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Every week from Friday to Sunday night, you've likely noticed The Tyee with a new look and feel. It's our new culture section, the Weekender. Because we're now devoting weekends to showcasing creative ingenuity in Vancouver and across the region.

The Tyee has long run culture stories, but having a place to showcase them puts a new emphasis on the importance of these pieces in our lives, building a meeting place for a diverse and intergenerational audience.

Our hope is that the Weekender will act as a new space for readers to connect with the creative community, and for creatives to connect with our readers.

You can expect to see an exciting range of work by Tyee staff writers as well as new voices taking the Weekender stage. If you'd like to be a part of it, reach out to us with a pitch.

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These Stories Are Up for Prizes

Tyee journalism is vying for prestigious national prizes this spring. Finalists for Canadian Association of Journalists awards include The Tyee’s Amanda Follett Hosgood for her report on the B.C. government’s violation of its own privacy laws during a pipeline conflict on Wet’suwet’en territory, and former Tyee labour reporter Zak Vescera, for his probe into the high-stakes dispute between BC Ferries and its union.

Finalists for Digital Publishing Awards are Peter Fairley for his coverage of a historic legal breakthrough by two climate activists, and Amy Romer’s report — in a co-production with the Global Reporting Centre — on a Sudanese refugee’s entanglement in a maddening web of shadowy bureaucracy.

And The Tyee is a finalist for the DPA General Excellence Award. All of this is possible because of our Builder members. You can join them here.

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Your Tyee Ripple Effect

We sometimes share how our stories have made impacts.

But if you are a Tyee supporter, you enable positive effects in other ways less visible.

So, just a few recent examples. Tyee northern B.C. reporter Amanda Follett Hosgood participated in a small-group feedback session with B.C.’s information commissioner and shared concerns related to government transparency and accountability. Culture editor Dorothy Woodend contributed to four panels for the Available Light Film Festival in Whitehorse. Reporter Jen St. Denis appeared on the high-profile Paris Marx podcast discussing how Elon Musk’s DOGE austerity campaign is going global.

And over the past several months, many of our journalists have spoken to students in various settings.

Thanks to Tyee Builders for supporting this ripple effect!


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The Next Economy

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.

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Tripping over the rug
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“Sometimes we think that if we don’t talk about things that happened in the past, those events will have no impact on us today. That is far from reality. Rather, past events and experiences have a way of impacting us, even when we don’t want to think about them. I share these wise words a therapist once said to me when trying to avoid discussing an uncomfortable issue. ‘Sweep it under the rug, and you are bound to trip over it.’


For some, that might be the most difficult part of truth and reconciliation. While it can be difficult to hear the stories, it can be even harder to realize that those experiences of mistreatment and discrimination made easier paths for others, especially if those others are us.”

William

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