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“Yintah,” a film about Wet'suwet'en residence to the Coastal GasLink pipeline, has won best feature-length documentary at the Canadian Screen Awards. Read all about the film in this Tyee Q&A from last year.

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Throughout the four decades of her artistic practice, Anishinaabe artist Rebecca Belmore has created works that challenge the operations, structures and processes of the galleries, museums and other institutional structures in which they circulate. #TyeePresents #Sponsored

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“Being a loyal member of Team Trump is like sitting beside a flatulent French bulldog, repeating, ‘My dog did not fart. It must have been you.’” @steveburgess53.bsky.social advises. #uspoli #cdnpoli

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Premier Danielle Smith often cites Quebec when she talks about her plans to increase Alberta’s autonomy from Ottawa, especially when she is in full oratorical flight before a partisan crowd. @charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports. #abpoli

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While Alberta said it identified multiple books with sexually explicit and inappropriate content in school libraries, it has so far named only four coming-of-age graphic novels. Three of four focus on LGBTQI2S+ characters and themes. @brettmckay.bsky.social reports.

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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. 🌟

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Mountain top removal coal mines in the historic Crowsnest Pass present a clear and present danger to downstream fish populations even decades after their closure, according to a new scientific paper funded by the government of Alberta. Andrew Nikiforuk writes.

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“The best definition of a river I’ve been able to conjure up in my own mind is a gathering that seeks the sea.” 🌊

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“I really wanted to show the people living, being, doing things on the lands, on the waters, and allow the viewer to have a strong sense that we continue to use and occupy our lands.” #TyeePresents #Sponsored

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If you were to approach David Connell — an encounter likely to take place at a Prince George local farmers market — and ask him to name one thing that would make the world a better place, his answer would be simple. “It would be to change the food system, to make the food system more localized.”

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At the B.C. legislature’s first session since the NDP’s narrow election win in October, government house leader Mike Farnworth was unapologetic about the controversy over new laws aimed at accelerating development. Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli

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When Jacob Reaume, pastor of Waterloo’s Trinity Bible Chapel, speaks to his congregation, the better world he conjures includes Canada being annexed by the United States. 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Donald Gutstein writes.

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“Does still lurking on X make me complicit in its owner’s aims? I’m not sure it does, but I’m also not confident it doesn’t.”

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“The combination of music and narrative is a powerful one-two punch that can bowl you over.” 🎶

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The 40th anniversary of the Vancouver International Jazz Festival kicks off summer this June 20 to July 1! 🎶

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Robert F Kennedy Jr.’s recent uninformed comments on autism are deeply worrisome due to their reminder of dangerous ideas espoused during the eugenics movement. Cornelia Schneider and Martha Walls write.

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Because mental health care is inaccessible for many, it might seem less pressing to question its systemic bias. But what if that bias forms part of why we’re facing a mental health-care crisis in the first place? Seren Friskie’s experience has led her to think about this question.

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“Ecosystems are very complex, and if you disturb even just one component of an ecosystem, you do oftentimes see cascading effects within that ecosystem.” 🌱

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Residents in Vancouver’s affluent Kitsilano neighbourhood waged a fierce three-year legal and political battle against a planned supportive-housing development on city-owned land. They won. @jenstden.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli

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It will be the three-year anniversary of the RCMP’s investigation of former UCP justice minister Kaycee Madu for obstruction of justice, despite being a “fairly straightforward case.” In an emailed statement, the RCMP did not address what is taking so long. @charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports.

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“This is not just about dollars. This is about children’s right to a quality public education.”

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Canada is about to become a foot soldier in Donald Trump’s transcontinental war on drugs, despite the complete failure of that strategy wherever it has been attempted. Geoff Meggs writes. #uspoli #cdnpoli

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Canada is in the middle of the largest measles outbreak it has seen in generations. Despite the spread, B.C. is not considering making measles immunization mandatory for attending school, as it is in Ontario and New Brunswick, the Health Ministry told The Tyee. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports.

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Experts: During the pandemic, global supply chain breakdowns exposed the risks of relying on international sources for essential vaccine production. Expanding Canada’s domestic RNA vaccine capacity is more than just a scientific priority; it’s a public health imperative and economic opportunity.

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For many, home ownership — often a symbol of success and linked to opportunities like starting a family or growing your wealth — has become a distant dream. Expert Yushu Zhu writes. 🏘

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There’s never a bad time for a scandal-ridden right-wing government like Alberta’s United Conservative Party to try to gin up a moral panic over books with dirty pictures in school libraries. @djclimenhaga.bsky.social writes. #abpoli

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B.C. has reactionary policies that kick in when an employee’s core temperature hits 38 C. A fever is generally considered to be 38 to 39.9 C. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports. 🌡 #bcpoli

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Danielle Smith, a vaccine skeptic and disease contrarian, has worked hard to make her province a burgeoning measles republic. Andrew Nikiforuk writes. #abpoli

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@soniafurstenau.bsky.social: It’s not just the NDP government — and private industry — we’re being asked to trust. This bill would also empower cabinet to give authority to industry hired professionals and sidestep existing government processes and oversight. #bcpoli

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A great Cory Doctrow interview in the Tyee. 'The Internet Sucks.' Cory Doctorow Tells How to Fix It via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

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@steveburgess53.bsky.social: Once upon a time Trump said he would build a wall and Mexico would pay for it. Now he says he’s building a golden dome. Whatever. Why pick a fight with a delusional dung beetle? Just say yes. It’s Trump Management 101. #uspoli #cdnpoli

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In an announcement Monday, B.C. Premier David Eby signalled the intention to attract as much as $30 billion in mining investment to the northwest of the province by working in partnership with First Nations. #bcpoli

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The Alberta Energy Regulator refused to answer questions about a meeting between its senior execs and reps of Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart’s Northback Holdings Corp. held less than a month before the regulator granted permission to do work on the controversial Grassy Mountain project.

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Is there hope for the artist amid the explosion of AI and non-stop enshittification of platforms we used to rely on for building our brand? Cory Doctorow told us what he thinks Mark Carney should do. In the meantime, what should we do? @harrisonmooney.bsky.social interviews.

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In 2003, the BC Liberals passed a law that let it fast-track “significant projects” and bypass the normal approval process. The NDP of 2003 had strong feelings about the legislation. But it had much in common with today’s #Bill15, introduced by the NDP itself. @zoeyunker.bsky.social reports.

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Don't miss Tyee culture editor @dorothywoodend.bsky.social in conversation with celebrated graphic novelist Guy Delisle at the Vancouver Public Library May 27. Event details here!

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It is tempting to think that Mark Carney is something of a political superman. But can Superman scale the tall building of actually governing — with all its problems and pitfalls both foreseen and unexpected? Michael Harris writes. #cdnpoli

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Despite being illegal, British Columbia companies routinely suppress claims of workplace injuries. And the offences are rarely investigated or punished. #bclab #bcpoli

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Cory Doctorow spoke to The Tyee at length about platform decay, printer ink, the enshittification of cyberspace and how to stop Big Tech and techno-fascists from downloading their digital dystopia into the physical world. @harrisonmooney.bsky.social interviews.

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Prince Rupert’s port is testing self-driving trucks, The Tyee has learned. But unions fear job losses and safety threats.

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“A novel for the ages, ‘The Book of Records’ is both timely and timeless in the way only one writer could achieve.” #TyeePresents #Sponsored

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“‘Muybridge’ is a wondrous book that dives into the birth of cinema, animation and movement itself.” 🐎✍️

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“I’ve been typing this way for about two years,” I say. “I’ve been typing this way for about tears,” the computer writes.

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“My entire youth, my entire life actually, is defined by what records I was listening to at that time.” 🎶

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We take a closer look at what experts say about ostriches, antibodies and controlling an avian flu outbreak. 🐦

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Young Joe: Even when professional interpreters like me are available, we are sometimes turned away, and bilingual staff — often nurses or unit clerks — are pulled in to interpret instead. But when we cut corners like this, critical nuances are missed.

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Canada needs a federal minister responsible for the prevention of violent crime, supported by a deputy minister with no other responsibilities. The successes in other countries suggest this approach could reduce serious crime by 50 per cent in the next five years, write two experts.

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“Our Chiefs are frustrated, upset and feel betrayed. At one swipe of the pen, the premier can cut all of this off to the fall, and that’s what we’re calling for — to kill the bill.” #bcpoli

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Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco’s blended masterpiece of nightmare colour and imagery placed their comic book avatars in the ruins and carnage of Gaza. And then something strange happened — or rather didn’t happen. Tom Sandborn writes.

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Appreciate @thetyee.ca and @michellegamage.bsky.social taking the time to provide a detailed look at the cross border hate tactics affecting trans folks and, more recently, gender affirming care providers.

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