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2026-05-04 17:01:26 CEST

David J. Climenhaga: It may have been the fringy Republican Party of Alberta that got caught letting data from its voters’ list be published online, but it is the law-bending style of politics embedded in this province by the #UCP that made such a breach inevitable. #abpoli
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/05/04/Alberta-Voters-Data-Breach-Very-Bad/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2026-04-21 14:55:06 CEST

A network of 20 inauthentic YouTube accounts has racked up nearly 40 million views by peddling lies, grievance, division and narratives normalizing the prospect of Alberta’s secession and annexation by the United States. Charles Rusnell reports. #abpoli
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/04/21/Dishonest-Online-Campaign-Support-Alberta-Separatism/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2026-04-09 18:49:41 CEST

“This is the story of one much-loved tree in Vancouver — important to me and, it turns out, a lot of other people. It’s a story about how we lose big trees, not only here but around the world, and what’s lost when we do.”
J.B. MacKinnon writes. 🌳🌸
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/04/09/They-Cut-Down-Grandpapa/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2026-03-26 17:19:43 CET

It’s unlikely the bobolink, which remains on B.C.‘s endangered species list, will get the help it needs, according to a study published Monday that found genuine improvements in at-risk species’ status are “exceedingly rare.” 🐦‍⬛
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/03/26/Just-14-Species-Genuinely-Improved-BC-At-Risk-Lists/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2026-03-20 16:35:10 CET

Northback Holdings, a coal mining company owned by billionaire Australian Gina Rinehart, has launched a $2-billion claim against the Canadian government under a little-known trade agreement. Andrew Nikiforuk reports.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/03/20/Australian-Mining-Billionaire-Sues-Canada/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2026-03-18 22:06:46 CET

Bystander response is the primary driver of a choking person’s outcome, so ensuring people know the safest and most effective way to care for a choking person can save lives. Three experts explain. 🥦
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/03/18/New-Evidence-Says-Back-Blows-Better-Than-Heimlich-Maneuver/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2026-02-23 16:22:25 CET

Emmett Macfarlane: Albert Premier Danielle Smith’s vision is one that would create a nightmarish, dystopian underclass. It is a cruel, inherently racist agenda, straight from the far-right populist playbook we have seen play out in the United States. It is anti-Canadian. #abpoli
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/02/23/Danielle-Smith-No-Separatist-Much-Worse/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2026-02-10 17:58:21 CET

A conservative Canadian broadcast news network is incorporating propaganda from U.S. dark-money-funded think tanks directly into its regular programming.
Christopher Holcroft writes. #canpoli #CdnMedia #uspoli
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/02/10/Dark-Money-US-Think-Tanks-Canadian-TV-Network/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2026-02-09 19:56:11 CET

“At this juncture, writing judgy little statements on social media isn’t useful. Do anything instead.”
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/02/06/Time-for-Protest-Song/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2026-02-03 23:48:05 CET

The purpose of Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act is to destroy public health care as we know it.
Not just in Alberta, but throughout Canada, by legislating two-tier health care. David J. Climenhaga writes. #abpoli
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/02/03/Albertas-Plan-To-Kill-Health-Care/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2026-01-23 16:14:52 CET

“When any sector cries about labour shortages, it’s labour shortages at the price of what they think should be the price of labour in their sector.” #canlab
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/01/23/What-Behind-Pilot-Shortage-Canada/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2026-01-20 14:54:25 CET

What do laws say about sharing of fake, non-consensual sexualized images of adults and kids online?
What is the recourse for Canadians whose images are being altered to sexualize them?
Is #X, the U.S.-based platform that has done little to stop it, breaking existing Canadian laws?
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/01/20/Grok-Fake-Nudes-Canadian-Laws/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2026-01-09 15:56:44 CET

If Dr. Andrew A. Pieper and his colleagues succeed in preventing and reversing Alzheimer’s in humans, they will change social attitudes towards old age. Crawford Kilian interviews. 🧠
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/01/09/Glimpse-Hope-Alzheimers-Reversed/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2026-01-08 17:03:38 CET

“With the help of Washington, a post-Carney Canada could finally see free and fair elections and the establishment of a secure and prosperous economy integrated with the rest of North America.” 🇺🇸🇨🇦 #canpoli #uspoli
[Editor’s note: This is a satirical opinion piece reprinted by The Tyee, originally published in the Halifax Examiner.]
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/01/08/Arrest-Mark-Carney-Peace-Prosperity/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-12-23 17:38:53 CET

“There is this incredible revisionist history,” said Amy Janzwood, an assistant professor in political science at McGill University.
“It’s like, ’We bought #TMX, look how profitable it can be.’ Profitable is not the word we should be using at all.” #canpoli
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/12/23/Trans-Mountain-Profitability-Accounting-Illusion/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-12-09 15:24:59 CET

Jared Wesley: Did the premier of Alberta attack the constitutional role of the courts in Canada’s democracy?
Yes, she did, and in no uncertain terms. #abpoli
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/12/09/Danielle-Smith-Dangerous-Attack-Courts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-12-05 15:50:33 CET

“I don’t think that I’ve ever seen a landlord pursue quite such a campaign against its own tenants.”
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/12/05/Vancouver-Landlord-Keeps-Being-Allowed-Evict-Tenants/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-12-04 16:07:31 CET

John Rustad insisted he’s still the leader of the B.C. Conservatives Wednesday even after a majority of the party’s MLAs said they had lost confidence in him and the party announced the appointment of Trevor Halford as interim leader.
Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/12/04/BC-Conservatives-Chaos-Division/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-12-03 17:18:49 CET

#Lytton residents will have their class-action lawsuit against Canada’s two major railway companies heard in the B.C. Supreme Court, thanks partly to new evidence of high brake temperatures on a train passing through the community shortly before the town burned.
Amanda Follett Hosgood reports.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/12/03/Lytton-Fire-Class-Action-Railways/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-11-28 16:20:04 CET

With the planet running a carbon-induced fever and desperate to replace fossil fuels, Canada is one of the countries turning to nuclear energy. Not everyone is pleased.
Michael Harris writes. #canpoli
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/11/28/Canada-Calls-Reactors-Peaceful-Not-So-Simple/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-11-14 16:38:20 CET

While PM Carney’s fast-tracking initiative has been touted as a response to U.S. President Trump’s trade war, critics have pointed out the projects are largely backed by foreign-owned corporations — and include substantial U.S. investment.
Amanda Follett Hosgood reports. #uspoli #canpoli #LNG
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/11/14/Ksi-Lisims-LNG-Nation-Building-Projects/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-11-07 16:10:46 CET

Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s “Abundance” is a pitch to disoriented liberals for a new order.
After it was published in March, Canadian governments released laws aimed at cutting regulations.
That's not a coincidence, said BC Green MLA Jeremy Valeriote. Zoë Yunker reports. 🇺🇸📖🇨🇦
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/11/07/Abundance-Movement-Dividing-Left/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-10-31 14:36:38 CET

If you think the #COVID19 pandemic is done and ever-evolving variants pose no significant threat, consider these two realities, writes contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/10/31/Physicist-COVID-Seriously-Enough/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-10-31 14:35:47 CET

Don’t bet on John Rustad going away any time soon, despite the B.C. Conservative party chaos and his leadership failures, writes Paul Willcocks. #bcpoli
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/10/31/Why-John-Rustad-Not-Going-Away/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-10-29 16:05:15 CET

“In order to turn the page to become a new and free country, Alberta has to ditch the things that are Canadian that exist in Alberta right now,” said Bruce Pardy, the exec director for Rights Probe, at a right-wing political conference in Calgary. 🚫🇨🇦 #abpoli
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/10/29/Alberta-Separatist-End-Indigenous-Rights/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-10-27 17:23:22 CET

As bad as COVID-19 was, the authors of a new book on pandemic planning believe we got off lightly,
Crawford Kilian writes. 🦠
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/10/24/Book-Buy-Bulk-Public-Health-Officials/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-10-09 18:08:34 CEST

As drought in B.C.’s Peace River region leads to massive wildfires and the City of Dawson Creek scrambles to find a new water source, a report released today concludes that water use by the region’s fracking industry shot up a record 50% last year.
Ben Parfitt reports. #bcpoli
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/10/09/Fracking-Water-Demand-Soared-Northeast-BC/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-10-06 16:26:43 CEST

In this preview to his lecture this Wednesday, award-winning veteran journalist Stephen Maher speaks to how social media has changed everything, the Canadian response to Charlie Kirk’s murder, the problem of “news deserts” and whether future journalists will need rich parents. #uspoli #canpoli
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/10/06/Stephen-Maher-News-Polarized-Times/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-09-22 22:22:17 CEST

Andrew Nikiforuk: Unfortunately, these claims that nuclear power can provide cheap energy security or reverse the persistent failure of national and global policies to reduce CO2 emissions is an illusion. #abpoli #canpoli
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/09/22/New-Nuclear-Fever-Debunked/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-09-19 17:16:34 CEST

“There are worse examples a young person could follow.” 🎬
#RobertRedford
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/09/19/Robert-Redford-Effect/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-09-02 22:51:16 CEST

“Like the post-pandemic fashion boom that had us rejecting comfy clothes for extravagant outfits, I’m on a daily Vancouver duel against monotony and practicality.” 🧥
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/08/29/Dressing-for-Joy/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-08-25 16:35:43 CEST

Canadian employers have been ordering workers back to in-person work through blanket return-to-office policies.
On top of harming workplace equity, these policies have repercussions as children head back to school and respiratory illness season looms, write three experts. 🦠 #canlab
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/08/25/Back-Office-Orders-Destructive-Unnecessary/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-08-18 16:11:10 CEST

Adam Olsen: By framing the decision as a threat to property owners, the attorney general risks stoking public fear and scapegoating First Nations for a problem they did not create. #bcpoli
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/08/18/True-Threat-Private-Property-Ignoring-Indigenous-Title/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-08-07 03:06:53 CEST

A B.C. Supreme Court justice has dismissed the Xatśūll First Nation’s request to overturn a provincial decision allowing the expansion of the Mount Polley mine’s tailings facility.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/08/06/Mount-Polley-Tailings-Expansion-BC-Supreme-Court/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-07-22 16:19:03 CEST

The Tyee looks at three critical and vastly different means to store carbon in the West, examining how these ecosystems capture carbon, the restoration work they require and why Canada should take them seriously as solutions.
Kristen de Jager reports.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/22/Carbon-Fix-Closer-Than-You-Think/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-07-11 23:18:53 CEST

Amazon workers in Delta have won the battle to unionize after the BC Labour Relations Board found the company committed “serious” offences to try and block an organizing drive. #bclab
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/11/Delta-Workers-Win-Union-Amazon-Unfair-Tactics-Slammed/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-07-09 23:32:20 CEST

“We found that people in high-income countries are willing to let go of some purchasing power, if they can be sure that it solves climate change and global poverty,” researcher Adrian Fabre said.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/09/World-Supports-Carbon-Tax-Despite-Pushback/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-07-07 17:18:50 CEST

Alberta now leads the continent in a preventable childhood disease that leaves at least two of every 1,000 infections with severe intellectual disabilities, pneumonia or hearing loss. Or dead.
Andrew Nikiforuk writes. #abpoli
http://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/07/07/Danielle-Smith-Queen-Measles/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-07-01 16:12:57 CEST

What makes a word Canadian?
Sometimes it’s origin. “Demoviction.” “Renoviction.” “Trick or treat.”
Sometimes it’s frequency. “Down island.” “Atmospheric river.” “Zombie fire.”
These are just two of six types of Canadianisms, according to lexicographer Stefan Dollinger. 🇨🇦💬
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/06/30/Do-You-Speak-Canadian/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-06-27 16:02:40 CEST

Mount Polley mine’s tailings dam had already exceeded the maximum height authorized under its environmental certificate when it experienced a catastrophic failure more than a decade ago, lawyers for Xatśūll First Nation told B.C.’s Supreme Court this week.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/06/27/Mount-Polley-Dam-Exceeded-Authorized-Height/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-06-25 23:38:38 CEST

Wildfires are making glaciers retreat faster, but not how you might think.
Instead of the heat from the flames melting the glacier, the smoke is darkening the snow and ice. This causes the glacier surface to absorb more energy from the sun and melt faster.
Kristen de Jager reports. 🗻🔥
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/06/25/Wildfires-Speeding-Up-Glaciers-Shrinking-Ice-Albedo-Effect/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-06-25 15:01:54 CEST

The new right-wing alternative has launched with a remarkably inexperienced staff, despite the extra taxpayer money that comes with its new official party status.
And with a hiring focus on political purity that’s quickly going to become a weakness.
Paul Willcocks writes. #bcpoli
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/06/25/OneBC-Big-Hiring-Mistake/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-06-24 17:19:10 CEST

“It’s a strange thing to find myself more shocked now than at things that the Harper government tried,” said Green MP Elizabeth May.
#cdnpoli
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/06/24/Ass-Backwards-Canada-Bill-C-5/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-06-06 15:44:09 CEST

A UBC student has raised $3,000 to make a billboard that says “Abortion is safe, normal and common” to counter the anti-abortion billboard messaging that peppers the Okanagan region.
But she’s stumped on where to post her message. Michelle Gamage reports. 🪧
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/06/06/Kelowna-Companies-Pro-Choice-Billboards/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-06-05 14:53:32 CEST

What’s the appropriate age for reading graphic novels that depict sex acts or contain frank discussions of sexuality and abuse?
That’s the question the Alberta government says it is asking with a new survey about the books stocked on public school library shelves. Katie Hyslop reports.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/06/05/Who-Afraid-Students-Reading-Sex/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-06-03 16:44:38 CEST

“Yintah,” a film about Wet'suwet'en residence to the Coastal GasLink pipeline, has won best feature-length documentary at the Canadian Screen Awards.
Read all about the film in this Tyee Q&A from last year.
https://www.thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/05/03/When-Truth-Stranger-Fiction-Turn-Documentary/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-05-27 16:12:21 CEST

Is there hope for the artist amid the explosion of AI and non-stop enshittification of platforms we used to rely on for building our brand?
Cory Doctorow told us what he thinks Mark Carney should do.
In the meantime, what should *we* do?
Harrison Mooney interviews.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/05/27/Musk-Zuck-Use-Our-Love-Hostage/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-05-26 23:08:19 CEST

In 2003, the BC Liberals passed a law that let it fast-track “significant projects” and bypass the normal approval process.
The NDP of 2003 had strong feelings about the legislation. But it had much in common with today’s #Bill15, introduced by the NDP itself. Zoë Yunker reports.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/05/26/Bill-15-NDP-Following-BC-Liberal-Approach/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-04-17 16:08:25 CEST

We’re moving fast to report on this election, and going above our normal editorial spending, because this moment is too important to miss.
Will you join us? 🗳🗞 #CdnElxn2025 #CdnMedia
https://support.thetyee.ca/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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2025-04-04 16:20:15 CEST

First Nations leaders are calling on the Conservatives to drop Aaron Gunn as their candidate for North Island-Powell River because of his past comments on residential schools.
#bcpoli
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/04/04/First-Nations-Leaders-Want-Conservative-Candidate-Dropped/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-03-04 17:28:54 CET

Did the BC Conservative leader ever have it? asks Dr. Steve.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/03/04/Please-Advise-Has-Rustad-Lost-Control-Already/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-02-28 18:48:26 CET

Even as DOGE, or the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency, has created controversy and chaos, some members of a group of tech CEOs have shown interest in creating a similar agency in Canada.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/28/Tech-CEOs-DOGE-Canada/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-02-07 18:18:15 CET

David J. Climenhaga: It’ll be hard for the UCP to shake off former Alberta Health Services CEO Athana Mentzelopoulos’s bombshell allegation that she was fired for launching an investigation of procurement deals and private surgical contracts pushed by staffers in Premier Smith’s government.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/02/07/Health-Care-Corruption-Allegations-Rock-Smith-Government/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-02-07 16:53:36 CET

British Columbia is banning the Chinese-owned artificial intelligence application DeepSeek from government-managed devices. Andrew MacLeod reports.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/07/BC-Canada-Ban-Public-Sector-Staff-DeepSeek/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-02-07 16:46:40 CET

“Backlash does not mean DEI is failing,” says Camellia Bryan, an assistant professor at UBC’s Sauder School of Business.
“It often signals that dominant-group employees are experiencing discomfort as existing power structures shift.” Isaac Phan Nay interviews.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/02/07/Real-Reasons-DEI-Backlash-Solutions/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-02-07 16:13:00 CET

Dear Elon, we’re out.
The Tyee will no longer be posting to X (formerly Twitter) and we’ve removed the X sharing buttons from our stories. Here’s why.
https://thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/2025/02/07/No-Thanks-Musk-Readers-Elsewhere/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-01-15 17:24:33 CET

Trump is wrong. The U.S. does not subsidize Canada — it’s the other way around. These numbers show a tariff war makes no sense. Economist Jim Stanford writes.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/01/15/Trump-Wrong-US-Does-Not-Subsidize-Canada/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2025-01-14 15:57:07 CET

Who would you choose to babysit your country: Ford, Poilievre or Smith? 🇨🇦
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/01/14/Please-Advise-Political-Leaders/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-12-19 15:30:58 CET

“We should all thank Chrystia Freeland for this lesson. With the recent Canada Post disruptions, it can be hard to know the best way to deliver a holiday message. Freeland showed us how it’s done.”
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/12/19/Please-Advise-Justin-Trudeau-Done/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-12-18 18:05:56 CET

Angelo Isidorou runs the BC Conservatives.
He’s come a long way since his 2017 appearance at a pro-Trump rally in Vancouver.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/12/18/From-MAGA-Kid-Canadian-Right-Wing-Power-Player/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-12-17 21:45:51 CET

Sam Routley: The tone and timing of Chrystia Freeland’s resignation seems carefully designed to cause the most chaos within the government.
It seems not so much a statement on Freeland’s future as an attempt to remove a sitting prime minister. #canpoli
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/12/17/Freeland-Topple-Trudeau-Now-What/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-12-16 18:53:13 CET

Wow! 🤩 Just one week into our Tyee Builder drive, we’ve passed the halfway point! 💫💫
As tech billionaires undermine journalism, thank you so much to the readers and Builders who are making ours possible.
Join us today! 👉 support.thetyee.ca/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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2024-12-12 16:17:00 CET

Experts say the investigations into Tenet Media provide a look at how the information many Canadians consume on YouTube and other platforms is being shaped, funded and promoted by foreign governments and domestic special interests.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/12/12/Russian-Political-Influence-Campaign-Canada/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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2024-12-11 03:21:57 CET

A decade after one of Canada’s worst mining disasters resulted in the dumping of billions of litres of toxic waste into the Fraser watershed, Vancouver-based mining company Imperial Metals has been charged under the federal Fisheries Act.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/12/10/Mount-Polley-Disaster-Consequences/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-12-04 17:32:21 CET

Hazelnuts and an ancient B.C. city: Research on a tiny nut suggests Indigenous people were cultivating food before wheat farming began in Egypt. 🌰
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/12/04/Hazelnuts-Reveal-Secrets-Ancient-BC-City/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-11-26 17:47:21 CET

Premier Eby surely relied on the most up-to-date methods in putting his team together. Dr. Steve wasn’t there but imagines it went like this.
“I hate foreigners,” Spencer Chandra Herbert might have said.
Chandra Herbert is now in charge of Tourism.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/11/26/Please-Advise-Political-Cabinet-Making/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-11-26 17:39:18 CET

Why does Poilievre keep saying the Nazis were socialists?
A right-wing interpretation of history links fascism and socialism. How accurate is it? A Tyee explainer.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/11/26/Why-Poilievre-Saying-Nazis-Socialists/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-11-22 17:32:54 CET

Is B.C.’s wolf cull setting the stage for a disaster? A hunt to protect caribou could increase the spread of a horrific disease, researchers warn. 🐺
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/11/22/BC-Wolf-Cull/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-11-22 17:22:17 CET

On Nov. 8, as Irene Alec walked along downtown Burns Lake, she stooped to pick up a green cloth shopping bag that was lying in the road and placed it on the sidewalk.
Moments later, she found herself handcuffed in the back of an RCMP vehicle.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/11/22/Lake-Babine-Elder-Handcuffed-Ticketed/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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2024-11-21 16:37:29 CET

Stephen Harper, former PM and author of the Firewall Letter urging Alberta to pull out of CPP, has been handed the keys to AIMCo, home to public sector union workers’ pension savings. #abpoli #canpoli
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/11/21/Harper-Now-Runs-Alberta-Pension-Fund/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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2024-11-12 16:38:37 CET

A curriculum framework calling on teachers to promote Alberta’s #OilAndGas industry to schoolchildren was quietly published months ago, to the surprise of experts and the opposition.
Angela Amato and Carly Penrose report. An investigation with the @npub1364…u672.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/11/12/What-Alberta-Wants-Children-Taught-Fossil-Fuels/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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2024-11-06 17:04:03 CET

“Fascism is not a static artifact wearing a brown shirt.
“This damnable political force evolves like a COVID virus with ever-changing variants.
“It is not so much a definable political choice as it is a conditioned response to disorder.”
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/11/05/What-Is-Fascism/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-11-06 16:14:10 CET

It’s more or less over. Trump won.
The worst campaign, run by the worst candidate, backed by all the worst people.
Only in America.
#uspoli
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/11/06/Fool-Them-Twice/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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2024-10-21 15:40:49 CEST

The election was rough. The struggle to govern for the common good will be rougher. Paul Willcocks writes. #BCElxn2024
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/10/21/Super-Polarized-BC/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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2024-10-19 02:10:42 CEST

Join The Tyee Saturday night for live election results!
Thanks to new machines that tabulate votes, results are expected within an hour of polls closing at 8 p.m. tomorrow.
We’ll be updating our coverage throughout the night. #BCElxn2024
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/10/18/BC-2024-Election-Results-Live-Coverage/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-10-18 17:06:07 CEST

“What can I tell you about my cherished friend Stan Persky, who died on Oct. 15, in Berlin?
“His writing was sharp, his advocacy principled. When I needed help, his generosity shone.”
Tom Sandborn writes.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/10/18/Remembering-Stan-Persky/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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2024-10-15 17:08:15 CEST

🚏 “A troubling trend has emerged in media: journalists leaving their ivory towers to ride public transit, only to report their discomfort at seeing people in crisis.”
Jeremy Appel writes. #CdnMedia
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/10/15/Lock-Up-Lost-Souls-Bus-Riding-Journalist/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-10-03 18:47:59 CEST

I’m at the Pizza Hut
I’m at the campaign office
I’m at the combination
Pizza Hut and campaign office
#bcpoli
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/10/03/Case-Political-Pizza-Hut/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-10-01 18:28:14 CEST

A female grizzly bear and two cubs could possibly herald the coming of a grizzly population to Vancouver Island, which hasn’t had the bears since the last ice age.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/10/01/When-Female-Grizzly-Swims-Shore/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-09-11 21:56:44 CEST

🐋🕊🐕 We’re endlessly fascinated by local critters, big and small. And there are always more to learn about from our readers’ backyards.
So Tyee readers, what’s your favourite local critter?
https://thetyee.ca/Polls/2024/09/06/Favourite-Local-Critter/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-09-03 23:06:34 CEST

Despite the rising number of COVID cases, overwhelmed hospitals and the tremendous long-term toll on individuals, prevention efforts have been abandoned.
Andrew Nikiforuk writes.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/09/03/COVID-Surge-High-Price-Viral-Denial/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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2024-08-28 14:00:38 CEST

#Exclusive: On the heels of the last significant police action on #Wetsuweten territory, B.C. quietly embarked on a process to “streamline” its response to what it saw as a rising wave of protests across the province. @npub1t9l…3fa2 reports.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/08/28/BC-Secretive-Plan-Tighten-Protest-Response/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-08-20 16:39:30 CEST

Welcome, @npub1gl7…vsd0, to The Tyee! 🤩
The veteran journalist and resource industry researcher explains why he’s starting a new chapter in our pages.
https://thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/2024/08/20/Ace-Reporter-Ben-Parfitt-Joins-The-Tyee/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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2024-08-15 16:23:58 CEST

“Western voters in recent weeks have demonstrated they’re exhausted, angry and frustrated with incumbents — but they’ve also indicated that when offered a choice between far-right ideology and policies that address struggles, they’ll opt for the latter.”
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/08/15/How-Beat-Far-Right-Ballot/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-08-09 17:43:43 CEST

The scalable model keeps thousands of bicycles out of landfills every year, and helps cyclists fix their rides on the cheap. 🚲
https://thetyee.ca/WhatWorks/2024/08/09/Enduring-Power-Community-Bike-Shops/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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2024-08-07 16:41:11 CEST

For nearly six days, water was accumulating behind a 30-metre-high debris accumulation deposited by a massive landslide across Chilcotin River.
The river reduced to a trickle.
But on Monday, the B.C. Interior finally got the alert they were waiting for.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/08/07/Disaster-Dodged-Chilcotin-River-Landslide/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-08-07 16:37:17 CEST

Apparently Yesenia from Russia, Fay from England and Belle from France who has no Twitter followers are “northern Ontarios” “still buzzing” from Pierre Poilievre’s rally in Kirkland Lake!
Steve Burgess on whether PP is winning the battle of the bots.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/08/07/Please-Advise-Poilievre-Winning-Battle-Bots/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-08-07 00:39:44 CEST

As fellow animals, our ancestors took time to marvel at the sheer intensity of the lives of their sisters and brothers.
Now we just call them species. And we dutifully count their disappearance like accountants. Andrew Nikiforuk writes.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/08/06/Vulture-Parable/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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2024-07-30 23:19:00 CEST

American conservatives are howling about the Olympic opening ceremony, which they claimed included a Last Supper-like tableau starring some drag queens.
It wasn’t, though — it actually depicted the gods of Olympus, highlights Steve Burgess. 🏟
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/07/30/Please-Advise-Watching-Olympics/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-07-17 16:06:28 CEST

“His face bloodied, his posture defiant, the moment was captured in a now iconic photograph that is already emblazoned on T-shirts for sale.”
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/07/17/Trump-Now-Officially-Superhero/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial