After losing in court, the British Columbia government is trying again to restrict third parties from advertising before elections. Read more…

Canada's first Indigenous reporting class at the University of British Columbia has set out to prove the story of Aboriginal health issues in Canada isn't all doom and gloom with the release feature stories on Aboriginal health issues--and solutions--and a series of radio stories running on CBC this week. Read more…

Party leaders battling it out in the final days of the Alberta election campaign braved the barbs of a live studio audience in a final debate before Monday's vote.

Liberal Leader Raj Sherman, struggling for traction much of the campaign, set the tone by suggesting the election has turned into a choice between bullies and bigots. The bullies reference was a shot at the Progressive Conservatives, who have faced allegations they have used heavy-handed tactics to silence critics. Read more…

Along with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadians' right to freedom of the press turned 30 years old today. But as Ivor Shapiro asked in a column here in February: does anyone really care? Read more…

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - A British Columbian woman originally barred from the Miss Universe Pageant because she was born a male has been given the thumbs up to participate in the competition and there's a suggestion her case might allow others like her to take part in future. Read more…

VANCOUVER - The case of a transgendered Vancouver woman kicked out of the Miss Universe Canada pageant reached a new high on Monday, pitting Donald Trump's Miss Universe Organization against a prominent American lawyer. Read more…

OTTAWA - Highlights from the Conservative government's 2012 budget, released Thursday. Read more…

A two-day conference starting Friday will bring together B.C. politicians, policy-makers, educators and others who are at the cutting edge of social change -- and finding that edge close to home. The range of workshops at The Future Is Local Civic Governance Forum, to be held at Harrison Hot Springs, reflects various hot button issues local public officials face these days, said Charley Beresford, executive director of The Columbia Institute, which is putting on the event. Read more…

As New Democrats vote in the first round of their leadership election on Friday, a website has already ranked the candidates by their use of social media such as Facebook and Twitter. Read more…

Tyee editor David Beers was traveling down a highway with his family on holiday when emailed questions from Ezra Levant arrived yesterday morning. Levant's controversial views on 'ethical oil' and who has the right to journalistically explore important questions involving the oil sands and Canada's energy future were satirized in the video "Ethical Oil: The Puppet Rap" published by The Tyee last week. Afterwards, Levant used his Sun TV show to attack The Tyee. Preparing a second show designed to do the same, he sent the questions below Monday morning. By the time the queries made it to Beers, there was no time to answer them before the deadline Levant provided. Read more…

Ezra Levant is firing back at The Tyee after a satirical video featuring a puppet version of the Sun News network host and Ethical Oil spokesperson Kathryn Marshall rapping was published today.  Read more…

In a deal valued at $3.38 billion, it has been announced that Bell will acquire Astral Media, giving the largest telecommunications company in Canada a significant increase in French-language content in Quebec, putting it on par with Quebecor. Read more…

The only MLA to support Christy Clark's succesful bid to lead the British Columbia Liberal Party has resigned from cabinet. Read more…

Five years after B.C. passed its cutting-edge Climate Action Plan, an extensive reporting project on the results is getting a lot of attention in California and beyond. Read more…

Long after last May's federal election, the "robocalls" scandal suddenly returned to public attention late this week. It has stirred responses from bloggers, tweeters, and most political parties -- but not from the Conservative Party of Canada. Read more…

A majority of Canadians believe the federal government's Internet snooping bill should be defeated, according to an Angus Reid opinion poll released today. Read more…

Protesters are gathering outside Richmond's River Rock Casino this afternoon where Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is supposed to be attending a fundraising dinner, to speak out against Toews and Bills C-10, C-11, and C-30. Read more…

The Vancouver Police Department indicated yesterday its support of Bill C-30, the proposed online surveillance legislation that's generated much controversy across Canada. But at least one critic is calling the department's interpretation of the laws "misleading." Read more…

A prominent water scientist and climate change defender has apologized for using a fake identity to obtain sensitive documents from the Heartland Institute, an American think-tank which questions the scientific basis of global warming. Read more…

It's time for Vic Toews to resign, insists National Post editorial board member and columnist Matt Gurney today. That may dampen the laughs Toews claims he's enjoyed while reading tweets sent his way via #TellVicEverything, the crowd-sourced revolt intended to satirize and shame the Tories and Toews for introducing Internet snooping bill C-30. Read more…