Grocery store radio stations that still play The Wallflowers are keeping us all alive

What happened after Canadian journalist @rachelgilmore.bsky.social posted about the potential repercussions of Kirk’s murder: doxxing and violent threats thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

these are great fall outfits

Thanks to @thetyee.ca for republishing my @xtramagazine.com story this week on the media rush to link trans people to Charlie Kirk's death. "We now have to live in fear that this violent incident will further galvanize the wrong people." thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

The Weekender is here! Thanks to @dorothywoodend.bsky.social @amandafollett.bsky.social @harrisonmooney.bsky.social for your wonderful contributions this week. 🧵

ICYMI: @melwoods.me's recent Weekender essay on Big Protein is such a fun exploration of a weird trend. 💪 🥩 Editing this reminded me of the height of the Atkin's diet when I was a barista and made so many breva lattes and bread-less chicken paninis. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

people walking up to me on the street with tears in their eyes saying to me in voices cracked and heavy with emotion “dijon in The Tyee”

I sit across from @harrisonmooney.bsky.social, who loves to sing. And now Dijon is in @thetyee.ca 🔥 thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

"While it’s probably not fair to blame Vice for the current state of cultural chaos that we’re enjoying, they’re not innocent, either." This essay on a new documentary about Vice's questionable trajectory by @dorothywoodend.bsky.social is truly great. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

The Weekender is here! I'm proud to publish this feature by Emily Blatta, a former practicum student with us @thetyee.ca . She recently graduated from j-school and wrote this beautiful feature about crab fishers in the city. ☀️ thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

Great first hand account from the Globe's Ann Hui www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Palestinian families in Canada say they are watching their family members lose weight and sustain more injuries and displacement in Gaza while refugee applications sit with IRCC. They and advocates say the Canadian government's inaction on the file amounts to racism. thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

Bag of Herr’s Sour Cream & Onion ripple potato chips may be the move for Halloween 2025

VPD was aware of the intense public interest – and also of the “fear and anxiety” news of stranger assaults was causing in 2022. VPD issued at least 52 releases mentioning stranger assaults, but provided no updated data about the frequency of these crimes. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

Huge kudos to Andrew and Lisa for sticking with this story for months and showing how the VPD slow-walked FOI requests and requests for updated data. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

New from me today! This week is 10 years since Carly Rae Jepsen's "EMOTION" released in North America. I wrote about my upcoming wedding, Carly Rae Jepsen's upcoming wedding, and the joys of being cringe and in love xtramagazine.com/culture/carl...

“One of the challenges with doing that work is the hidden cost is never included..." Thanks to Andrea Smith for this feature on the state of repatriation efforts among First Nations in BC. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

I love this essay by University of Alberta professor Siobhan Byrne about navigating the return to "normal life" after cancer. I hope it's affirming for people who have walked similar paths. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

We love a guilty pleasure. Find out what @dorothywoodend.bsky.social, @isaacphannay.bsky.social, @michellegamage.bsky.social, @jenstden.bsky.social, @akkabah.bsky.social @tyolsen.bsky.social, Carla Pellegrini and I have been streaming in @thetyee.ca's Weekender. thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

“We need to get comfortable talking about cancer, a disease that touches just about all of our lives.”

Prison employees wanted to hire a different pest control company but the private facilities manager decided otherwise.

After the death of a janitor at Simon Fraser, her coworkers say the university, employer and union have all let them down. My latest for @thetyee.ca

My @thetyee.ca piece today on a BC Human Rights Commissioner talk about LGBTQ2S+ kids books being not only fun to read, but a necessity for all kids to access. thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

The memory of those who died building the railway through northern B.C. lives on at Dead Man’s Island.

“Bruno Mars exists in a liminal space — neither Black nor white, therefore free to move about the barrelhouses.”

The rise in punk and hardcore’s prevalence in Alberta is to create a voice against the UCP, says one vocalist. 🎤 #abpoli 

@dorothywoodend.bsky.social: The arts themselves have been forced into a battle for their very existence.

"He has become withdrawn and anxious, and the lack of proper food and a safe environment is making things worse by the day." Powerful piece by @jenstden.bsky.social on how people in Canada are struggling to get their family members out of Gaza. thetyee.ca/News/2025/08...

ICYMI: Me in @thetyee.ca this weekend on 2025 being the summer of slop (It’s about Lafufus, but also ~ not just ~ about Lafufus, you know)

“Labubu counterculture” is not a sentence I thought I would ever think this hard about but I am so invested in this, no thanks to our generation’s preeminent essayist @melwoods.me thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

For @thetyee.ca, I wrote about knock-off Labubus, AI garbage, and how 2025 is the summer of ~ slop ~ thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

The Weekender is here in @thetyee.ca! What a joy to work with @melwoods.me in publishing this essay on the busted queen of summer 2025, with art by Stella Zheng. 🌟 👹🧵 "In the midst of slop summer, Lafufu may not be the 2025 icon we asked for, but she is what we deserve." thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

“…but in this case a justified left display will likely obscure a Lafufu’s face” -me at work in 2025

"It’s women of colour and femme people of colour who most rely on PACE’s services, said Sekani Dakelth." On PACE's closure and what it means for sex workers by @michellegamage.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...

It's me. Same stuff, different place.

In the spirit of amplifying the perspectives of those with lived experience, we spoke to several people, adults now, who grew up in the system or whose families were at risk of entering the system, to find out their hopes for the future of caring for children. @tracysherlock.bsky.social reports.

Thanks @tracysherlock.bsky.social for this piece on the future of child services, as told by five people who grew up in the system, for @thetyee.ca today. 🌼https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/24/Former-Foster-Kids-Visions-Future/

"A lot of men have trouble with the idea of buying clothes based on joy, or self-fashioning, or looking good," @dieworkwear.bsky.social said when @harrisonmooney.bsky.social called him to talk performance tech for @thetyee.ca. My greatest achievement as an editor maybe thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

Something to celebrate. 🌸 Thanks @tracysherlock.bsky.social for this feature on an important program that covers post-secondary tuition for people who have been in foster care. thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...

Tyee senior editor @akkabah.bsky.social’s “Hearty” has been voted the #2 best local book by a qathet resident! 🤩🔖 Don’t miss @jackie-wong.bsky.social’s interview with the author on food and food systems. 🍨

"The ’70s-inspired mural in the hall leading to the changerooms evokes memories of ParticipACTION badges from grade school. The skylight floods the space with sunlight in summer and winter." thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

When I found out last week what Canada's finest word nerds were up to these days, I DROPPED EVERYTHING to write this column about Canadianisms and the pursuit of the first comprehensive, Canadian English Dictionary in over two decades

Hey that’s my friend @debbieohi.com ‘s book in the illustration!

Judge blocks Alberta's ban on gender-affirming health care for youth, says it would risks "irreparable harm" and psychological integrity to trans and gender-diverse youth. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is nice. Thank you, @newestpress.bsky.social @abbookpub.bsky.social <3 www.cbc.ca/books/richar...

Hey Bsky, I am a journalist looking to speak with US health-care workers (doctors, nurses, specialists) who are moving to Canada. I'm curious to hear what their experience is like getting visas, licensed, moving. Overall easy or bureaucratic nightmare? DMs are open, HMU.

It's the long weekend! What are you reading? Dive into 27 summer book recs from @akkabah.bsky.social @amandafollett.bsky.social @kehyslop.bsky.social @harrisonmooney.bsky.social @jenstden.bsky.social @dorothywoodend.bsky.social & me in @thetyee.ca's Weekender 📚🌻🧵 thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

“Hearty” by Tyee senior editor @akkabah.bsky.social has been shortlisted for the 2025 Taste Canada Awards in the Culinary Narratives category! 🍨✨ Senior editor @jackie-wong.bsky.social interviewed the author last year for The Tyee. Read on for a more generative approach to food, and food systems:

With a sharp rise in political hostility towards LGBTQ2S+ issues and a troubling rise in hate crime reports, many organizers say Pride is more important than ever. 🏳️‍🌈

As of today, we’ve heard from more than 2,000 of you in our new audience survey! Thank you so much for your insights! 💫💫 We’re closing it this Friday, and we hope to get to 4,000 responses. If you haven’t filled it out yet, you can do so here, or share it with the fellow Tyee readers in your life.