BC Urged to Respond to the Pandemic Kid Crisis
COVID-19 turned the world into a frightening place and has stressed children and families. Advocates want a major government response.
First Nations Fail in Top Court Bid to Halt Trans Mountain Pipeline
Chief challenging lower court ruling calls decision ‘a major setback for reconciliation.’
The 100-Mile Chef Meets the Pandemic ‘Apocalypse’
Andrea Carlson expects ‘the best summer ever.’ But only because, by playing it smart and local, she kept her restaurant alive.
A Dozen Local Food Heroes on What a Pandemic Teaches
We asked: What has COVID-19 shown you about making our food system better?
BC’s Online Abortion Services Increasing Access in Pandemic
The number of clinics offering access to needed medication without physical appointments has tripled.
Let’s Name Our Schools after Vancouver’s True Heroes
Why are kids still learning in buildings honouring colonists and war generals?
Can Global Cuisine Go Local? It’s Complicated
Meeru Dhalwala, co-founder of famed Indian restaurant Vij’s, on the power of food to connect.
This Canada Day, We Need a New Citizenship Oath
Our current process teaches new Canadians all about colonial relations with Indigenous people. Why?
The Vancouver Company Turning Blood into a COVID Treatment: A Tyee Video
WATCH: Antibody therapy can help save lives. Here’s how it works.
New Findings on Herd Immunity. And More Science Info Straight from Journals
The latest roundup of pandemic research gathered by Hakai Magazine.
For My Family, Remote Learning Has Been a Failure of Pandemic Proportions
Through it all, classrooms — and teachers — have proven irreplaceable.
Kenney, like Trump, Is Trapped in a Political Fantasyland
Alberta faces an economic reckoning while its government wallows in old grievances and division.
Growing Wheat Is a Rare Art in Rainy BC. Meet Some Pioneers
They include Yoshi Sugiyama, whose fascination with farming sprouted as a kid in Tokyo.
Is It in Us to Build a Post-Pandemic Utopia?
Rutger Bregman says humans are made to pursue kind cooperation. Beware, though, our Hobbesian glitch.
A Police Wellness Check Left Me Terrified and Determined to End the Practice
As a Black man, I feared for my life. We need to hold law enforcement accountable before any more lives are lost.
First Nations Are Faring Well in Pandemic, but Fear BC’s Latest Moves
Decision to expand travel made without consultation and creating new risks for Indigenous communities, leaders say.
Security Camera Captures Heavily Armed RCMP at Wet’suwet’en Cultural Site
RCMP have no reason to carry assault weapons or even be at the newly constructed smokehouse, say spokespersons.
Airbnb Hosts Are Already Plotting Their Post-Pandemic Comeback
If the short-term rental site rebounds, BC communities want to see better regulation.
In Canada’s Far North, We Ate Only Local For a Year. I Was Transformed
No salt, chocolate, coffee? It was hard, and then my taste buds and body came alive.
The 100-Mile Diet, 15 Years Later
Authors Alisa Smith and J.B. MacKinnon on asparagus season, a more just local food system, and pandemic gardens of hope. First in a week-long series.
Deep Dive
Get to the bottom of something big.
Know the History, Then Take Action
Is it really “better” in multicultural Canada? For those who think Canada is largely immune to anti-Black racism, you have some serious work to do.
Get schooled on the history and experiences of Black people in this country and think about ways you can fight the pernicious racism that hurts them in so many ways. Then make action a priority. It’s beyond time.
Sadie Kuehn Wants You to Know BC’s Black History
The Vancouver School Board’s first Black trustee says our ignorance fuels racism.
‘I Don’t Care if You’re Racist. I Care if You’re Hurting Me’
Desmond Cole’s ‘The Skin We’re In’ tracks one year of injustice against Black Canadians and the white supremacist system that made it possible. A Tyee Q&A.
Imagining Canada ‘Where Black Lives Do Matter’
A Tyee Q&A with Canadian Black feminist author Robyn Maynard.
Will Prosper on How Violence Makes School No Second Home
Tough teen years in Montreal North made his lesson plan urban safety. Last in the Talking Home series.
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A Police Wellness Check Left Me Terrified and Determined to End the Practice
As a Black man, I feared for my life. We need to hold law enforcement accountable before any more lives are lost.
BC COVID-19 Case Tracker
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The Pandemic in BC Now
Click on the tabs below the chart to toggle among five regularly updated snapshots of Total Cases, Daily New Cases, Ever Hospitalized Cases, Total Recovered, and Total Deaths in the five B.C. health regions and the province as a whole.
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The Pandemic Has Revolutionized Your Next Vacation
For better and worse, the travel industry will never be the same. First in a series on remaking tourism.
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‘Canadian Media Is Exhaustingly Predictable,’ but Olamide Olaniyan Has the Tiniest Hope
Tyee’s editorial assistant on what needs to change.
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We Should Consider Changing the Name of British Columbia
Let the discussion, and your suggestions for a new name, begin.
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Canada’s Militarized Police
The sight of U.S. police treating protests as battle zones invites an examination of Canada’s own ramped up militarization of law enforcement. Researchers here found “routine policing represented the majority of SWAT team use.” Such force tends to be visited on “minority groups, those with mental health issues and those exercising democratic rights associated with political expression.” That impulse was on display in B.C. when RCMP in battle gear cleared peaceful Indigenous land defenders opposing pipeline construction. Time to demilitarize police?
How Militarizing Police Sets up Protesters as ‘the Enemy’
A scholar and former officer traces the trend. It’s been building in Canada and the US for years.
Canada Has Race-Based Police Violence Too. We Don’t Know How Much
It’s not just a US problem. Canada needs a national database for police use of force and deaths.
RCMP Planned to Use Snipers in Assault on Wet’suwet’en Protest, Guardian Reports
Newspaper cites planning documents that called for ‘lethal overwatch’ to ensure pipeline built.
From the Archives: When Indigenous Assert Rights, Canada Sends Militarized Police
It’s become routine, but ignores latest law on rights and title, say experts.
Culture
Is It in Us to Build a Post-Pandemic Utopia?
Rutger Bregman says humans are made to pursue kind cooperation. Beware, though, our Hobbesian glitch.
In Canada’s Far North, We Ate Only Local For a Year. I Was Transformed
No salt, chocolate, coffee? It was hard, and then my taste buds and body came alive.
‘Inside Stanley Park, It Doesn’t Feel like a Pandemic Anymore’
Felipe Fittipaldi had just moved to Vancouver when COVID-19 hit. He found refuge within the trees.
Burnt Out from Activism? When to Eddy Out
Need a rest from rough waters? A helpful excerpt from Stephen Legault’s ‘Taking a Break from Saving the World.’
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China study warns of possible new 'pandemic virus' from pigs
(via Reuters)
Alberta bets on infrastructure spending, corporate tax cuts to spur recovery
(via CBC News)
Double-double tracking: How Tim Hortons knows where you sleep, work and vacation
(via Financial Post)
RCMP investigation of ex-Olympic CEO tainted by racism, conflict of interest, say members of Northern B.C. First Nation
(via The Breaker)
Reddit bans r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse as part of a major expansion of its rules
(via The Verge)
The dying mall’s new lease on life: apartments
(via Bloomberg)
The true cost of dollar stores
(via The New Yorker)
Conservatives ask auditor general to probe ‘outsourcing’ of $900M student aid program
(via CBC News)
Chief beaten by police is longtime fighter for Indigenous rights
(via The New York Times)
Toronto’s COVID-19 divide: The city’s northwest corner has been ‘failed by the system’
(via Toronto Star)
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Changing BC’s Name from ‘British Columbia’ Is Not a Bad Idea, but It’s Also Not Enough
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Not a bad idea Crawford — however, that kind of symbolism, like the furor over toppling statues, is pretty much smoke and mirrors unless we’re willing to tackle the real day to day problems of racial and economic inequality based — as those things largely are — upon power relationships endemic to the political and economic associations and structures that actually ‘rule’ the province and the country.