Every week from Friday to Sunday night, The Tyee has a fresh look and feel. It’s the Weekender, our weekend culture section for the arts, life and ideas.

It’s a lively space for readers to connect with the creative community, and for creatives to connect with our readers. If you know someone using their creativity as a force for good, we’d love to know. We’re proud to showcase people across the region using their creativity as a force for good in the Weekender’s monthly Creative Forces series, and we welcome nominations from readers.

If you'd like to write for the Weekender, reach out to us with a pitch.

B.C.’s health-care system faces big challenges, no question. So it’s important to ask what is working, including small changes that can make a big difference in patients’ lives. Tyee health reporter Michelle Gamage has reported on an Indigenous doctor helping to bring heart health care to remote communities, a woman working to break down barriers to health care for Black seniors, a reproductive justice win in B.C.’s “wildly successful” free contraceptives program, and the mail-in test now screening for risk of cervical cancer.

This health coverage is made possible in part by the Local Journalism Initiative and supported by our Builder members. You can join them here.

From Alaska to California, people are pouring their smarts and hearts into successful enterprises that are low carbon and locally rooted. They’re employing and training, producing and sustaining.

So The Tyee created a whole new section to tell their stories and share best practices for a healthy bioregion. We call it What Works. It’s where you’ll find regular reports on the business of creating what works for a better future.

Interested in this project? Read more about What Works or contact us to be involved.