Love and Grief: Smithers Mural Honours Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
‘They included us. They got feedback on what we wanted, and that’s what we need more of.’
Phase Out Natural Gas? A Big No from Many Cities
Across Cascadia, even ‘green’ municipalities are fighting a key step in lowering emissions.
We’re Not Short of Workers. We Have Too Many Crappy Jobs
Restaurants are struggling to find staff. Mostly, that’s because they’re bad places to work.
Vancouver Binners Bumped from Victory Square for Netflix Movie, Say Event Organizers
Project staff call for a conversation about equitable use of public space in the Downtown Eastside.
Parents and Teachers Demand Transparency on COVID-19 in Schools
Dr. Bonnie Henry has said notifications will improve, but some fear the information won’t be enough.
BC Commits to Paid Sick Leave by Jan. 1, But Details Still to Come
Government wants to hear from public, workers and employers on eligibility and number of paid days.
On Lasqueti Island, a Wild and Woolly Issue Has Divided Residents
Of all the fractious debates plaguing communities today, here it’s feral sheep. Can islanders reach a compromise?
Vancouver Ordered Repairs to a Dangerous SRO Two Years Ago. They’re Still Not Done
Council voted Wednesday to seek a court injunction to force owners to fix safety issues at the Regal Hotel.
RCMP Arrest Tree-sitter Protesting Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion
Bill Winder, a retiree, said it was worth it, noting the climate crisis has reached ‘code red.’
How Seriously Should We Take the People’s Party of Canada?
It’s tempting to ignore Bernier and his followers as deluded trolls. It’s also dangerous.
Election as Farewell Tour
Why Trudeau, O’Toole, Singh and Paul all face exits from their jobs before the next national contest.
Right Back to Where We Started From
A bloody fight, with not much changed. Where do we go from here?
COVID Surge in BC’s North Overwhelms Hospitals
Patients are being flown to ICU beds outside the region as vaccinations lag.
Books Are Empathy Machines, Says Richard Powers
We talk to the Pulitzer winner about his destabilizing, hopeful new novel, ‘Bewilderment.’
Please Advise! So that Election... Why?
It was a wholly futile exercise reminiscent of other super-not-great battles, reflects Doc Steve.
Putting Down Roots in Vancouver’s Backyard Gardens
Immigrants receive less attention for ‘greening’ the city, but their efforts feed families and help plants adapt.
SFU Passes Motion to Hire at Least 15 Black Faculty
Students ‘brought their brilliance’ to force change and make the university more inclusive, prof says.
Right Extremism, Green Collapse and the Avi Lewis Experiment
Six election lessons show the vote results have big implications, even if Parliament hasn’t changed.
Possible Winner in Trudeau’s Status-Quo Result? BC MPs
Candidates from the province are positioned to have influence in a minority government.
The Tyee Wins the Bill Good Award for ‘Significant Contribution to Journalism’
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Putting Down Roots in Vancouver’s Backyard Gardens
Immigrants receive less attention for ‘greening’ the city, but their efforts feed families and help plants adapt.
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DanceHouse Launches New Season with Celebrated Work by Brazil’s Deborah Colker
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Tyee Scoops Up Four Webster Award Nominations in 2021
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How Seriously Should We Take the People’s Party of Canada?
It’s tempting to ignore Bernier and his followers as deluded trolls. It’s also dangerous.
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Bringing Reconciliation to Tragic Attention
The uncovering of unmarked graves from former residential schools continues to shake 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.
‘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.
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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On Lasqueti Island, a Wild and Woolly Issue Has Divided Residents
Of all the fractious debates plaguing communities today, here it’s feral sheep. Can islanders reach a compromise?
Culture
Love and Grief: Smithers Mural Honours Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
‘They included us. They got feedback on what we wanted, and that’s what we need more of.’
Books Are Empathy Machines, Says Richard Powers
We talk to the Pulitzer winner about his destabilizing, hopeful new novel, ‘Bewilderment.’
After Cod, Shrimp. After Shrimp? Mud
‘The Ocean’s Whistleblower’ tells the fascinating story of biologist Daniel Pauly’s life and work to save the world from overfishing.
Fight on, Witches. United Strength Is Electrifying
A new film on an unstoppable Japanese women’s volleyball team is an antidote to so much these days.
Deep Dive
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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.
Reported Elsewhere
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Major triaging has begun in Alberta hospitals, emergency doctor says
(via the Edmonton Journal)
Twitter restricted Bernier's account for 12 hours after he urged followers to 'play dirty' with journalists
(via CBC)
No, vaccinated people are not 'just as likely’ to spread the coronavirus as unvaccinated people
(via the Atlantic)
The Vanished: 25 people in Yakima County on updated list of missing Indigenous persons
(via the Yakima Herald)
COVID cases surge in Victoria temporary housing — but residents and staff say they have only ‘whispers and rumours’ for information
(via the Capital Daily)
Canada's suicide rate fell during first year of pandemic
(via Barrie 360)
BC nurses in turmoil as province pushes mandatory COVID-19 vaccination for health care workers
(via the Globe and Mail)
Secrecy over BC's true number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients
(via CTV News)
Vancouver renter questions landlord's 'duplicitous' new payment scheme
(via CBC)
Everyone's talking about Gabby Petito. But they're having the wrong conversation, experts say
(via USA Today)
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Learning Beyond the Language We Know
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It’s telling that we have millions to spend to get people from elsewhere to learn the local colonists' language, but very little to teach Canadians the languages that belong to the land…
Many people seem capable of learning music notation, math symbols and multiple languages... we can manage to learn what an upside down "7" is supposed to sound like.