Leading the charge is Build Canada and a broligarchy of AI boosters. Second in a series. … Article written by Christopher Holcroft. The Liberal government led by Prime Minister Mark Carney has made policy that reflects, to a remarkable degree, the "memos" pumped out by the upstart pro-tech, anti-regulator advocacy group Build Canada. And Build Canada has plenty more it wants the government to do, some of its vision quite radical, as the first article in this series detailed. It is unlikely a coi...
Jun 25, 2026•7 min•Ep. 44
The province's funded fertility program has fine print that makes access harder for single men and same-sex male couples. … Article written by Gemma Boothroyd. Johnny Phung wants to have a biological child. As a gay man, he will need an egg donor and surrogate. The process could cost Phung over $100,000 and require years of planning. So when Phung learned he'd qualified for $19,000 from B.C.'s publicly funded in vitro fertilization program, he was excited. But his initial elation quickly gave wa...
Jun 25, 2026•12 min•Ep. 43
This form of aquaculture has a lot of benefits but needs new regulations to manage potential environmental threats. … Article written by John Driscoll and Edward Gregr. From sea lettuce adorning tidal pools and bull kelp left in windrows at the high tide line to towering underwater forests of giant kelp providing refuge and food for countless species, British Columbia's seaweeds are both ubiquitously prominent along shorelines as well as hidden from sight in the deep. With iconic species like sa...
Jun 25, 2026•5 min•Ep. 42
Two advocates warn detentions and bag searches are 'common.' Here's what police are and aren't allowed to do. … Article written by Michelle Gamage. Giovanni Vanzzini was walking around a leafy Vancouver neighbourhood three weeks ago when a police officer stopped him. The 49-year-old B.C. firefighter was in town to meet up with a family member. The Vancouver police officer who stopped Vanzzini said he had gotten a call about a suspicious person and that Vanzzini was being detained. Vanzzini told ...
Jun 25, 2026•7 min•Ep. 41
This series by Tyee contributor Christopher Holcraft 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 to...
Jun 24, 2026•1 min•Ep. 40
4 BC Hydro Illegally Dissuaded Worker Seeking Injury Pay News Managers discouraged an employee from filing a workers' comp claim, court affirms. 4 News News Rights + Justice Labour + Industry YesterdayThe Tyee 68 SHARES 4 Comments / 4 New Read more: News Rights + Justice Labour + Industry Managers discouraged an employee from filing a workers' comp claim, court affirms. Andrew MacLeod 24 Jun 2026 Andrew MacLeod is The Tyee's legislative bureau chief in Victoria and the author of All Together Hea...
Jun 24, 2026•10 min•Ep. 39
YesterdayThe Tyee 31 31 Comments / 31 New Carney Under the Sway of the Broligarchs Carney Under the Sway of the Broligarchs Analysis Build Canada's advocates are wealthy, aggressively pro-tech and piling up wins in Ottawa. First in a series. Analysis Analysis Politics 68 SHARES Read more: Analysis Politics Build Canada's advocates are wealthy, aggressively pro-tech and piling up wins in Ottawa. First in a series. Christopher Holcroft 24 Jun 2026 Christopher Holcroft is a writer and principal of ...
Jun 24, 2026•9 min•Ep. 38
Opinion Environment 12 12 12 Read more: Opinion Environment Opinion Environment The US has set out to allow companies to bypass UN protections against risks in international waters. Cara B.G. James YesterdayThe Conversation Cara B.G. James is a PhD candidate in geophysics at the University of British Columbia. This article was originally published by the Conversation. Our journalism is supported by readers like you. Click here to support The Tyee. URL copied to clipboard! SHARE: 68 SHARES Commen...
Jun 24, 2026•7 min•Ep. 37
When it comes to adding towers and density, the city is still divided. … Article written by Mason Mattu. After years of heated debate over the pace of real estate development in Port Moody, the upcoming civic election is once again focused on whether the Metro Vancouver suburb is growing too fast. Haven Lurbiecki, an incumbent Port Moody councillor, was the first to throw her hat in the ring in the city's upcoming mayoral election. For the first time in the city's history, Lurbiecki will run und...
Jun 24, 2026•10 min•Ep. 36
23 Jun 2026The Tyee Before opening a factory in Port Alberni, startup IGV Housing retrained two dozen workers for jobs in manufacturing. 7 7 7 Comments / 7 New A New Employer Comes to a BC Logging Town A New Employer Comes to a BC Logging Town News Before opening a factory in Port Alberni, startup IGV Housing retrained two dozen workers for jobs in manufacturing. News Read more: News Labour + Industry 68 SHARES News Labour + Industry Isaac Phan Nay 23 Jun 2026 Isaac Phan Nay is The Tyee's labour...
Jun 23, 2026•10 min•Ep. 35
Contracting locally keeps millions of public dollars in the province instead of enriching one foreign giant. … Article written by Bryan Railton. The provincial government's revised procurement approach to building the George Massey Tunnel replacement project will create benefits for local workers, local companies and local communities. As British Columbia and Canada face significant economic headwinds because of ongoing difficulties in our trading relationship with the United States, it only mak...
Jun 23, 2026•3 min•Ep. 34
A citizens' assembly fuelled hopes voters would decide the issue in October. Not so fast, says the province. … Article written by Andrew MacLeod. Advocates for amalgamating Victoria and Saanich say the provincial government's refusal to order a binding referendum on the question this fall is a betrayal. "We feel it's an about-face, and a sneaky one," said Trevor Barry, the chair and president of the group Amalgamation Yes. "We want a binding referendum," Barry said. "The next time there is a que...
Jun 23, 2026•7 min•Ep. 33
Racked by technical problems, LNG Canada has applied to be allowed to flare far more gas into Kitimat's airshed. … Article written by Zoë Yunker. LNG Canada is asking for permission to continuously flare vastly more natural gas than its current permit allows, The Tyee has learned. The country's first major LNG operation wants B.C.'s energy regulator to increase its flaring limit tenfold for the next three years. Having consistently breached its permitted flaring limits since it began production ...
Jun 23, 2026•11 min•Ep. 32
Opinion Opinion Opinion Alberta From Americanizing health care to thwarting citizens against coal pollution, she's busy. A recap. David Climenhaga 22 Jun 2026 22 Jun 2026The Tyee David J. Climenhaga is an award-winning journalist, author, post-secondary teacher, poet and trade union communicator. He blogs at AlbertaPolitics.ca. Follow him on BlueSky @djclimenhaga.bsky.social. Our journalism is supported by readers like you. Click here to support The Tyee. URL copied to clipboard! SHARE: 68 SHARE...
Jun 22, 2026•8 min•Ep. 31
In his 2025 book, The Genius Bat, Yossi Yovel, an Israeli ecologist, describes experiments he conducted with six Egyptian fruit bats, including an exercise in which he trained them to land on a target and wait for him to approach with a reward — a slice of banana. These were wild animals, so the work required hundreds of hours spent in dark rooms with a night-vision device attached to his forehead. After six months the bats displayed varying levels of trust. Some took flight the moment they had ...
Jun 22, 2026•18 min•Ep. 30
What Works SOLUTIONS Environment The Gunners saw their dream evaporating. Until they turned a water crisis into a model for climate resilience. Shauna MacKinnon 22 Jun 2026 22 Jun 2026The Tyee Shauna MacKinnon is a Vancouver-based freelance writer focusing on climate change and social issues. Our journalism is supported by readers like you. Click here to support The Tyee. URL copied to clipboard! SHARE: 68 SHARES 18 18 Comments / 18 New The Gunners saw their dream evaporating. Until they turned ...
Jun 22, 2026•11 min•Ep. 29
BC subsidizes trucking logs far distances. Some worry it leads to cutting down remote, rare forests. … Article written by Ben Parfitt. British Columbians are subsidizing the province's forest companies to the tune of tens of millions of dollars each year under a government program that defrays the cost of shipping logs from remote forests to distant mills. In 2023, the most recent year for which there is a published record, logging companies received nearly $33 million in public funds to underwr...
Jun 22, 2026•14 min•Ep. 28
Well, we know she's at home in a gravel pit and handy with a shovel. … Article written by Steve Burgess. Dear Dr. Steve, A B.C. mining company has hired former U.S. secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem. NovaRed Mining calls her position a "strategic advisory role." Good move, Dr. Steve? Signed, Doug Dear Doug, Why? Why hire Kristi Noem? Let's look at some possible reasons. NovaRed is a mining company. And Kristi Noem definitely has experience in digging holes. Not too deep — after you've s...
Jun 22, 2026•5 min•Ep. 27
The Majestic Work of Takao Tanabe The Japanese Canadian artist turns 100 this year. His paintings show that 'art is not optional but necessary — a mode of survival.' You will be hard-pressed to find evidence of humans in most of Takao Tanabe's paintings. Sure, it may be a bit lonely, even bleak, but it's also a huge source of relief; after all, people are a lot. And sometimes their absence is strangely beautiful. On the centenary year of Tanabe's life (the Japanese Canadian painter celebrates hi...
Jun 19, 2026•10 min•Ep. 26
Alexander Stubb, currently the president of Finland, starts this book by describing how, three days into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, he texted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. "Please, please stop this madness," Stubb typed into his phone. "You are the only one who can stop him." Lavrov texted back, sarcastically asking if Stubb meant Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky or then-president of the U.S. Joe Biden. The next exchanges, Stubb tells us, got him nowhere. "I quit after the ...
Jun 19, 2026•12 min•Ep. 25
Last year, I finally finished the book proposal I started way back in 2019: before the pandemic, before I had my job teaching creative writing at UBC, before I had children. A proposal from another life, started by a person I used to be. I'd been desperate to finish it. I wanted to be a writer again, a real one, who made books. After a few years deep in the weeds with two toddlers and a few hundred brilliant-but-slightly-stunned post-pandemic students, I wanted someone — an editor, ideally — to ...
Jun 19, 2026•9 min•Ep. 24
19 Jun 2026The Tyee 68 SHARES 30 How Age-Restricting Social Media May Play Out 30 What Canada's 'pause' on social media and AI chatbot accounts for kids could look like. … Article written by Katie Hyslop. News Media News Media News Rights + Justice Media Science + Tech 30 Comments / 30 New Read more: News Rights + Justice Science + Tech Media Katie Hyslop 19 Jun 2026 Katie Hyslop is a reporter for The Tyee. Follow them on Bluesky @kehyslop.bsky.social or send story tips to khyslop[at]thetyee.ca....
Jun 19, 2026•16 min•Ep. 23
June is National Indigenous History Month in Canada. To mark the moment, B.C.-based public broadcaster Knowledge Network has curated a selection of 12 films and original series highlighting the richness and diversity of Indigenous experiences, histories and calls for justice. Eight of the projects feature stories about Indigenous communities across B.C. "There are so many exceptional Indigenous filmmakers in Canada and so many stories still to be told," said Knowledge Network president and CEO M...
Jun 19, 2026•7 min•Ep. 22
He's also by far the worst. … Article written by Crawford Kilian. Much as I hate to admit it, Donald Trump is the greatest president in the 250-year-long history of the United States. Let's first understand that "greatness" does not mean "goodness." In history, greatness lies in a leader's ability to save or change a nation, to create or destroy institutions. Achieving greatness usually requires hurting a lot of people. Alexander of Macedon was great because he was the best military thinker of h...
Jun 19, 2026•8 min•Ep. 21
An excerpt from 'Wild Fire: Dispatches from a Country Ablaze,' a new book that documents how supercharged fire seasons are straining firefighting resources. [Editor's note: On Thursday, The Tyee published an interview with photojournalist Jesse Winter about his new book 'Wild Fire: Dispatches from a Country Ablaze.' In this excerpt, Winter describes how one crew became trapped inside a raging wildfire while fighting the Adams Lake fire in B.C.'s Shuswap region in 2023.] An excerpt from 'Wild Fir...
Jun 19, 2026•7 min•Ep. 20
Opinion Opinion Opinion Politics When will the province lock in standards and target communities it knows are most vulnerable? Rabia Mir 18 Jun 2026 18 Jun 2026The Tyee Rabia Mir is a PhD candidate at UBC, where her dissertation examines BC's childcare rollout. She is a parent and has worked in the childcare sector in BC. Our journalism is supported by readers like you. Click here to support The Tyee. URL copied to clipboard! SHARE: 68 SHARES 4 4 Comments / 4 New When will the province lock in s...
Jun 18, 2026•9 min•Ep. 19
SHARE: 68 SHARES Culture Media Culture Books Media Environment Read more: Culture Books Labour + Industry Media Environment Culture Books Labour + Industry Media Environment In a new book, a Vancouver photojournalist tracks the toll of intense wildfires on the people who fight them. Jen St. Denis 18 Jun 2026 18 Jun 2026The Tyee Jen St. Denis is a reporter and senior editor with The Tyee. You can follow her on Bluesky, Instagram or TikTok. Support writing that explores and celebrates local cultur...
Jun 18, 2026•13 min•Ep. 18
Opinion Opinion 98 98 98 Opinion BC Politics Her choice of a chief of staff with an anti-abortion history sends a clear message. Paul Willcocks 18 Jun 2026 18 Jun 2026The Tyee Paul Willcocks is a senior editor at The Tyee. Our journalism is supported by readers like you. Click here to support The Tyee. URL copied to clipboard! SHARE: 68 SHARES Comments / New Her choice of a chief of staff with an anti-abortion history sends a clear message. … Article written by Paul Willcocks. Even by B.C. stand...
Jun 18, 2026•6 min•Ep. 17
Some argue inflated gas prices will hasten a shift to renewables. Aluminum and sulphuric acid tell a different tale. … Article written by Andrew Nikiforuk. President Donald Trump can cajole and bully in trying to convince everyone there will be a quick economic rebound from his shambolic war in Iran. The reality will deliver something different. The war not only humiliated the United States' standing in the world but casually unleashed global shortages of critical fuels and materials, including ...
Jun 18, 2026•10 min•Ep. 16
The model could save money that would otherwise be spent on police and jail, says founder. 18 Jun 2026 18 Jun 2026The Tyee 68 SHARES 4 4 4 Vancouver Billed Itself as a Restorative Justice City. Until Budget Cuts The model could save money that would otherwise be spent on police and jail, says founder. … Article written by Katie Hyslop. News Municipal Politics News Municipal Politics News Rights + Justice Municipal Politics Read more: News Rights + Justice Municipal Politics Katie Hyslop Katie Hy...
Jun 18, 2026•14 min•Ep. 15
