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Five Art Shows to Savour This Summer
Bonus: the galleries have air conditioning!

A Squamish Cultural Plant Guide for Kids
Leigh Joseph’s ‘The Land Knows Me’ takes young readers on a walk featuring harvesting tips, recipes and activities.

Chairs from the Past and Chairs for the Future
Two chair-focused exhibitions are now on view at the Museum of Vancouver.
Recent Stories

Amazon Workers Win a Union as Company’s Tactics Slammed
BC’s labour board grants automatic certification because of an unfair anti-union campaign. Amazon plans to fight.

What Really Happened to Katica? A Tyee Investigation
Did the police and coroner dismiss a homicide as an overdose?

Kitsilano Pool Is Nearing Its End. What Comes Next?
The city is trying to figure out a new pool’s size, shape, location and funding. Ideas are rippling.

Alberta Used Lists of America’s Most Banned Books to Target ‘Inappropriate’ School Material
Internal emails show how education ministry staff compiled book titles subject to new content restrictions.

Langara Is an Environmental Leader. But the College Is Losing Staff
As the public college gets set to hit net zero by 2030, critics question the sustainability of its funding cuts.

Please Advise! An Ostrich Rock Concert?
Dr. Steve sticks his neck out for a BC music fest this weekend. Will it lay an egg?

BC’s Largest Pocket of Measles Cases Likely Peaking, Officials Say
Many of those infected were under 18 years old and were never vaccinated for measles.

BC Ends the Family Benefit Bonus
Advocates say the province’s poorest families will lose up to $60 per month. ‘This will put more families into poverty.’

As Carney Redraws the Political Map, Where Do New Democrats Go?
The PM’s spurning of the NDP could generate energy for angered progressive movements.

CONTEST: Win Tickets to Experience Mozart’s ‘Requiem’
One lucky Tyee reader will secure two seats to a performance at Early Music Vancouver's Summer Festival.

How Vancouver Is Extra Kind to Land Speculators
Loosened restraints mean owning and flipping land, not building on it, is the real financial game.

Tough Battles Ahead for BC Government Unions in ‘Crazy’ Times
As contract talks begin, the first wage offers from the province fall below the inflation rate.

People Around the World Support a Carbon Tax
Despite political pushback, a researcher finds people in affluent countries are open to paying the tax.

Welcome to the Golden Age of Testicular Technology
Lululemon’s ABC pants won’t leave you hanging. But beware of lawsuits.

How BC Opened Educational Doors to Former Foster Kids
This province is a national leader in paying for post-secondary tuition and changing lives.

Is This How the War in Palestine Ends?
‘A Land for All’ offers a bold vision for a way out of a hundred years’ conflict.

Madu Won’t Face Charges. He Blames His Ordeal on a ‘Conspiracy’
Alberta’s former justice minister says his long legal battle was a racist ‘witch hunt.’
Every week from Friday to Sunday night, you've likely noticed The Tyee with a new look and feel. It's our new culture section, the Weekender. Because we're now devoting weekends to showcasing creative ingenuity in Vancouver and across the region.
The Tyee has long run culture stories, but having a place to showcase them puts a new emphasis on the importance of these pieces in our lives, building a meeting place for a diverse and intergenerational audience.
Our hope is that the Weekender will act as a new space for readers to connect with the creative community, and for creatives to connect with our readers.
You can expect to see an exciting range of work by Tyee staff writers as well as new voices taking the Weekender stage. If you'd like to be a part of it, reach out to us with a pitch.
Thanks to our featured sponsor for our July 4 edition: Powell Street Festival.

How ‘Jaws’ Ate the Box Office
And changed Steven Spielberg’s life. A new documentary goes behind the scenes of a classic summer movie.

The Powerful Art of ‘Insurgent Solidarity’
The Indian Summer Festival invites us to soften in the face of a hard world.

A Swim Club Worth Fighting For
With the Vancouver Aquatic Centre soon closing for renovations, clubs like mine will be scrambling for space.

Celebrate Japanese Canadian Arts and Culture at Powell Street Festival
Vancouver’s beloved annual summer festival returns Aug. 2 to 3 with live performances, food, family fun and community spirit.
Deep Dive
Get to the bottom of something big.
Debate over Police in Schools
Between 2021 and 2023, three B.C. school boards ended programs with local police that saw officers working directly with students in school settings, over concerns about racist biases in policing.
But following the 2023 reintroduction of the school liaison officer program in Vancouver, and the 2025 dismissal of the Greater Victoria school board over their alleged failure to create a district safety plan with police, on May 27 the New Westminster school board voted in favour of exploring a return of their police liaison officer program to schools.
Read Katie Hyslop’s deep dive into police in B.C. public schools. All of this is possible because of our Builder members. You can join them here.

Police in Schools in BC: An Explainer
Why do some districts have them, and some don’t? What, exactly, do they do? We dig in.

What a School Board Sacking Reveals about Police in BC Schools
Feelings about SLO programs are complex. Data about them remains scarce and hard-won.

Officer Involved in Myles Gray’s Violent Death Now Works in a High School
Vancouver police won’t say whether Const. Hardeep Sahota is still facing disciplinary actions connected to the 2015 homicide.

Are Schools More Dangerous Without Embedded Police?
The VPD’s own data, obtained by The Tyee, paints a different picture than the force’s official narrative.
Editor's Pick
This story is making waves.

How We’ll Know if Carney Is the Real Deal
From Trump to Alberta, here are the five key files that will test his leadership.
Deep Dive
Get to the bottom of something big.
Focus on Indigenous Missing and Murdered
When Indigenous people go missing in Canada, their families often have to step in to investigate what happened. Family members canvass local businesses for security footage, fight for access to autopsy and police reports and speak to media to keep their loved one in the public eye. Over the years, Tyee reporters have focused on some of these cases and highlighted institutional failures in policing and death investigations.
Amanda Follett-Hosgood has covered cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women along the “Highway of Tears” and in 2021 revealed that the RCMP has no co-ordinated response to managing cases of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. And Jen St. Denis’ in-depth look at the cases of Chelsea Poorman, Noelle O’Soup and Tatyanna Harrison in Vancouver was nominated for the Landsberg award in 2024.

Her Name Was Tamara Redman, and She Was Loved
The family of a woman who died on a Vancouver roadway is holding her memory close before a crucial court date.

Chelsea, Noelle and Tatyanna Went Missing. Did Police Do Enough to Find Them?
In three tragic cases, the families of missing Indigenous women and youth encountered baffling police decisions and delays.

In Vanderhoof, Women Are Increasingly Reluctant to Seek Help from the RCMP
Victims of domestic violence are often dismissed and sometimes met with police brutality, advocates say.

Tragedy, and a Search for Answers on Sai'kuz First Nation
What happened to Chelsey Heron Quaw and Jay Raphael, who left their homes and never returned?
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For the third year in a row, The Tyee’s northern B.C. reporter, Amanda Follett Hosgood, has won a Canadian Association of Journalists award.
On May 31, Follett Hosgood won the silver award for her piece, “BC Illegally Collected Personal Info Tied to the Wet’suwet’en Conflict,” in the Freedom of Information Journalism category.
Follett Hosgood uncovered a B.C. government privacy breach that occurred leading up to the last big police enforcement on Wet’suwet’en territory during the conflict over the Coastal GasLink pipeline. In her associated piece, “BC’s Secretive Plan to Tighten Protest Response,” she dove into the province’s subsequent attempt to overhaul and beef up police responses related to land disputes through a secretive Civil Disobedience Work Plan.
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CONTEST: Win Tickets to Experience Mozart’s ‘Requiem’
One lucky Tyee reader will secure two seats to a performance at Early Music Vancouver's Summer Festival.

Chairs from the Past and Chairs for the Future
Two chair-focused exhibitions are now on view at the Museum of Vancouver.

Celebrate Japanese Canadian Arts and Culture at Powell Street Festival
Vancouver’s beloved annual summer festival returns Aug. 2 to 3 with live performances, food, family fun and community spirit.
Editor's Pick
This story is making waves.

How to Lose Democracy: A Brilliant Journalist’s Guide
What must Canadians and their new government fight to prevent? Ece Temelkuran explains in seven steps.
Deep Dive
Get to the bottom of something big.
Grieving After the Lapu-Lapu Festival Attack
Shortly after 8 p.m. on April 26, 2025, a black SUV sped into a crowd of people at Vancouver’s Lapu-Lapu festival, killing 11 people and injuring numerous others, in what acting VPD chief Steve Rai called “the darkest day in our city’s history.”
As we continue to wrap our heads around this horrific event, The Tyee has been publishing reporting and perspectives that we hope help make sense of the moment. Soon after the incident, Jen St. Denis reported from the scene as Vancouver and its Filipino community grappled with the deadly tragedy in its aftermath. Natasha Jung wrote about what Lapu-Lapu Day was meant to really be about. Michelle Gamage spoke to Kieran Fanning of the BC Bereavement Helpline about letting ourselves grieve, and reported on experts and advocates warning against stigmatization of people with mental illnesses.

After the Lapu-Lapu Day Tragedy, How Can We Keep Events Safe?
The horrific incident joins a long list of deadly vehicle attacks. Here’s how to prevent the next one.

How Should We Respond to a Shared Tragedy?
What we can do after the Lapu-Lapu Day attack is grieve, reach out and lean into a sense of community.

What Carries Us Through Our Darkest Days
One week after the Lapu-Lapu Day tragedy, a community stands together.

Groups Warn Against Blaming Mental Illness for Lapu-Lapu Day Tragedy
Jumping to quick conclusions and simple solutions can be damaging, advocates say.
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The Next Economy
From Alaska to California, people are pouring their smarts and hearts into successful enterprises that are low carbon and locally rooted. They’re employing and training, producing and sustaining.
So The Tyee created a whole new section to tell their stories and share best practices for a healthy bioregion. We call it What Works. It’s where you’ll find regular reports on the business of creating what works for a better future.
Interested in this project? Read more about What Works or contact us to be involved.

Moving Farming Inside and Up
This BC-based vertical farm is growing fast. One reason: Trump’s tariff and sovereignty threats to Canada.

Decolonizing Your Shower, One Soap Bar at a Time
How Sisters Sage brings activism, entrepreneurship and First Nations plant medicine into the bath.

Pouring the Circular Economy into Your Pint Glass
Small Gods’ Saanich Peninsula-only lager shows what can be done in one small 33-kilometre stretch.

See Why Rescuing Homes Could Have a Booming Future
An ingenious collab by shíshálh Nation and Renewal Development shows what can be done. This short video puts you there.
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The Christian Movements That Want to End Canadian Self-Rule
Tracing the networks of pastors who get charity tax breaks while fomenting theocracy and surrender to the US.
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Troubled Alberta oil and gas company faces regulatory ultimatum
(via CBC)
Edmonton father and son charged with human trafficking of workers at rural businesses
(via Global News)
Victoria police seek to standardize response to public drug use
(via Times Colonist)
Oil and gas industry group backs proposed merger of Alberta’s largest river basins
(via CBC)
Transgender-owned, LGTBQ-run music label Errant Records launches in Canada
(via CTV News)
We’re offloading mental tasks to AI. It could be making us stupid
(via Salon)
$9.5M sexual abuse class-action lawsuit against Stampede moves forward with 300 claimants
(via CBC)
Alberta to ban books deemed sexually explicit from school libraries
(via the Globe and Mail)
Canadian wildfire smoke ruining Americans’ summer, says letter from Congress members
(via CBC)
Half of provinces won’t hit 2026 $10-a-day child care target, report says
(via Global News)
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Tripping over the rug
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“Sometimes we think that if we don’t talk about things that happened in the past, those events will have no impact on us today. That is far from reality. Rather, past events and experiences have a way of impacting us, even when we don’t want to think about them. I share these wise words a therapist once said to me when trying to avoid discussing an uncomfortable issue. ‘Sweep it under the rug, and you are bound to trip over it.’
For some, that might be the most difficult part of truth and reconciliation. While it can be difficult to hear the stories, it can be even harder to realize that those experiences of mistreatment and discrimination made easier paths for others, especially if those others are us.”