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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.

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The PM and the Broligarchs

The PM and the Broligarchs

This series by Tyee contributor Christopher Holcroft traces the fast rise of the pro-tech business advocacy group Build Canada and its influence on Liberal government policies. Those wins include a boosterish approach to AI, major military spending and the privatization of a key, publicly owned technology centre. “As Build Canada’s policy proposals become more extreme,” Holcroft argues, “Canada’s prime minister should maintain a respectful distance from tech oligarchs and a healthy skepticism toward industry marketing.”

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Carney Under the Sway of the Broligarchs

Carney Under the Sway of the Broligarchs

Build Canada’s advocates are wealthy, aggressively pro-tech and piling up wins in Ottawa. First in a series.

Christopher Holcroft / 24 Jun 2026


Carney Is Selling Off Canada’s Publicly Owned Tech Gem. Why?

Carney Is Selling Off Canada’s Publicly Owned Tech Gem. Why?

Leading the charge is Build Canada and a broligarchy of AI boosters. Second in a series.

Christopher Holcroft / 25 Jun 2026


Build Canada Created a Robot MP. It’s Not Cute

Build Canada Created a Robot MP. It’s Not Cute

Tech bros made an AI ‘politician’ to love ‘economic freedom.’ Who are its constituents? Last in a series.

Christopher Holcroft / 26 Jun 2026