Roll Up Your Sleeve for a Fourth Vaccine Dose?
Experts say a robust second booster campaign is key to weathering future waves of the virus.
Ancient Fire Prevention Practices, Reignited
First Nations want authority to manage wildfire risks, including the right to carry out controlled burns.
‘Supportive Housing’ Is No Solution to Homelessness
Five myths that put people at deadly risk, offered by an organizer of the unhoused in Maple Ridge.
CONTEST: Win Tickets to the Museum of Anthropology’s Latest Exhibit
One Tyee reader will receive four passes to ‘Xicanx: Dreamers and Changemakers,’ plus a museum shop gift certificate.
How Bruce Mau Turned Design, and the World, On Its Head
‘The present day is the best time in human history to be alive and working,’ the design visionary declares.
Should We Get Rid of Tipping?
Gratuities increasingly shape our lives as workers and customers. Is that what we want?
DFO Suppresses Science and Pushes Salmon Farms, Critics Tell MPs
The federal fisheries department should be stripped of its role in promoting aquaculture, urges MP Elizabeth May.
How the Shipping Industry Sails Through Legal Loopholes
Inside the murky world of dodges that let firms harm workers and the environment.
Growing Up Queer and Evangelical in Victoria, BC
The city's weird underbelly shines in Jessica Campbell’s new graphic novel.
Prescriptions for Our Housing Crisis
What happens when we treat housing precarity as a health issue, and a moral one too?
Chinatown Needs Senior Housing. What’s In the Way?
For Chau Luen Society, the barriers literally grow out of a previous victory for the neighbourhood. The latest in Hot, Hot Housing.
Province Fighting Climate Change by Fertilizing Forests with Urea, by Helicopter
Critics call it greenwashing. Supporters say it’s an investment in public resources.
Please Advise! Am I a Crypto Wimp?
Movie actors, pro athletes and one politician bro all say buy Bitcoin. Should I?
‘Let's Not Be the Ones Dividing. Lead Instead,’ Says Stephanie Cadieux
After 13 years in BC politics, ex-minister looks at struggles, successes and personal attacks.
Abortion. Bitcoin. Political Orphans. That Was Some Debate
Highlights from Wednesday’s first official federal Conservative leadership joust.
The Man Behind Alberta’s Pull Away from Harm Reduction
As deaths mount, Marshall Smith has driven the province’s focus on abstinence over safer drug supplies.
Coastal GasLink Fined Again for Environmental Damage
$170,100 penalty levied for allowing watershed damage and infringing on Indigenous rights.
Hospitals Shouldn’t Be a Place to Get COVID
BC is failing to take steps that could keep patients and health-care workers safer.
Winters Hotel Fire: Resident Dennis Guay Is Missing
Vancouver police say the man was reported missing on April 26, 15 days after the SRO fire killed at least two people.
Broadway Corridor Plan: Seven Needed Amendments
The proposed massive changes to Vancouver ignore basics for affordability and livability. Council, take note.
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Chinatown Needs Senior Housing. What’s In the Way?
For Chau Luen Society, the barriers literally grow out of a previous victory for the neighbourhood. The latest in Hot, Hot Housing.
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Awards Season in Journalism
It’s the time for annual awards in news media, and The Tyee has no shortage of nominations: two for the National Magazine Awards, eight for the Digital Publishing Awards, three for the Canadian Association of Journalists Awards and one for general excellence from the Canadian Journalism Foundation.
DPA nominations include a feature on early Chinese racism in Canada, personal essays on finding meaning in the cold winter months and more. A special report on Indigenous racism in health care and local impacts of B.C.’s devastating wildfires received nominations from the CJAs.
Stay tuned to see who brings home the fish! The awards shows air from May 28 to June 7.
And check this out...
CONTEST: Win Tickets to the Museum of Anthropology’s Latest Exhibit
One Tyee reader will receive four passes to ‘Xicanx: Dreamers and Changemakers,’ plus a museum shop gift certificate.
Ten Award Nominations for Tyee Journalists
Finalists are named for Canada’s prestigious National Magazine Awards and Digital Publishing Awards.
Finalists Announced for the 2022 Land Awards
BC leaders in sustainable, equitable and socially just land use and real estate will be honoured June 9.
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The Man Behind Alberta’s Pull Away from Harm Reduction
As deaths mount, Marshall Smith has driven the province’s focus on abstinence over safer drug supplies.
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African Mine Disaster Turns Spotlight on Canadian Mining Firms
Eight miners are trapped in a mine owned by a Vancouver-based company. Advocates want more accountability.
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Roll Up Your Sleeve for a Fourth Vaccine Dose?
Experts say a robust second booster campaign is key to weathering future waves of the virus.
Should We Get Rid of Tipping?
Gratuities increasingly shape our lives as workers and customers. Is that what we want?
DFO Suppresses Science and Pushes Salmon Farms, Critics Tell MPs
The federal fisheries department should be stripped of its role in promoting aquaculture, urges MP Elizabeth May.
Please Advise! Am I a Crypto Wimp?
Movie actors, pro athletes and one politician bro all say buy Bitcoin. Should I?
Reported Elsewhere
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What’s the real crime? Metro Vancouver make-believe crisis about public safety threats
(via the Vancouver Sun)
Drug policy group condemns psychedelic research association for response to BC sex assault claims
(via CBC)
What the Kids in the Hall taught me about feminism
(via Slate)
Upbeat ad filmed in fire-ravaged Lytton, BC, called 'a slap in the face' to residents
(via CBC)
Pierre Poilievre is too big a risk to lead the Conservatives
(via the National Post)
Button pushers: the artists making music from mushrooms
(via the Guardian)
RCMP commissioner denies accusation Mounties used 'kid gloves' with Freedom Convoy protesters
(via CBC)
The scientists fighting for parasite conservation
(via Scientific American)
RCMP were planning raids while in talks with Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs about meeting
(via the Narwhal)
Longest hotel strike in BC history ends with vote in favour of new agreement
(via CBC)
Culture
How Bruce Mau Turned Design, and the World, On Its Head
‘The present day is the best time in human history to be alive and working,’ the design visionary declares.
Growing Up Queer and Evangelical in Victoria, BC
The city's weird underbelly shines in Jessica Campbell’s new graphic novel.
Charlie’s Pet Food Bank Cares for Pets in the Downtown Eastside
A unique program helps those with low incomes take care of their furry friends.
Hey Sisters, We’re Going Backwards
Roe v. Wade in danger, watching ‘Still Working 9 to 5’ is like déjà what the effing hell?
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Doing the Math on Carbon Capture
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Subsidizing carbon capture, cleanup and reclamation, and buying pipelines — costing taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars — undermines carbon pricing.
Carbon pricing is supposed to make fossil fuel production more expensive and less profitable. Subsidies for carbon capture to reduce oil and gas industry emissions violate the polluter-pay principle.