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Independent journalism thrives when readers choose to support it

Nearly every week, I see newspapers and magazines that seemed fine suddenly going out of business. Or a private equity fund buying up a chain of newspapers that had been serving communities for decades and stripping them for parts. And now, the thing that’s making all publishers wring their hands is AI – publishers are seeing massive drops to their web visits as AI scrapes their content and delivers it up to people in chatbots, with the journalists who did the original work not even credited with the work.

Despite this, I have hope for journalism because of what’s happening at The Tyee.

Years ago, we made a strategic bet that support from our readers was going to drive our whole future. And thankfully, that is working for us.

Over the past decade, we’ve more than doubled our journalism team and are publishing more work than ever. More people read The Tyee now than at any point in our 23-year history.

This is only possible because we regularly ask our readers to sign up as paying Tyee Builder members. Roughly half of our entire budget is made up of contributions from over 10,000 readers.

We’ve been doing more as our resources have grown. A weekend culture section filled with original essays. Hard-hitting investigative journalism in Alberta. A brand new biodiversity beat. A reporting project called Reality Check, focusing on misinformation and online radicalization. A flagship podcast.

Our model is simple: if more of our readers sign up to support The Tyee, we can keep up with rising costs and keep adding more talented journalists to our roster and set them loose on uncovering truths that would otherwise not see the light of day.

Please help us prove that independent journalism thrives with reader support.

— Jeanette Ageson, Publisher

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Will the US Midterm Election Results Help Canada?

U.S. voters delivered a rebuke to President Donald Trump and the Republican Party last week, electing Democrat majorities to both the House and Senate.

But in the United States, presidents have a lot of power on their own — and Trump, with two more years left in his term, has indicated he plans to use his veto powers to stymie new legislation.

When it comes to Trump’s aggressive stance towards Canada and his love of tariffs, do you think the midterm results will result in a softening of his attitude towards us?

Will Canada benefit from this influx of blue senators, members of congress, and governors? Or will we face another two years of tough talk and chaotic actions directed at longtime U.S. allies?

Tell us what you think:

Will the U.S. midterm election results help Canada?

* Please note that all poll answers will be publicly viewable, but anonymous.

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Please note that Tyee Barometer polls are only intended as a quick and engaging non-scientific snapshot of our readers' opinions on various topics that fit with The Tyee's very broad editorial mandate. They are not intended to be seen as a representative sampling of BC opinion.

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