BC loves its SUVs. SUVs kill children. You can't see them crossing the road. You can't stop as quickly. And god damn no one in Vancouver actually stops at intersections so the driver can see the stop line (not the cross walk line, the stop line). www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What does heterosexual sex, age and meth use have in common? Disseminated gonorrhoea! Which is when the bacterial infection spreads throughout the body. It can even infect the heart. www.catie.ca/catie-news/c...

Alberta is "cannibalizing" its voluntary treatment beds for involuntary treatment beds. This is very much a bad thing. Why take away beds from people who want treatment to force treatment on someone who doesn't want it? theijf.org/article/edmo...

"Trans visibility—particularly visibility of the messy, complicated, gender-fuckery of transness—makes the world a better and more open place. And we have to keep fighting for it, even when that fight feels next to impossible." HELL YEAH

After witnessing a man be detained & handcuffed by police, who also searched his bag, @michellegamage.bsky.social looked into what police can and can’t do when they detain, but don’t arrest someone thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...

Powerful piece of public service journalism by my colleague @michellegamage.bsky.social on @thetyee.ca today. Even if you never commit a crime, it's important to know your rights re police.

I saw police detain a man and search his backpack. After, when I asked the police what happened, I was told the man had been “arrestable” and therefore could be searched. That’s not a thing. Here’s a refresher on what police can and can’t do. Procedure is important. thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...

Science follows the money and, unfortunately, that means conditions that impact women's quality of life get ignored. Which is why we still know so little about bacterial vaginosis. thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...

This is an excellent visual breakdown of $1 trillion. My favourite bit is at the very end of the article, where it compares the seconds you took to read the article, and if you had $1 billion for each second you read, and how far you still are from $1 trillion. www.nbcnews.com/data-graphic...

ICYMI @thetyee.ca has a podcast now. Come hang with @harrisonmooney.bsky.social and I as we talk about icy groin towels and other ways to demand our governments actually keep us safe from the deadliest form of extreme heat. IT'S IMPORTANT. Keep each other safe out there. Okay love you all bye.

Home supports help seniors live independently in their community for longer. It reduces health-care costs and cuts government spending. So why aren't we fully covering it? My latest for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...

Beautiful and informative videos about HIV from a campaign working to reduce stigma and promote medication which can help infected people live long, healthy, normal lives and not pass an infection (even during unprotected sex). Science rules. So do these videos. startinghomefires.ca/index.html

Today at City Hall, a debate on whether or not landlords should be fined for prohibiting air conditioners. Trying to imagine the flipped arguments, if cold was killing hundreds of BCers and landlords were refusing to allow heat to be added the building. www.biv.com/biv-rss-link...

Oh my good god GUYS IT'S HERE. @thetyee.ca team has been working away on producing a pod and we're finally ready to release it into the world. From us to you! Because we love you. And also you begged The Tyee for this for years. YEARS. Please enjoy. open.spotify.com/show/033kxUJ...

Mayor Ken Sim and Clr Peter Meiszner say the proposed overdose prevention site at 900 Helmcken "is not appropriate for the neighbourhood." This is the area with the second highest death rate from unregulated drugs. If not here, where? link.lists.vancouver.ca/v/443/81f138...

Got a call back from VPD Sgt. Briscoe. He says the difference between being detained and arrested is "semantic" and that the man was "arrestable" for mischief based on a call about a suspicious person matching his description. Therefore police could cuff him, search his bag and let him go.

Follow up: the police released him, no charges. I took a video of VPD officers digging through his bag and then removing his handcuffs and letting him repack his backpack. Once the scene dispersed I approached the man, shared my contact info, and offered to share the video if he wanted it.

Watching a man be detained and handcuffed from my home office window. Four police officers (two squad cars) have put him in handcuffs and unpacked his entire, well-packed backpack. The man asked why he was being cuffed several times, to which the officer yelled that he was being suspicious.

On June 1, B.C.'s minimum wage will be raised to $18.25 an hour. This is still well below what it costs to live anywhere in the province, according to Living Wage BC www.livingwagebc.ca/living_wage_...

BC Nurses Union reaches tentative agreement with employer. Agreement will improve bennies, give a wage increase and access to enhanced mandate money, address workplace safety and violence prevention. emarchive.bcnu.org/csb/Public/s...

Hey fellow BCers. Do you have a family doctor? If you don't, are you signed up on the provincial registry to get one? It's free, takes five minutes. Get yer sweet butt on it, you deserve primary care. www.healthlinkbc.ca/find-care/he...

Snapshot into the silliness that goes into gov announcements sometimes: I'm speaking with a minister in an hour. About an announcement coming tomorrow. That's... about all I know. But I have only 10 minutes to speak with them. That's it. The topic is oceans. Maybe. Or water? I'll find out.

I've been getting wannabe politicians emailing me with campaigning emails about how they'll repeal SOGI and replace it with "age-appropriate learning." Just wanting to counter this dumbass statement by reminding everyone that the whole point of SOGI is that it is age-appropriate.

Concerns that health care workers who work around Hantavirus patients don't have to wear N95s. healthydebate.ca/2026/05/topi...

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

Attended a rally yesterday held in support of Francisco Barahona, who has lived in Canada for 15 years but doesn't have immigration status. He has cancer and is facing $400,000 in medical bills because he isn't covered by BC's MSP. Rally participants called on BC to give him status and MSP coverage.

This shit again. Since October, “U.S. Border Patrol officers have seized just six pounds (2.7 kilograms) of fentanyl along the Canadian border, and nearly 1,000 times as much along the border with Mexico (5,800 pounds, or 2,630 kilograms)." www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

Isn’t Sim currently being sued by city councillor Sean Orr after Sim claimed Orr was dealing drugs because AI told him so? Maybe I’m mixed up, but this seems like a bold statement while going through a defamation suit.

I'm going! So excited for this, hope to see you all there

Very good points on how we could communicate emergency alerts better. I support Amber Alerts, but I fully woke up to the 1 a.m. alarm thinking it was a notice for an imminent earthquake. Dead asleep to full panic mode in zero seconds. Took me hours (four) to get back to sleep.

Incredible feature by @emmaarkell.bsky.social. Are you horrified by America's brutal (and often illegal) so-called immigration crackdown? Then you should know what police in your own backyard are doing. It's not cool.

What would you say if you found out your neighbour of 15 years had cancer? What about if they were on the hook to pay for their entire cancer treatment? (Yes, we're talking about Canada here).

The Sanctuary Health Collective is organizing a vigil in support of Francisco May 13 (this Wednesday) at 5 p.m. near the BC Cancer building in Vancouver (corner of 10th Ave and Heather St).

I've been following Francisco for a couple months for @thetyee.ca as he has struggled to access health care following his cancer diagnosis. He's lived in Canada for 15 years, but doesn't have status. His family is worried they won't be able to pay for his chemo. thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

People living in remote communities have to individually traverse logging roads, highways, airports and unfamiliar cities to see a specialist. This creates barriers to accessing health care. Dr. Miles Marchand is breaking down barriers by brining specialist care to them. thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

If half of a highly technical science team gets laid off, how well do you think the work the team was doing can continue? DFO says it's fine. The people who built the salmon research lab, worked at the lab or collaborated with say otherwise. Me for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

DFO gutted a crucial, world-renowned salmon research lab. People who work for or collaborate with DFO said it was one of the only labs not captured by aquaculture. This could spell big problems as BC removes salmon farms from its coast. I get into it for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

Encouraging people to be mindful of the ways labour can exploit people is great. Expecting a busy server to be able to step in and save someone from human trafficking with three to five minutes of training is.. lofty, and maybe missing the mark. My latest for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

Should we respond to complex social issues with what makes the public feel better, or what actually helps the people being impacted by human trafficking long-term? I get into it for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

I am endlessly fascinated by how much the city of Vancouver pretends poop doesn't exist and then doesn't deal with it (ie. no public bathrooms in the city, especially in rich neighbourhoods). WHERE WILL THIS HOTEL DUMP ITS SEWAGE? vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/04/15/c...

"Social murder" is a good way to put it. If this many people were being killed by cars we wouldn't be blaming people for leaving their houses in the morning. We'd demand change. Stigma is killing people. Stigma says because people use drugs the deserve to die. That is so wrong on so many levels.

I highly recommend Garth's book! He takes readers through Vancouver's punk history and clearly explains how the drugs that once numbed outcast's pain quickly and horrifyingly slid into the overdose crisis of today, where thousands die annually. I learned so much from this page-turner.

A decade under a public health emergency and nearly tens of thousands dead is horrific. Catastrophic. Grotesque. Governments are meant to keep people safe. The BCNDP knows thousands are dying every year from unregulated drugs. They choose to not regulate the drugs. Today I am exhausted with grief.

B.C.'s death toll is nearly in the tens of thousands with no end in sight. Basically every expert I speak with these days says we need to regulate the drug supply. The BCNDP are not willing to consider that, despite many of their own experts calling for it. thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

Are you a Canadian with IBD? You could be eligible for scholarships! More deets here: crohnsandcolitis.ca/Support-for-...

A single accident can be a horrible one-off event. Consistent accidents in a single location is bad, dangerous civic design. We can do better. No one has to die on city roads, ever.

Big news! The incredible @sarahkcox.bsky.social has joined @thetyee.ca! And I'm going to get to work with her, J.B. MacKinnon, @akkabah.bsky.social and David Beers to cover biodiversity. I am so happy I cried a 'lil. Keep an eye out for marine-themed stories from me 🦈🪸🐋🐙🦐🦭 thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...

A thing that always rankles me about anti-vaxxers is the extreme privilege that comes with it. Not everyone is lucky enough to have access to vaccines or live in a society protected by vaccines. A measles outbreak in Bangladesh has infected 6,400 children and killed 98. go.ifrc.org/emergencies/...

We could use a probiotic built from healthy BC bat populations to protect local bats from a deadly fungal invader that causes a disease known as white-nose syndrome. But we have to act fast.

BC’s Free Contraceptives Program Has Been Hugely Successful. More people are using IUDs and hormonal implants now that cost isn’t an issue, by @michellegamage.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2026/04... via @thetyee.ca