Here's another one

Some brilliant writer named Mitch also wrote a pithy piece looking at Alberta as an example of conservative fiscal management: http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2011/04/13/HarpersBigQuestion/

Number 1

Tyee, you are my number one source for news.

You have touched many of the topics that one never sees in mainstream media. And this is not just for this election but for many other issues we have in this country and province.

This is the type of journalism that I expect, and probably many of my Canadian friends do to. Impartial, stating the facts and let the reader decide.

Thank you for your coverage on the election. You have done a great job and I hope that through your excellent articles some people actually start to think and look at how we actually being served as a society with news and issues that need to be talked about and resolved.

Keep up the great work. And thank you.

some of the best

Easily some of the best journalism during this election where journalism has been in short supply. I've shared many of these articles with as many voters as I can.. well done.

Great job

Take a deep bow and then let us know what you've got planned for Monday night.

Time to go print media

You are my number 1 source of BC and Canadian alternative news source. BC mainstream media don't stand a chance. It's time to go print media may be in small scale in BC, as it is very important to bring the awareness level of masses up before we go into elections in future.
I depend on your news, so does hundreds of my friends.

I think...

...that The Tyee did a terrific job! Congratulations! BTW, please vote! @Rolf_Auer

WAKE UP VOTERS

You have done a wonderful job of printing information that main stream media will not touch with a ten foot pole. You have done your job. We encourage people we talk with to visit thetyee and the common sense Canadian but it seems to be a losing game, people seem to want to listen to BCTV, read the Sun and Province papers and not seek out other alternatives for information. We have been trying to get out the word about other information since we started with the anti-HST movement.

Thanks for giving space to folks with something to say about...

....Strategic voting.

And while I realize it came late in the race, the place where you could have used a little more coverage was how folks can also factor in the Dipper Surge.

In that vein you can find a Comprehensive Strat And Surge Guide to voting in British Columbia here

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Harper's economic mess

Would you believe it? the Province actually published two critical articles today about Harper's economic record:
http://www.theprovince.com/news/decision-canada/Harper+economic+record/4705705/story.html
and
http://www.theprovince.com/news/decision-canada/Harper+economic+record/4705701/story.html
I guess the editors at the Sun just closed their eyes when they endorsed Harper
thank you Tyee for your fabulous election coverage

Thank you

Without you guys BC's news landscape would be barren. Great writers.

fantastic coverage

unbelievably good coverage, loved the indepth analysis of Harper and the social media.

(I don't even read mainstream coverage anymore at least not for real analysis. I did have a great laugh though over the Mop & Pail's insane endorsement of Harper and the incisive skewering and almost unanimous and overwhelming rejection by their readers.)

Kudos to the Tyee! you're a great example what new media can (and should) do.

Thanks

We need great journalism that investigates and informs.... and so the kind of work this impressive, often brave series of Tyee articles represents is much appreciated.

Well done.

TYEE COVERAGE OF THE ELECTION

Your coverage has really been excellent. Having lived in the States and seeing what the Republicans have done to destroy America it is imperative that we do not allow Stephen Harper to destroy Canada in the same way as he, apparently, blindly wants to do. Thank you so much for being here. British Columbia would be a much poorer province without you.

More thanks

Few things push my buttons more than federal Conservatives and BC Liberals. As the MSM relentlessly, day and night, sanitizes, deoderizes and minimizes the heinous acts committed by our rightwing governments, it is oddly refreshing to have the foulness our governments revealed. It is to the Tyee I come when I want, like a dog, to roll in the stench of what is true so that I might broadcast that foulness to others. Funny, I've never really understood dogs on this level before - one more thing for which to be grateful to the writers and editors at The Tyee. You folks rock!

Election Coverage

I think you've done an excellent job of covering the election. It's nice to be able to get news that isn't slanted like all the major newspapers (Sun, Province, Globe & Mail, Times Colonist).
Let's all vote and unseat Harper!!!

Thanks tyee, great coverage! It's down to the wire.

According to this latest poll:

http://ipolitics.ca/2011/05/01/ipolitics-ekos-poll-cpc-34-6-ndp-31-4-and-a-final-forecast-tonight-at-10-p-m/

The NDP is only 3 points behind the Conservatives and virtually in a dead heat here in BC. Hope everyone goes out to vote strategically tomorrow.

Wouldn't it be nice if it came down to the wire and we here in BC handed the reins of government to a coalition which now includes more that 65% of the electorate? Plus, if the NDP wins, we are out of the HST free and clear. No repaying the 1.6 billion bribe/threat and no HST! If the Conservatives win they will have us paying higher sucker taxes (HST) until hell freezes over.

thank you, Tyee

I have not read much mainstream media during this election: only when alerted by social media or alternative media (as in the case of the Globe and Mail's endorsement of Harper). I am not alone; more and more people are moving this way. Please, let us keep the focus on how the mainstream media 'frames' the issues and continues to insist that we are interested in - oh, the royal wedding, for example - in the face of all evidence to the contrary.

A democracy cannot continue to exist without some truly 'free' press.

Thank You

Thanks to the folks at The Tyee for the excellent coverage!

MIA - Green Voice

Yes, the Tyee has provided commendable coverage and welcomed criticism on many fronts.

But, as in previous elections (and perhaps even more pronounced than previously) I note a gap in recognizing and acknowledging the Green Party.

The BIG issue that was ignored here, either tacitly or overtly, was the exclusion of the Green Party leader from the leaders debates. This is not an insignificant issue, IMO, but linked to a highly flawed and biased national electoral system. And the Tyee - as a purported socially-progressive media outlet, said nothing about this. I think that's shameful.

As a long-time Tyee reader and participant, I've long seen evidence of your disdain for provincial and federal Green Party politics, in favour of an NDP bias. I think this weakens your base support and certainly diminishes the integrity of the efforts of the Tyee and its contributors. I encourage you to make adjustments to this policy in the future.
- michael maser

Michael Maser

This story

http://thetyee.ca/News/2011/04/29/NoDirtyTricks/

with a picture of Elizabeth May remained at the top of our home page from Friday through Monday morning the weekend before the election. Any of the other leaders would have been glad for that presence, I'd think.

And when you punch Green Party Elizabeth May into the Tyee search you get this evidence that we've hardly ignored her.

http://www.google.ca/custom?q=Green+Party+Elizabeth+May&domains=thetyee.ca&sitesearch=thetyee.ca&client=pub-2188005021510640&forid=1&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&cof=GALT:%23008000;GL:1;DIV:%23336699;VLC:663399;AH:center;BGC:FFFFFF;LBGC:FFFFFF;ALC:0000FF;LC:0000FF;T:000000;GFNT:0000FF;GIMP:0000FF;FORID:1;&sa.x=0&sa.y=0&sa=Go

The Green Party

Has the only rational position on our national bank which I have seen in this election. I hope they win on the Islands. This link to the Green site presents a clear and simple synopsis of Canada's bank problem and how to fix it. Very short and easy to read. I hope they win on the Islands.

If Green wins on the Islands

we would have at least one progressive voice in parliament on the obvious advantages of using our National Bank to save 31 billion a year in interest payments to private corporations. But because that is the only place they could win in this election. I hope Green supporters in other ridings hold their noses and vote to defeat the Conservatives.

IMO - pretty fluffy (Green) coverage

Hello David, thanks for your response.

In taking some time to check over your links I can see that indeed there are many references to Ms May and the GP in the Tyee-o-sphere. But by far the majority of these are passing references, hiccups from your blogosphere, with a few more in-depth stories scattered with wire stories linked in and dating back 5-6 years.

I can just imagine the Jihad the Tyee would have mounted if the NDP were threatened with the equivalent of debate-exclusion; likewise, I wonder how the Tyee might have responded if the NDP leader chose to run in a BC riding, as has Ms May.

And I'd like to point out it was the initiative of the media vilified by Rafe in his current column - the Vancouver Sun - to allow Ms May to respond to the leaders debate from which she was excluded.

So, at the end of the day, I still think Green coverage in the Tyee has been, and continues to be weak, despite otherwise very commendable and valued social coverage.

michael maser

If the Greens want to be taken seriously, they're going to have to come up with a lot more cohesive proposal than their platform, released just a few weeks ago, with the most contradictory proposals seen since Fawlty Towers' method of dealing with the Germans.

National passenger rail services without addressing subsidies to road use, and legalizing pot without consequences are just two of the more bizarre and contradictory proposals I read in their platform.

When you're ready to have a serious debate, bring it on. Meantime, the Greens got all the coverage they deserved, which is to say, personalities and dreams only.