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Fight back in the war against journalism.                  
Join us as a Tyee Builder.

Journalism is so over. That’s what we’re told by Elon Musk, who paid a fortune for Twitter to turn it into a hellscape of disinformation.

Journalism is a nuisance. That’s the message from Mark Zuckerberg, who blocks Canadian news from Facebook and Instagram as he, like Musk, cosies up to Donald Trump.

There’s a reason these multi-billionaires want us to believe fact-based, well-sourced reporting is dying. They actually want it dead. And they are doing their best to make it happen.

Which means the great challenge of our era is to find ways to make journalism resilient and thrive.

The Tyee is an independent, non-profit newsroom staffed with fiercely independent journalists who are answerable only to our readers.

We publish all of our work for free for everyone to read, and we’re supported by around 10,000 wonderful people we call Tyee Builders.

Tyee Builders contribute an amount that works for them, be it on a monthly, annual, or one-time basis.

Around 2 per cent of people who read The Tyee contribute financially, but just that relatively small number sustains our growing newsroom and is helping us buck the trend in the news industry of layoffs and closures.

We’re on a mission to bring on 500 new recurring supporters (that’s monthly or annual) by midnight on Dec. 31 so we can keep going strong in 2025. If you value our journalism and you want to help us do more of it, please consider joining us today.

— David Beers, Editor-in-chief

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The Tyee's Saturday Lists, Pt. 2

The Tyee's Saturday Lists, Pt. 2
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Here's Archive 2 of The Tyee's Saturday Lists.

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Canada Can Do Less with Less!

Canada Can Do Less with Less!

TYEE LIST #11: Five aspects of our national life that will be downsized by the Harper cutbacks. Change is good!

Steve Burgess / 21 Apr 2012


Five Disasters to Befall BC

Five Disasters to Befall BC

TYEE LIST #12: Earthquakes, pandemics, solar flares; a calamitous pall hangs over our province.

Crawford Kilian / 28 Apr 2012


Seven Ways to Empower Your Wired Teen

Seven Ways to Empower Your Wired Teen

TYEE LIST #13: With mobile power comes great responsibility. A teacher's tipsheet.

Nick Smith / 5 May 2012


Seven Goals to Build the Conservative 'Dream'

Seven Goals to Build the Conservative 'Dream'

TYEE LIST #14: Call it the Segal Test: Senator Segal's traits of a good Tory. Does Harper make the grade?

David Beers / 26 May 2012


Ten Ways Ryder Hesjedal Changed Canada Forever

Ten Ways Ryder Hesjedal Changed Canada Forever

TYEE LIST #15: Victoria's cycling boystar didn't 'just' win the Giro d'Italia.

Steve Burgess / 2 Jun 2012


Six Diseases You Don't Know Enough About

Six Diseases You Don't Know Enough About

TYEE LIST #16: Why wait for illness to reach you? Health is now a global fight.

Crawford Kilian / 16 Jun 2012


Five Ways Comedians Are Making it in Music

Five Ways Comedians Are Making it in Music

TYEE LIST #17: Or, how tuneful jokesters live the proxy dream.

Ariel Fournier / 23 Jun 2012


Five Surprise Cycling Lessons from Velo-city

Five Surprise Cycling Lessons from Velo-city

TYEE LIST #18: Hint: Vancouver's not the most progressive bike city. Not even close.

Luke Brocki / 30 Jun 2012


Four Intriguing Copyright Cases

Four Intriguing Copyright Cases

TYEE LIST #19: Borrowing or plagiarism? For some of these, the jury's still out.

Ariel Fournier / 7 Jul 2012


Five National Parks that Honour First Nations

Five National Parks that Honour First Nations

TYEE LIST #20: Parks Canada includes Indigenous groups in stewardship, but it wasn't always that way.

Hans Tammemagi / 4 Aug 2012