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There’s Power in Our Stories
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Universities Are Failing a Critical COVID Test
Post-COVID condition is a real but preventable lasting threat. Why aren’t schools taking it seriously?
Accidental Deaths That Were Really Homicides
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First United Is Bringing More Art to the Downtown Eastside
In connecting community services with Indigenous visual works, the non-profit is creating a lot more than a building. And asking you to help.
‘Disaster Nationalism’ Sets Democracy in Its Sights
A new book outlines how we’ve taken the first steps towards fascism.
A Decade Later, Imperial Metals Faces Consequences for the Mount Polley Disaster
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How One BC College Hopes to Recover from Lost International Students
Langara plans a big restructure. Faculty are worried.
Why Unemployment in Canada Is Worse than It Looks
We’re reaping the pain of needlessly high interest rates and an overhyped ‘labour shortage.’
UBC Med Students Are Offering Free Coaching on Staying Healthy
The online sessions are aimed at helping people avoid and manage illness through lifestyle changes.
Alberta Is Targeting Health-Care Workers’ Right to Strike, Says AFL
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As Billionaire Overlords Cheer Journalism’s Death, Fight Back
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A $49-Million Question Danielle Smith Struggles to Answer
In a Tyee interview, Alberta’s premier discusses the ‘Turkish Tylenol’ fiasco and who’s got all that public money.
CONTEST: Win a Pair of Tickets to 'Festive Cantatas'
This holiday, one lucky Tyee reader will get the opportunity to see Baroque classical music brought to life.
Already, a Revolt Within Rustad’s Party
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For the Aunties, with Love
Chinatown seniors star in a new exhibition featuring the work of Vancouver photographer Sophia Hsin.
Hilarious, Dazzling, Triumphant: All I Want for Christmas Is Books
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A Teeny Tiny Theatre and a Big Love of Cinema
Two Vancouver artists have crafted a miniature public cinema that goes against the grain of our algorithmic age.
What a Kids’ Book Taught Me about Parenting Through Grief
In my quest to read every Canadian children’s title of 2024, this one knocked me off my feet.
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There’s Power in Our Stories
At Family Services of Greater Vancouver, staff members’ lived experiences shape the work of helping to lift people out of crisis.
First United Is Bringing More Art to the Downtown Eastside
In connecting community services with Indigenous visual works, the non-profit is creating a lot more than a building. And asking you to help.
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A Migrant’s Nightmare: Five Months Captive in Istanbul’s Airport
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An Indigenous-Owned Model for Sustainable Tourism
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Postcard from Seattle, Birthplace of Modular Home Design
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When Golf Courses Go Wild
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'It's sort of burying our heads in the sand': Lawrence Hill criticizes Ontario board's teaching ban of his book
(via CBC)
What’s inside our galaxy’s darkest place?
(via Scientific American)
Trump taunts Trudeau by calling him 'governor' of 'a great state'
(via CBC)
Poilievre's 'Santa' quip mocking Arctic ambassador draws criticism from national Inuit leader
(via CBC)
Rustad supports ousted police board member but says MLAs can have opposing views
(via Global News)
Proposed class-action lawsuit accuses companies of price-fixing rents in Canada
(via CBC)
How to think about the public backlash to the killing of a health care CEO
(via Vox)
BC doctors sound the alarm as drop-in medical clinics disappear
(via the Times Colonist)
Department in charge of Old Age Security doesn't know if payments are enough, auditor finds
(via CBC)
Quebec premier wants to ban praying in public
(via CTV News)
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The cost of an election whether municipal, provincial or federal has become something of a cautionary reality of how we will vote, and its outcome will undoubtedly bind our lives into a very different future if we should cast our vote into a whirlwind of deception because of misleading campaigns.
Accurate information and truthful dialogue must be the conversation between candidates and the public.