Delegates to the BC Liberal convention in Kelowna were nearly unanimous in defeating a motion to look into changing the party's name. Read more…

This week, The Tyee asked readers how they would solve Vancouver's affordable housing problem. Read more…

El Salvadoran asylum-seeker José Figueroa won't have the chance to speak in his defence before a long-anticipated judicial review hearing on Monday, which will pave the way for him to either stay or be deported. Read more…

The B.C. government is reviving its push to convert Crown forest lands from volume-based (usually known as Timber Supply Areas, or TSAs) to area-based tenures (Tree Farm Licences or TFLs). Area-based tenures give more control to the tenure holder, and less to the Ministry of Forests, essentially creating a system that resembles private management on public land. Read more…

For 55 refugee and immigrant tree planters forced to sleep in a "container" at a work site near Golden, B.C., it's a legal decision nearly four years in the making.

This afternoon, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal is set to release its decision in a case that unearthed allegations of "slave-like" conditions and racial discrimination against Surrey-based Khaira Enterprises, which operated the camp. Read more…

"This half brick was used as a missile by Hindoos on 'Komogata Maru,'" reads the metal plaque affixed to a worn, century-old brick in the Museum of Vancouver's collection. Read more…

It's easy to feel isolated in our work on social change. We're often stuck in our offices or else stuck in our issues -- mine being predominantly the labour movement and progressive electoral politics. Read more…

BC's newspaper industry says it is facing a catastrophic threat as the province gets ready to launch a new environmental program that will shift the cost of recycling from municipal governments to companies that produce the recyclables. Read more…

This week, The Tyee asked readers whether it's time to ease restrictions on the Agricultural Land Reserve.

An overwhelming number of respondents said that was the wrong approach. More than 98 per cent of the 667 votes cast in the poll by Thursday afternoon were "nos." Read more…

The United Nations' special rapporteur on indigenous rights re-issued his call for a national inquiry into Canada's missing and murdered Indigenous women when he released his recent report on May 12.  Read more…

A B.C. First Nation threatening to block commercial fisheries in its traditional waters said it's still waiting for a meaningful discussion with the federal government about a dispute over the geoduck harvest. Read more…

A B.C. teachers' union document leaked to The Tyee Solutions Society alleges the lead negotiator for its employer was "angry, disrespectful, and confrontational" during yesterday's bargaining session with the union. Read more…

Vancouver councillor Geoff Meggs says the City is "between a rock and a hard place" when it comes to affordable housing. Read more…

Six years ago, almost to the month, on the shores of Musqueam Creek, then-Environment Minister Barry Penner made a series of promises as part of the Provincial Water Plan, Living Water Smart. Many of those promises never came to fruition, but the flagship of that plan was to modernize the over 100-year-old B.C. Water Act. Read more…

A First Nation threatening to block all fisheries in a large portion of the Strait of Georgia said it's only doing so as a last resort to fight back against the federal government's monopoly on resource management in the nation's traditional waters. Read more…

Just who will be the 2014 Non-Partisan Association mayoral candidate? At an evening fundraiser dinner this week, billed as the Vancouver party's campaign kick-off, party president Peter Armstrong offered no hints.

"I'm telling you, it's going to be someone you're going to be proud of," he told the crowd of party faithful gathered at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Read more…

"Green is the new gold" was the cliché of the day for the budding cannabis capitalists, marijuana magnates and "hempreneurs" attending the Green Rush Financial Conference in Vancouver this week. Read more…

This week, The Tyee asked readers to test their knowledge of Bill C-13 by labeling the following statement true or false: "If Bill C-13 passes, Rob Ford could soon access your personal online data." Read more…

Stz'uminus Nation plan to block all commercial fisheries in their territorial waters in the Strait of Georgia, risking the safety of commercial geoduck fishermen, said Michelle James, executive director of Underwater Harvesters Association (UHA), a group of 55 licence holders for geoduck and horse clam fisheries in British Columbia. Read more…