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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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BC’s Unequal Life Expectancies

BC’s Unequal Life Expectancies

Residents of B.C.’s largest cities are living longer than ever. But their counterparts in the B.C. Interior are not. In fact, babies born in 2024 in many rural and remote areas are expected to live shorter lives than their neighbours born in 2014.

This series explores 20 years of life expectancy data obtained exclusively by The Tyee, taking a closer look at what diverging trends mean for people living in British Columbia.

The first story in the series crunches the numbers. The second visits the Cariboo-Chilcotin, which has one of the lowest life expectancies in the province, and which has seen a decline in life expectancy since 2014. The third story in the series looks to Richmond, which has the highest life expectancy in B.C., to glean lessons and examine contributing factors.

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BC’s Life Expectancies Are Diverging, Exclusive Data Shows

BC’s Life Expectancies Are Diverging, Exclusive Data Shows

In Richmond, 90 is the new 80. But in the BC Interior, life expectancies are shorter than 20 years ago.

Tyler Olsen / 30 Jun 2026