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  The Alberta government is moving forward with its plan to merge health-care numbers with government-issued identification and proof-of-citizenship. #abpoli https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/06/30/Alberta-ID-Card-Heightens-Privacy-Risks/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  LNG Canada is asking for permission to continuously flare vastly more natural gas than its current permit allows, The Tyee has learned. #canpoli https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/06/23/Kitimat-LNG-Plant-Flaring-Permit-Increase/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  Even though North American citizens have increasingly rejected or imposed moratoriums on data centres in their communities, the Smith government hasn’t said a word about the liabilities. Enter Brad Stelfox, the province’s most prominent land use ecologist. Andrew Nikiforuk writes. #abpoli https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/06/30/Alberta-Wilful-Blindness-AI-Centre-Harms/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  Ahead of the municipal vote across B.C. Oct. 17, voters need to see commitment from local governments to address intimate partner violence, say advocates. Meg Collins reports. https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/09/28/Municipal-Candidates-Intimate-Partner-Violence/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  "One of the big questions plaguing experts for years: why are there so few baby sturgeon?" Grace Kennedy reports on the extraordinary local effort underway to rescue an ancient species from the brink of extinction. 🌊 https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/09/25/Endangered-Nechako-River-Sturgeon-Need-Help-Making-Babies/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  How does The Tyee keep knocking it out of the park year after year, you ask? The answer is you. 🫵 In 2025 alone, 11,310 individuals supported The Tyee through its Builders program. https://thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/2026/09/23/Tyee-Friends-Big-Difference-Again/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  Premier David Eby sent British Columbia into a snap election today, just two years into the NDP’s mandate and as the fractured opposition parties move quickly to organize themselves into a viable alternative. https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/09/22/David-Eby-Calls-Snap-Election-Political-Opposition-Scrambles/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  Labour groups are warning about new Liberal changes coming to a little-known section of the Canada Labour Code that the government has used to try and end several high-profile strikes. https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/09/22/Unions-Slam-Liberals-Federal-Labour-Code-Changes-Section-107/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  As B.C. Premier David Eby prepares for a likely election call, what’s next for the province’s fractured right-wing opposition? Paul Willcocks writes. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/09/22/After-Findlay-What-Comes-Next/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  "'North of North’s commitment to making a beautiful show serves several functions. Identity is one of them. Pride is another. But there’s also something else at work." Dorothy Woodend reviews an excellent new comedy now streaming on APTN and CBC. 🧡 https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/09/18/North-of-North-Subversive-Charmer/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  In the summer of 1986, Michael Jeffrey invited the ghost of Adrian Marsters back to Savary Island, where he was part of a crew that "discovered" the island in 1792. 👻 Keili Bartlett writes. https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/09/18/Savary-Islanders-Imported-Ghost/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  What if we were to treat affordable housing as economic infrastructure, competing with pipelines and ports? It’s a comparison that reflects housing’s actual importance to overall economic output and productivity, Ernest Lang writes. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/09/17/Affordable-Housing-Nation-Building-Strategy-Nobody-Can-Tariff/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  Jim Stanford: “This claim of interprovincial subsidization is completely false. Alberta pays no money to Quebec, or to any other province. The Alberta government, like other provinces, receives huge transfers from Ottawa to help pay for health care and other programs.” https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/09/15/Alberta-Does-Not-Subsidize-Rest-Canada/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  Sports broadcasts are full of betting ads. “As a public policy researcher, I know how problem gambling can lead to serious issues — financial and otherwise — especially among men and boys. As a parent, I know my son is influenced by what he sees on TV,” Renze Nauta writes. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/08/06/Governments-Gambling-Canadians-Well-Being/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  A wave of single-room occupancy hotel foreclosures in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is sparking fears of mass evictions by the new owners and the loss of hundreds of housing units serving vulnerable renters. https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/08/06/Vancouver-SROs-Changing-Hands/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  The B.C. premier’s slumping personal popularity suggests that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new pipeline project with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been a net negative for Eby, despite broad support for the proposal among voters. Geoff Meggs writes. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/08/06/Can-Eby-Manage-NDP-Divisions-LNG-Pipelines/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  Prolonged drought conditions are forcing British Columbia’s fire tacticians to rethink how they battle blazes in the province’s dry and hot Interior. https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/08/06/Forests-Burn-BC-Changing-Tactics/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  Sue Brown, the lawyer who represented Tatyanna Harrison’s family, said the information from the inquest “merits a swift and decisive response by all the ministries whose actions and processes were implicated in the failures that came to light.” https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/07/31/Public-Safety-Minister-Tatyanna-Harrison-Inquest/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  More than 200 years ago, agriculturalists and workers used the phrase “burnt out” to describe fertilizer kilns, fuel, matches, fires and the consequences of excessive work. Nathan TeBokkel writes. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/07/30/Workplace-Burnout-Centuries-Old/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  Summer has now become fire season for many B.C. residents and travellers. It’s why authorities urge having access to local emergency information channels — and why it’s important to do so when fire breaks out and time is of the essence. https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/07/30/Emergency-Apps-Wildfire-Season/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  “Did Danielle Smith really believe her re-election fairy tale in 2023, or was she deceiving us?” David J. Climenhaga writes. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/07/30/Smith-Brazenly-Broke-Promise-Health-Care/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  Despite the proposed pipeline’s potential economic benefits, it faces major financial, environmental and political risks that could determine whether it delivers the returns its backers promise. Eric Chi writes. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/07/29/New-West-Coast-Pipeline-Big-Hurdles/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  For many good reasons, Canadians are more inclined to look on today’s United States not with envy but with a mix of defiance and pity. Michael Harris writes. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/07/29/Trump-Slags-Canadians/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  A one-time NDP MLA has lost her bid for an exemption from B.C.’s two-year cooling-off period for former public office holders who make the jump to lobbying. https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/07/29/Former-NDP-MLA-Wait-Start-Lobbying/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  There’s a century’s worth of science behind these simple signs that denote different fire danger levels. And the fire risk they communicate affects how people live and work in B.C. https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/07/29/Science-BC-Fire-Danger-Ratings/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  The Drug User Liberation Front’s constitutional challenge wrapped up Friday, but co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum won’t know until next year whether their efforts to save lives will land them in jail. Michelle Gamage reports. #vanpoli https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/07/27/DULF-Founders-Drug-Law-Charter-Challenge-Ends/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  There are little-discussed, key positives to the “Canada-British Columbia Partnership on Condo Conversion” program proposed in June. Ernest Lang writes. #canpoli #bcpoli https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/07/27/Rent-to-Own-Can-Work/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  This spring, surveillance pricing for groceries hit a nerve for Canadians, sparking a flurry of headlines and policy action. Sarah-Louise Ruder writes. #canpoli https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/07/27/Canadians-Want-Surveillance-Pricing-Banned/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  Carbon capture, utilization and storage, or CCUS, is turning out to be a perfect example of what the social critic Jacques Ellul called the “technological bluff.” Andrew Nikiforuk explains. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/07/27/Calling-Carney-Carbon-Capture-Bluff/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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  In his latest book, Toronto-born science fiction author and tech critic @pluralistic@mamot.fr argues that AI will make us all reverse centaurs, or assistants to machines, if it succeeds. 🤖Crawford Kilian writes. https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/07/24/Cory-Doctorow-Predicts-AI-Bubble-Will-Burst/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial