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Editor-in-chief
Dave Beers,

Managing editor (Victoria, B.C.)
Tara Campbell,

Senior editor (Powell River, B.C.)
andrea bennett,

Senior editor (Victoria, B.C.)
Paul Willcocks,

Senior editor
Jackie Wong,

Associate editor
Olamide Olaniyan,

Newsletter editor
Jacob Boon,

Culture editor
Dorothy Woodend,

Education reporter
Katie Hyslop, extension 107,

Northern BC reporter (Smithers, B.C.)
Amanda Follett Hosgood,

Reporter
Christopher Cheung, extension 105,

Reporter
Jen St. Denis,

Reporter (Victoria, B.C.)
Ben Parfitt,

BC legislative bureau chief (Victoria, B.C.)
Andrew MacLeod, (250) 885-7662,

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Publisher
Jeanette Ageson, extension 104,

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Sarah Krichel,

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Shubhalaxmi Patil,

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Acknowledgements

The Tyee is based in what is commonly known as Vancouver, British Columbia, on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) nations.

Our team reaches across the province, to the unceded territory of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on the traditional territory of the Songhees and Esquimalt nations on Vancouver Island, commonly known as Victoria; the territory of the Gidimt’en Clan of the Wet’suwet’en in the Interior, in what is commonly known as Smithers; and qathet in the traditional territories of the Tla’amin Nation on the Sunshine Coast, commonly known as Powell River.

Members of our editorial and business team also extend east, to the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat, the Seneca and the Mississaugas of the Credit, in what is commonly known as Toronto, Ontario.

We are grateful to work on the territory of these nations, and through The Tyee, to expand knowledge of Indigenous relationships to the land commonly known as Canada.

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