Where Does Vancouver’s Urban Forest Need to Grow Next?
The city strategy faces a tricky challenge: inspiring the growth of trees on private land.
I Want to Tell You How This Feels
COVID-19 is an emergency. So is what killed my son and thousands of others. But no one sends in the military.
In Vancouver’s SROs, Tenants Look Out for Each Other During the Pandemic
The SRO Collaborative says identifying and supporting leaders in each building has worked well in helping residents.
Tom Berger’s Cases Revealed His Moral Character
Revisiting ‘One Man’s Justice,’ the memoir of fighting for the vulnerable written by the renowned BC jurist two decades before his passing.
Higher Ed Is Indigenizing. But Are Schools Responsible for Vetting Identities?
Verifying claims of Indigeneity is a complicated undertaking that intersects place, race and identity, say four academics.
Pausing AstraZeneca Could Cause More Deaths. And More New COVID Science
The latest roundup of pandemic findings gathered by The Tyee.
Poly Styrene Doc Pays Tribute to the Person Behind the Persona
The punk rock icon’s story feels eerily familiar in a modern era of celebrity culture backlash. Showing soon at DOXA.
Seed the North: Fighting Climate Change, One Sprout at a Time
Could an innovative approach to reforestation take root in BC?
Old-Growth Forest Logging Approvals Are Soaring in BC
Companies are rushing to get permits before protection comes for critical areas, advocates say.
DOXA Opener Takes the Gig Economy to Task
The gap between the potential and the reality of ‘platform’ work is disturbingly wide, argues filmmaker Shannon Walsh.
A Coronavirus Hell of Kenney’s Own Making
The COVID-19 devil runs free, yet again, in Alberta and the premier has no excuse.
‘Someone Like Me’ Documents a Gay Asylum Seeker’s Struggle for Freedom and Survival
Layered film by Vancouver creators is as much a portrait of queer life in Canada as it is about newcomers.
Canada’s Green Party Leader Wants a New Politics of ‘Shared Credit’
Annamie Paul on policy ideas born of pandemic, what she urged Trudeau, ‘senocide’ and more. A Tyee interview.
When a New Drug Is Costly, Not Approved and Possibly Life Changing
A trial cystic fibrosis treatment could offer a ‘new normal’ for people like Lilia Zaharieva. But they risk hopes dashed.
‘Mother Trees’ Are Real. They Model Sharing and Generosity
Suzanne Simard’s book on forest complexity is as sturdy, impressive and beautiful as a big red cedar.
Inside Strathcona Park's 24-Hour Overdose Prevention Site
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BC Finally Unveils Travel Ban Enforcement Details
Experts say confusion over pop-up vaccine clinics, travel rules risk undermining public confidence.
Why the Hold Up on Paid Sick Days? It’s about Power
We’re a year into the pandemic. Here’s who’s blocking worker support so clearly needed.
The Translator Kids
If family members don’t know English, how do you keep them safe and informed in a pandemic?
BC’s Minimum Wage Is Rising, but Farm Worker Pay Is Still Unresolved
The government has studied agriculture piece rates since 2018 but has yet to make changes.
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The Translator Kids
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Twin Pipeline Resistance Holds Strong
It’s been over a year since the action against the Coastal GasLink pipeline in Wet’suwet’en territory. Construction on CGL continues.
Solidarity protests at the B.C. legislature raised awareness yet official investigations into the RCMP response remain in limbo. We followed the story back a decade.
Meanwhile the Supreme Court decision to continue TransMountain hasn’t stopped Indigenous resistance. In recent months Indigenous land defenders have occupied building entrances and held city streets.
The Tyee has been following these years-long battles as TMX risks loom, government promises capsize and First Nations work together against CGL.
Deep dive with us to revisit the past and follow this fight to the future. We have our eye on what's happening next.
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For BC’s Two Pipeline Fights, It’s Spring Forward
TMX and Coastal GasLink face resurging opposition across the province as Trudeau invites Biden to talk climate change.
‘We Have to Stand Together’: A Tale of Two Nations
The Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan history of cooperation continues with the Coastal GasLink pipeline battle.
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When a New Drug Is Costly, Not Approved and Possibly Life Changing
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Schools Through the Pandemic
We've followed concerns of parents and teachers since schools were first shuttered and the initial return to classrooms.
Many have felt their needs are not being accommodated, and parent-teacher networks have arisen to follow outbreaks in schools. Parents have highlighted the difficulties of remote learning for their families, and some have faced tough choices about sending their kids back to school.
Educators have wondered how to adapt their teaching to a pandemic environment, from remote learning to self-directed education to the curriculum. Kids' long-term mental health is a growing concern.
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Teachers Are COVID Heroes. It’s Time We Listened to Them
Research shows the toll taken as they cope with changing rules, online learning and fears for students — and themselves.
Beyond Home School: Is a Pandemic the Time to Start Unschooling?
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On Facebook, Parents Share Doubts and Data about COVID-19 in Schools
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Open Schools Help Vulnerable Students and Families. But at What Cost?
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A slaughterhouse outbreak claimed 3 lives. Then, it happened again
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'Jane Doe' in California identified as Cree woman missing since 1980s
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Biden establishes pro-union task force chaired by Harris
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Ottawa launches another external review into sexual misconduct in the military
(via CBC)
Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside ‘approaching herd immunity’ as vaccine campaign enters 2nd phase
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No More Band-Aids For the Poisoned Drug Crisis
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Decisiveness, one of the definitive features of reaching a critical point along a path, has been mostly tokenism when it comes to the overdose emergency.
Weighing the tragic against the politic have all decided to put Band-Aids on a major public health emergency.
We need to turn onto a new road: treat opioid addiction with prescribed opioids.