‘Gaslighting, Misogyny and Marginalization’
Jody Wilson-Raybould on Trudeau’s behaviour, strategic voting, Canada’s ‘unfinished business’ and more. A Tyee interview.
Please Advise! Who Tore the Cover off the Ball?
The candidates are all sliding home. Dr. Steve rates their play and predicts a winner.
Wilkinson Defends the Liberal Climate Record: ‘We’ve Changed the Trajectory’
Emissions have not dropped under their governance. Still, the North Van candidate insists the plan is working.
Resign, Kenney, Resign
A political arsonist who sets his provincial house on fire three times is not fit to hold public office.
The Young and the Zestless
Young people are increasingly skeptical of our political system. Here’s how to restore our trust.
Sorry, Not Sorry! Jason Kenney’s COVID-19 Disaster
As crisis mounts, Alberta’s premier refuses to accept responsibility for reopening blunders.
Why the Greens’ Housing Platform Is the Best
They’re the only party who, instead of fuelling costs, prioritizes non-market housing.
Where They Stand: The Parties on Indigenous Child Welfare
It’s been five years since a tribunal ruled that Canada discriminates against First Nations kids. Advocates still await change.
Spending $50 to Collect $5. Canada’s Absurd Access to Information Rules
None of the leading parties offer much hope for overdue reform of a broken system.
Anjali Appadurai’s Campaign for a New Politics
Like many NDP candidates she’s shifting from activism to seeking office. Why run for Vancouver Granville? ‘Something big needs to happen.’
Where They Stand: The Parties on Animal Welfare
Their platforms all tackle animal cruelty. Canada’s first federal election debate on the issue added texture.
BC Promises Change as COVID-19 Surges in the North
Vaccination rates lag more than 10 per cent behind provincial average while cases soar in some communities.
Tax the Rich, and Don’t Be Shy About It
Turn it up slightly higher than what parties currently propose, and we could raise enough to achieve huge things.
The Parties’ Shared Failure on Long-Term Care
The pandemic has highlighted deep problems in seniors’ care. Our politicians chose to ignore them.
Canada’s Toothless Watchdogs
Who’ll let the watchdogs out? Who? Who? Who? Who?
Which Parties Have the Big Ideas This Election? Watch This Video
We face vast challenges. Here are the 10 most sweeping responses being promised.
Little Mountain: Big Money for a Developer, Big Questions for BC Liberals
A public inquiry is needed to determine why the province gave so much, say an advocate and a developer. David Eby says no.
Science Is Messy, Iterative and Amazing. And More Pandemic Lessons
The final roundup of COVID-19 findings gathered by The Tyee.
A Brief History of BC’s Housing Dumpster Fire
The federal government got us into this mess. Here's how it can get us out.
BC Orders Health-Care Workers to Be Vaccinated
As COVID-19 cases rise, the province introduces new measures to curb the spread.
Editor's Pick
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Anjali Appadurai’s Campaign for a New Politics
Like many NDP candidates she’s shifting from activism to seeking office. Why run for Vancouver Granville? ‘Something big needs to happen.’
Deep Dive
Get to the bottom of something big.
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.
Editor's Pick
This story is making waves.
Which Parties Have the Big Ideas This Election? Watch This Video
We face vast challenges. Here are the 10 most sweeping responses being promised.
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What we're up to. How to be involved.
One Year: A Reporter Reflects on Her Community Beat
A year ago, Jen St. Denis signed on to be our reporter for Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
Our aim was to cover issues important to the people who live there, bringing light to the challenges they face and showcasing the area’s oft-overlooked vitality.
St. Denis’s reporting has built trust and fostered change. It's helped stop evictions, highlighted unsafe living conditions and put pressure on city staff to treat residents humanely.
The Tyee believes in strengthening our relationship with communities, and we couldn’t have done that in the DTES without the support of our Tyee Builders. Join us today.
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Join Tyee’s Dorothy Woodend and British Novelist Max Porter in Conversation
In partnership with VPL, this online event celebrates the launch of Porter’s new work, ‘The Death of Francis Bacon.’
Tyee Scoops Up Four Webster Award Nominations in 2021
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The Run Is Back. Join Us
The most important issues of the federal election from our award-winning newsletter.
Editor's Pick
This story is making waves.
In Northern BC, Women Candidates Are Challenging the Status Quo
From Indigenous rights to poverty and health care, these political hopefuls bring lived experience to tough issues.
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.
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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.
Squamish for Sale
Thomasina Pidgeon’s new photography exhibit documents 20 years of development in the outdoor sports ‘mecca.’
The Road Not Travelled after 9/11
ARTIFACT: Did we miss a chance to change our fate after the jarring attacks of 20 years ago?
JB MacKinnon Is a Book Person
The author of 'The Day the World Stops Shopping' rejects breezy takeaways. So what’s he reading?
Reported Elsewhere
Today's links curated for you.
Alberta's 'open for summer' plan set trajectory of COVID's 4th wave, Hinshaw now says
(via CBC)
First Nation receiving money to search old Nanaimo Indian Hospital grounds
(via Parksville Qualicum Beach News)
There’s no public database of COVID-19 exposures at UBC. One student filled the gap
(via the Ubyssey)
At Fairy Creek, a war in the woods as police seek more power to clear blockades
(via the Globe and Mail)
Children are experiencing widespread climate anxiety, anger: study
(via Gizmodo)
COVID-19 and the new merchants of doubt
(via the BMJ)
Wilson-Raybould says Trudeau should let RCMP probe possible obstruction of justice in SNC-Lavalin affair
(via the Globe and Mail)
New white African Nova Scotian Affairs minister ready to be 'a voice' for Black community
(via CBC)
Addiction specialists accused of 'massive conflict of interest' for ties to drug-testing industry
(via CBC)
Former People's Party of Canada riding president charged after gravel thrown at Trudeau
(via CBC)
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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.