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Katie Hyslop @kehyslop.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 21:29 UTC

Been writing a fair bit about issues impacting LGBTQ2S+ young people in the last few of years. Was so nice to write about something as positive and uplifting as a summer camp where they can feel safe, have fun and be themselves.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:55 UTC

By choosing I feel as though I am manifesting.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:48 UTC

Can metals that naturally occur in sea water be mined, and can they be mined sustainably? A company in Oakland, California, says yes. Meet Magrathea Metals.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:47 UTC

🎶 Music you may not otherwise know about or get to hear. Three Tyee readers will win a pair of tickets to the Vancouver Folk Music Festival. #Sponsored #TyeePresents

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:43 UTC

The kids are not all right: Young voters are abandoning the incumbent in favour of populist-style oppositions in democracies around the world.

Trudeau is just one example, writes @stewartprest.bsky.social. #canpoli

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 14:36 UTC

“Against my better instincts I listened for 10 minutes. My heart sank into the ground. I have not yet retrieved it.” Andrew Nikiforuk reacts to the Biden-Trump presidential debate. Which was neither presidential nor a debate. 🇺🇸

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:12 UTC

“No, Dr. Steve was not surprised by the result of the NDP leadership race. Episodes of PAW Patrol have more dramatic tension.”

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 15:10 UTC

“The history isn’t certainly taught in your ordinary school”: Through film, the TEṮÁĆES Revitalization Project tells the story of the W̱SÁNEĆ presence on the Southern Gulf Islands.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:59 UTC

Forty-nine years ago, in June 1975, the movie “Jaws” opened in theatres. Things have never been the same since for sharks in the public imagination. 🦈

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:30 UTC

The polluted water from four open-pit coal mines in southern B.C.’s Elk Valley is well documented — fish-killing selenium, sulphates and nitrates travelling into watersheds along the U.S. border. Plus an airborne contaminant. Andrew Nikiforuk reports.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:23 UTC

David Climenhaga: There was a whiff of panic in the UCP’s announcement last week that they’d now be going after Naheed Nenshi, for sure, big time, no mercy, now that the former three-term Calgary mayor had been chosen as the leader of the NDP.

#abpoli

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:18 UTC

This week, the West Vancouver Art Museum team is preparing for the third annual West Coast Modern Week. Come celebrate its 30th anniversary!

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:15 UTC

Holistic approaches to care. Addressing the information gap. Prevention. Researchers have been studying the impact of long COVID. Here are some of their solutions. 🦠

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 14:12 UTC

Reena Virk was fatally beaten and drowned by a group of her peers in Saanich, B.C., when she was 14 in 1997. A new TV series wrestles with the ethics of truth, and how fiction can help us understand our shared reality.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 21:14 UTC

“It’s such an artistry”: The art form of drag keeps evolving, as queer and trans youth can discover at UBC’s CampOUT!

@kehyslop.bsky.social interviews the community mentor — and non-human drag persona — behind it. 🎨

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:21 UTC

The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care does not recommend breast cancer screening for women aged 40 to 49. Meanwhile, rates of breast cancer are rising in younger women, and early detection can save lives.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:14 UTC

To bring change, sometimes you need to take a step back and invite everyone to sit at the same table, says Land Champion Award winner Lydia Hwitsum. #TyeePresents #Sponsored

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:11 UTC

Shoes on or shoes off? 👟👞👢 The great debate has divided nations and muddied hallways.

But @jenstden.bsky.social is breaking her silence: today she dives into years of Americans’ horror when asked to take their shoes off in someone’s home.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 14:01 UTC

Lea LeGardeur went from learning to crew aboard the I Gotta to captaining her own boat in Alaska’s Bristol Bay.

The seagoing program changing lives. 🛥 #WhatWorks

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:42 UTC

After years of being absorbed, understandably, in infectious diseases, a new report uncovers how the private sector affects people’s health. And what we need to turn things around. @crof.bsky.social writes. 🦠

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:37 UTC

“I used to feel shame when taking a day off. Not anymore.” Fixing a too-competitive work environment starts with tackling masculine norms in management. Alana Friend Lettner writes the second of three dispatches from the bush. 🌳

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:34 UTC

“It certainly signals a moment in time where there’s enough independent publishers that are passionate about the industry, confident enough, to put their hand up.”

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 15:27 UTC

In not so breaking news: Vancouver is once again listed as one the most expensive cities in the world. A comedic web series holds a smart mirror to renter life. 🌆💸

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 16:53 UTC

When the news came that Vice Media was shutting down, some staffers received an anonymous tip that its website would be deleted, too. Journalists were scrambling: how to save their work from potential digital death?

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 15:14 UTC

🪧🌎 “BC LNG will reduce global emissions.” Believe it? As pressure builds to ban “blatantly false” advertisements, Ad Standards Canada described this Canada Action poster as “greenwashing.” But now, the interim decision is being appealed.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 14:58 UTC

The number of Calgarians who trust the city has seen a 12% drop since 2021.

Amid polarization and a drinking water crisis, how to get it back, reports @ximenaka.bsky.social.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 26, 2024 at 14:52 UTC

“We have to deal with the Stampeders. One of them has mono.” “Always on Call” follows Marion McKinnon Crook’s life as the first line of medical defence in the Cariboo in the 1970s. And the time the big game depended on her needle. 🏒🩺

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 20:50 UTC

Smooth moves 🍊: The new Alberta NDP leader makes smart picks for top jobs in the party and aims for the road. Dive in with David Climenhaga. #abpoli

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 20:48 UTC

The Conservative Party of Canada shocked the Trudeau government by winning the byelection in the riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s — a Liberal stronghold for the last 30 years.

Michael Harris on a seismic loss. #topoli #canpoli

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 16:20 UTC

#Update: Stretch goal more than reached.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 15:09 UTC

“Search and Rescue” has come back to get us: The documentary series returns with more heroism and heartbreak from an amazing team in North Vancouver. 🗻 And they’re volunteers!

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 15:07 UTC

Don’t fret about putting your baby in daycare. New research shows babies love groups of babies. 👶🏾👶🏽👶🏼

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 15:00 UTC

Hurried pursuit of a liquefied natural gas windfall in B.C. and Alberta will squander a key component of Canada’s long-term energy security while causing environmental devastation, according to a new report. Andrew Nikiforuk reports.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 20:21 UTC

If candidates didn’t care about losing, what would they tell us? Maybe this, writes Steve Burgess.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 15:58 UTC

As UCP justice minister, he called a police chief after receiving a traffic ticket. An unprecedented inquiry ensued.

But from the outset of his hearing, there was a problem with his defence: it wasn’t plausible. @charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports. #abpoli

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 14:40 UTC

The word “woke” has lost any real or useful meaning since its origins in African American vernacular English. It’s now become commonplace in right-wing campaigns and is being applied (seemingly quite effectively) to target anything and everything.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 14:31 UTC

Xtli’li’ye Lydia Hwitsum was named Land Champion and Sulatiye’ Maiya Modeste chosen Emerging Leader. At the Real Estate Foundation of BC’s 2024 Land Awards Gala, projects and people that protect lands and waters are celebrated.

Read more with #TyeePresents. #Sponsored

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 24, 2024 at 14:23 UTC

Alberta’s NDP is no longer the party of Rachel Notley.

Now it belongs to Naheed Nenshi, who crushed his opponents. The assessment that will no doubt rankle some longtime New Democrats. Graham Thomson writes. #abpoli

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 20:06 UTC

“Very simply put, a journalist in handcuffs cannot get their story out,” said Katherine Jacobsen from the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 17:50 UTC

“I’d been waiting. For what, I wasn’t sure. A giant cosmic light? A booming sound? ... But I’d seen nothing. Maybe I fell asleep and missed it? Surely, that must be it.” Carly Butler braces for the end of the world in this excerpt from “Apocalypse Child.”
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 17:23 UTC

Home to the third-largest oil reserves on the planet — 97 per cent in Alberta’s oilsands — Canada is an opportune and crucial place to study the “oil culture wars,” writes Jordan B. Kinder in “Petroturfing.”
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