The candidate who promised a return to the "grassroots organizing and mobilization" necessary to revive the Canadian labour movement has been chosen as its new leader. Read more…

Last week, The Tyee asked readers whether Trinity Western University should be allowed to grant law degrees. The question attracted 1,342 respondents and generated 918 comments, far more than other recent Tyee polls. Read more…

The National Energy Board has denied a motion presented by economist Robyn Allan to restore the oral cross-examination of witnesses for the regulator's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion hearing. Read more…

A much-anticipated environmental review of the long-planned Site C dam will be released tomorrow. Read more…

Computers in British Columbia schools using the government's internet service were blocked from visiting the NoEnbridge.ca website until the matter was raised with the ministry responsible. Read more…

The Tyee is pleased to sponsor SPUR, Canada's first national festival of politics, art, and ideas. The five-city festival wraps up in Vancouver May 22 to 25, after touching down in Winnipeg, Toronto, Calgary, and Ottawa. Read more…

A hearing scheduled to take place Monday morning was intended to put to rest questions of whether George Wolsey lacks access to income and property and is unable to pay back the $18,000 he owes to his former tenants. But this morning, the notorious former landlord and pharmacist failed to appear in court. Read more…

Professors at the University of Victoria are demanding the school's administration freeze all new investment in fossil fuels and initiate a three-year divestment plan. Read more…

In case we needed more evidence, the fifth round of climate science assessments from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has reaffirmed, again, that burning fossil fuels is warming the planet. But their latest release, focused on solutions, shows that solving the climate conundrum is also eminently affordable: the cost to transition the globe off of fossil fuels to cleaner sources energy is just 0.06 per cent of global growth a year. Read more…

Chief negotiator for the BC Public School Employers’ Association says billing the teachers union for health benefit premiums for June is necessary to prevent another lengthy teachers strike like that of 2011/12. Read more…

The BC Public School Employers' Association made good on a promise to put counter pressure on the teachers' union today by announcing a plan to make the union cover teacher health and welfare benefits for June unless a contract is signed by June 30. Read more…

B.C.'s Conflict of Interest Commissioner told Premier Christy Clark's chief-of-staff in a letter that he has no jurisdiction to investigate her over a 2007 contract with a subsidiary of RCI Capital Group.

But Paul Fraser omitted a key fact about Clark's political career that could have allowed him to launch such a probe. Read more…

Vancouver's Melissa Croda works full-time as an inventory supervisor at a Richmond linen store, but she and her family now must move out of the city to make ends meet. Read more…

More B.C. universities' faculty members moved to join trade unions this week, with events at both Simon Fraser and the University of Northern British Columbia. Read more…

Amid disappointing numbers for this year's Metro Vancouver homeless count, the Coalition of Progressive Electors is proposing a new set of solutions, starting with the creation of a city-run housing agency. Read more…

IntegrityBC has reviewed 660 applications to the Agricultural Land Commission filed in the Kootenay district, following comments from Bill Bennett, minister responsible for the core review, that the proposed changes to the Agricultural Land Reserve are the result of listening to his constituents.

"Based on Bennett's claims one would imagine that application after application was routinely coming back from the ALC stamped 'rejected,'" said IntegrityBC executive director Dermod Travis. "And that's far from the case." Read more…

President of the B.C. teachers' union Jim Iker said if the BC Public School Employers' Association wants to see big changes to proposals at the teacher bargaining table, it can start by removing the requirement for a 10-year contract. Read more…

The BC Public School Employers' Association says it's changed its teacher wage proposals, but the teachers' union proposal of a 13.5 per cent wage proposal actually equals a 19.2 per cent increase over three years. Read more…

The Ontario journalist countersuing John Furlong for defamation wants the former Vancouver Olympics CEO to reveal his sources and show what steps he took to confirm allegedly defamatory statements he made against her. Read more…

The Calgary proponent of the Keystone XL pipeline, which has spent millions telling North Americans that "pipelines work," continues to break federal pipeline laws, says the national regulator. Read more…