The Tyee's Summer Reads
Our seasonal staff picks for a sunny (cross your fingers) BC summer. Suggest your own!
BC’s Back to School Plan Will Add $25.6 Million to Support Students
The one-time cash influx is for mental health and other student help. Critics say it might not be enough.
‘World’s Greatest Dad’? The Definition Is Evolving
Fathers need to be more than mother’s helpers on the home front. Let’s support that.
Indigenous Leaders Say BC Is Failing on Forestry and Reconciliation
The First Nations Forest Strategy offers a clear path forward, but action is too slow, conference told.
BC’s Axed Climate Action Fund Worries Municipalities
Government promises replacement for program that helped towns and cities reduce emissions.
A Brief and Brutal History of Canadian Colonialism
Despite the painful history, there’s always been Indigenous resistance. Is settler society finally waking up?
Annamie Paul Comes out Swinging
The embattled federal Green leader assails Trudeau and says allegations by ‘small group’ of party execs are racist and sexist.
It’s Time to Pass the Baton
Wealthy countries have viewed vaccination as a race, when it’s best seen as a relay.
Please Advise! Hogtie the Stampede?
Wondering how Alberta will lasso the virus by riding a lottery to its rodeo? Gitty up Dr. Steve!
‘Heartbreaking’ Report Condemns Abuse of Solitary Confinement in Youth Jails
BC ombudsperson says long stays damage mental health and reinforce trauma. Indigenous females are being hurt the most.
Annamie Paul and Elizabeth May Had a Very Rough Meeting
The besieged Green leader demanded full support from her predecessor or else, according to sources.
Sopping Wet and Nowhere to Go
Vancouver is trying to prevent permanent encampments by forcing people to pack up every morning, rain or shine.
Ten Jobs for Getting to Work on a Zero Emissions Future
A climate-fixing economy will mean new livelihoods like these in BC and across Cascadia.
This Canada Day, the Best Way to Celebrate Is to Cancel It
This nation continues to inflict harm on Indigenous people. Fireworks won’t change that.
Aussie Coal Mines Pose Big Threat to Southern Alberta’s Water: Study
New scientific research commissioned by local landowners warns of devastating pollution and habitat destruction.
Lotto Vaxx Bonanza! Kenney’s Latest Pandemic Brainstorm
Science and appeals to the common good aren’t working. So Alberta’s top libertarian turns carnival barker.
Who Breaks Pandemic Rules Most? Bored Conservatives. And More Science News
The latest roundup of COVID findings in research journals gathered by Hakai Magazine.
What Thomas Piketty’s New Data Tells Us about the Canadian Left
He famously dissected elite wealth. Now the French economist tracks post-war politics and rising education, finding surprises.
‘Fictional Father’: A Comic Son’s Homage
Joe Ollmann’s new graphic novel takes penetrating aim at the patriarchal goofs of old-time comic strips.
Tears, Anger, Regret: Inside the Green Implosion
Exclusive: Remaining Green MPs Elizabeth May and Paul Manly entreat Jenica Atwin to return to the fold.
Editor's Pick
This story is making waves.
A Time to Grieve. Then Action
Indigenous leaders respond to Kamloops discovery with demands for change, starting with implementing the TRC’s Calls to Action.
Deep Dive
Get to the bottom of something big.
Bringing Reconciliation to Tragic Attention
The uncovering of 215 children in an unmarked grave in Kamloops has shaken the country. And the country needs to be shaken.
We know the harrowing scars of these institutions. How the deep disregard of Indigenous people through colonialism created a genocide. How the settlers that spoke up against the status quo were not heeded.
Indigenous communities continue to live the pain but still manage to find hope. Powerful art and books evoke the horror, and Elders’ Oral Histories carry the weight.
The path towards reconciliation and healing is long. Follow us into our dark history to see its reality in the present.
To Break Residential Schools' Dark Legacy, Understand Why
Know the roots of Canada's incarceration of native children and see why effects linger.
There Is Truth Here: The Power of Art from Residential Schools on Display
Museum of Vancouver exhibition pays tribute to the resiliency and abilities of students.
Still Surviving: 'It's Always on the Edge of Things'
For residential school survivors, quiet power in daily tasks.
Why Canada and Genocide Belong in the Same Sentence
Was there a pre-meditated plan to cause Indigenous people such suffering? Undeniably.
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‘The Story of a National Crime’
A century ago, Dr. Peter Bryce demonstrated that residential schools were designed to kill. Canada’s government ignored him.
Deep Dive
Get to the bottom of something big.
BC’s Receding Rivers of Ice
There are more than 16,000 glaciers in British Columbia. Most of them will be gone in several decades, researchers predict.
What will it mean that so much ice is vanishing from the province’s peaks? Glaciologists are learning using a range of technologies. The loss will threaten ocean ecosystems far below, affecting plankton, salmon, bears, people.
A recent massive landslide and flood at Bute Inlet demonstrates the power unleashed when melting glaciers dislodge rock and ice.
A special Tyee series explores the Big Melt and geoengineering ideas for offsetting impacts.
The Big Melt
In mere decades, many of BC’s 16,000 glaciers will be gone. That will change life on our coast, from plankton to people. First in a series.
How The Big Melt Will Change Life for People and Nature
As BC’s coastal mountain glaciers recede the effects alter ecosystems. Can human engineering begin to compensate? Second in a series.
The Bute Inlet Disaster: How Dying Glaciers Can Unleash Devastation
The Big Melt is no slow drip. It can trigger sudden landslides and tsunamis. Last in a series.
Fossil Fuels Drive Rapid Glacier Loss across Western Canada, Study Finds
Melting offers a 'big signal' about the climate, expert says.
Editor's Pick
This story is making waves.
Ending Horgan’s War Against Old Growth
I’ve fought to save forests for 40 years. It’s time for real change.
Culture
The Tyee's Summer Reads
Our seasonal staff picks for a sunny (cross your fingers) BC summer. Suggest your own!
What Thomas Piketty’s New Data Tells Us about the Canadian Left
He famously dissected elite wealth. Now the French economist tracks post-war politics and rising education, finding surprises.
‘Fictional Father’: A Comic Son’s Homage
Joe Ollmann’s new graphic novel takes penetrating aim at the patriarchal goofs of old-time comic strips.
What’s Your Object of Affection? The Tyee Wants to Know
You’re invited! That one trusty item that endures and serves you so well. Draw or describe it and we’ll share it here.
Reported Elsewhere
Today's links curated for you.
'I have never felt safe': Nunavut MP accuses parliamentary security of racial profiling in farewell speech
(via CTV News)
99% of letters oppose rezoning for proposed school and social housing in Coal Harbour
(via CBC News)
Five lives lost: Workers at CN raise safety alarm after string of rail deaths
(via CTV News)
Union of BC Indian Chiefs to intervene in case against Vancouver police for handcuffing Indigenous pair
(via CBC)
Indigenous man's BC human rights complaint gains support
(via News 1130)
Why CBC is turning off Facebook comments on news posts for a month
(via CBC)
COVID-19 outbreak infects 138 children in remote Northern Ontario First Nation
(via the Globe and Mail)
Ontario pledging $10M to identify and commemorate residential school burial sites
(via CBC News)
Protesters prevent Israeli container ship from docking in BC port
(via CBC News)
What can or can’t fully vaccinated Canadians do? Feds say ‘it’s not a one-size-fits-all’
(via Global News)
Deep Dive
Get to the bottom of something big.
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.
Deep dive to learn more from parents, teachers, students and health and education experts.
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?
The self-directed education style where kids lead fits the moment, say some. What’s your experience? Please share.
On Facebook, Parents Share Doubts and Data about COVID-19 in Schools
Not satisfied with info from authorities, an online community is crowdsourcing its own.
Open Schools Help Vulnerable Students and Families. But at What Cost?
Parents and educators accept schools’ role in reducing inequality. But they’re still wary of reopening plans.
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We Need a Paradigm Shift
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‘Normal’ is what we make it, not what we are told by others — especially those who seek to profit from us.
As long as the illusion persists that our current ways of living can be sustained, we will travel towards a collapse which can neither be reversed nor managed in a relatively non-catastrophic way.
It is going to take a massive paradigm shift for us to weather the impending energy cliff and we are quickly losing time to prepare.