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With the Tyee Election Fundraiser ending Monday, will education, health care and homelessness come in last? Grab a torch!

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Geoff D'Auria is The Tyee web manager and front-page editor.

Shannon Smart is reader engagement coordinator for The Tyee.
Tyee fish storm the Bastille
Scale the walls! (Get it?)

It's July 14 and you know what that means!

Bastille Day! (Of course, right?)

With powerful media barons like Rupert Murdoch running scared and a former TV journalist decrying the state of mainstream news, it's time our mighty school of Tyee fish stormed the walls of the fourth estate.

Power to the fishies!

And by that we mean, well, will you donate to our election fund and tell us what issues matter to you?

Our sincere gratitude, but...

For everyone who's given their feedback and donated since we launched the Tyee Election Fundraiser 10 days ago, our sincere thanks.

It came as little surprise that oil tanker traffic, climate change and the environment were high on your list of concerns, and we look forward to unleashing the full power of The Tyee's award-winning reporting team on those issues. Likewise for arts and community and accountable governance. And thanks to you, we've exceeded our original $10,000 goal.

But some topics, like health care and education, are languishing at the bottom of the heap. Yet they are two of the province's biggest budgets!

How can this be? We had a hard time believing it, too. See for yourselves in the graph below.

Remember, the way this fundraiser works is that our reporters will cover the issues that get the most votes.

Teachers, librarians, health care workers! We know you're out there. Help us, help you!

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Many readers are allocating their donations to "Tyee's Choice" and letting us decide what needs media attention. Thanks! We appreciate your trust in our judgment, and will make sure to report on a variety of topics that matter to British Columbians.

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Results as of July 13, 2011.

We've also received a few very personal messages from readers telling us what issues matter most to them. Particularly touching was a hand-written note (sent in the mail!) from Richard MacDonald, who is concerned about how the oil and gas industry may start to take water from agriculture.

And for those who wrote hoping their money would go to more BC Rail and Basi-Virk reporting, note that we've added that topic to our "accountable government" category. (How did we miss that one? Thanks for the kick in the tail!)

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