to Sky Highway Road Trip Guide: Driving from Vancouver to Whistler

happiestoutdoors.ca – As a local, I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve driven the Sea to Sky Highway from Vancouver to Whistler. I’d say I drive it at least twice a year, but probably more. It’s a gorgeous drive along t… Tweeted by @playoutsidegal https://twitter.com/playoutsidegal/status/1266527750032175109