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Culture Editor for The Tyee. Instagram animal:
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Take a Bow, Tyee Friends. You've Made a Big Difference via
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Take a Bow, Tyee Friends. You’ve Made a Big Difference | The Tyee
Our new impact report shows your support helped our non-profit newsroom grow and do more than ever.
https://thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/2025/09/17/Take-Bow-Tyee-Friends/
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The sixth anniversary of "Letters": September 15, 2025
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September 15, 2025
Six years ago, on September 15, 2019, after about a six-week hiatus during the summer, I wrote a Facebook post that started:
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/september-15-2025?r=5dx4fw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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The Socialists
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Guatemalan kids and much more: September 2, 2025
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September 2, 2025
In the early hours of Sunday morning, in the middle of a three-day holiday weekend, the Trump administration attempted to take children out of government custody and ship them alone to their country o...
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/september-2-2025?r=5dx4fw&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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Tis almost September, new clothes, new you.
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New Clothes, New You | The Tyee
Need to be convinced of the transformative power of clothing? Cue up sequences of back-to-school movie makeovers.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2022/09/06/New-Clothes-New-You/
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We love a guilty pleasure. Find out what
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,
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, Carla Pellegrini and I have been streaming in
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Whatcha Watching This Summer? | The Tyee
Enjoy these streamable picks from Tyee staff, and share your faves in the comments.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/08/15/Whatcha-Watching-This-Summer/
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: The arts themselves have been forced into a battle for their very existence.
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Trump Is Using Culture to Reshape Society | The Tyee
Here in Canada, we have a unique opportunity to fight back.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/08/08/Trump-Culture-Reshape-Society/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial_weekend_read
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Happy Tom Thomson Day!
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These two films as well.
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Two Films that Share a Vivid, Deep Understanding of the Oddness of the Human Experience | The Tyee
‘Toni Erdmann’ and ‘Moonlight’ highlights in a year of compelling, beautiful movies.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2016/12/21/Two-Films-Share-Human-Experience/?PageSpeed=noscript
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Looking forward to seeing this film again. Holy Moly, 'Holy Motors' via
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Holy Moly, 'Holy Motors' | The Tyee
Catch this moving, mournful, joyful film as it rips through Vancity and feel so alive!
https://thetyee.ca/ArtsAndCulture/2012/11/16/Holy-Motors/
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The Tyee
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It’s summer art season! Five standout shows in Vancouver best enjoyed in the heat of July. 🎨☀️
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Five Art Shows to Savour This Summer | The Tyee
Bonus: the galleries have air conditioning!
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/07/11/Five-Art-Shows-Savour-Summer/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial_weekend_read
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The Tyee
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“I was seven years old and far too young to see ‘Jaws.’ I was still completely obsessed with it.” 🦈
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How ‘Jaws’ Ate the Box Office | The Tyee
And changed Steven Spielberg’s life. A new documentary goes behind the scenes of a classic summer movie.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/07/04/Jaws-Turns-50/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial_weekend_read
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It's the long weekend! What are you reading? Dive into 27 summer book recs from
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@kehyslop.bsky.social
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@dorothywoodend.bsky.social
& me in
@thetyee.ca
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Twenty-Seven Great Books to Read This Summer | The Tyee
The Tyee’s 2025 summer reading list brims with humour, silliness and hope.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/06/27/Twenty-Seven-Summer-Reads/
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Adam Curtis - Individualism will disappear
YouTube video by Kyle
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Woo Hoo!!!!
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Shifty - A new series by Adam Curtis coming to BBC iPlayer in June 2025
Shifty shows, in a new and imaginative way, how over the past 40 years in Britain extreme money and hyper-individualism came together in an unspoken alliance
https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2025/shifty-new-series-by-adam-curtis-coming-to-bbc-iplayer-june-2025
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The Tyee
4 months ago
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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His Stop-Motion Photography Changed the World | The Tyee
Eadweard Muybridge helped us see with fresh eyes. Celebrated cartoonist Guy Delisle details his impact in a delightful new work.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/05/23/Stop-Motion-Photography-Changed-World/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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Curtis called it.
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Systems are crumbling - but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
If everything feels broken but strangely normal, the Soviet-era concept of hypernormalization can help
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/ng-interactive/2025/may/22/hypernormalization-dysfunction-status-quo
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Don't miss
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's paintings in this essay on the strange, often strained, relationships between art and money. 🐍
thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...
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When Money Shadows Art, What Do We Lose? | The Tyee
A dispatch from a sparkling gala and a community show reveals the tensions that have dogged the art industry for years.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/05/16/When-Money-Shadows-Art/
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Jackie Wong
4 months ago
The
@thetyee.ca
's Weekender is here! On the cover:
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interviews
@donnaseto.bsky.social
about her new book on Vancouver's Chinatown ahead of her May 24 talk at the VPL with
@ayan604.bsky.social
. ✨ 🧵
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Vancouver’s Chinatown Gets a Fresh Burst of Colour | The Tyee
Donna Seto’s illustrated history invites the next generation to see the neighbourhood in a new light.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/05/16/Vancouver-Chinatown-Gets-Fresh-Burst-Colour/
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A spring bouquet
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Happy Mother's Day!
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Song of the day: You're Going to Miss Me by the 13th Floor Elevators. They were the first band to use the term psychedelic rock. The only cool rock band with a jug player.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZClJ...
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NEW * You're Gonna Miss Me - The 13th Floor Elevators {Stereo} 1966
YouTube video by Smurfstools Oldies Music Time Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZClJYCZp1SI
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It’s Tuesday so that means another episode of WILDFIRE🔥 is out! Catch Episode 2 “In Our Backyard” tonight at 8pm on Knowledge Network, or stream it now at:
www.knowledge.ca/program/wild...
(available for free across Canada)
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Tate Modern: 25 jaw-dropping and unforgettable moments from the first 25 years
When the gallery opened in 2000, it transformed the artistic life of Britain – and the world. We look back at spiders, splinters, sexual dependency and sunsets
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/may/01/tate-modern-25-jaw-dropping-and-unforgettable-moments-from-the-first-25-years
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I’m excited to finally share what we’ve been working on the last few years… Catch the series premiere of WILDFIRE🔥 tonight at 8pm on Knowledge Network or stream it now at
www.knowledge.ca/program/wild...
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RJ Aquino: “It’s not lost on us and our team that the spirit of the festival was about that resistance, that courage, that resilience, that strength. And we’re going to have to call that up in ourselves.” Thank you
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Reeling from ‘the Darkest Day in Our City’s History’ | The Tyee
Summoning ‘resilience,’ Vancouver’s Filipino community grapples with unimaginable grief.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/04/27/Darkest-Day-Our-City-History/
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These guys got the first living footage of the Indonesian coelacanth! Amazing work.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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First record of a living coelacanth from North Maluku, Indonesia - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - First record of a living coelacanth from North Maluku, Indonesia
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In ‘Wildfire,’ A Brave Portrait of Human Strength | The Tyee
A stunning new series takes us to the frontlines of BC’s climate crisis.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/04/25/Wildfire-Brave-Portrait-Human-Strength/
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Just heard on Belgium's Radio One. Been a long time.
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Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers - Egyptian Reggae • TopPop
YouTube video by TopPop
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The Tyee
5 months ago
“The infrastructure that has underpinned action films for decades is shaky, along with the portrayal of Americans as the perpetual good guys.” 🎥
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An Action Movie? In This Political Climate? | The Tyee
The world is changing fast, and a rift is growing between our garbled reality and life in the movies.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/04/18/Action-Movie-In-this-Political-Climate/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial_weekend_read
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Katja De Bock 🔛 CIFF Calgary
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❤️ HAPPY CANADIAN FILM DAY! ❤️
#CANFILMDAY
#StreamCanadian
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In Rural Canada, CBC Brought Us the World | The Tyee
It sparked the careers of many artists. Now as the election nears, we risk losing it.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/04/11/Rural-Canada-CBC-Brought-World/
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only canadians will understand this
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Is There Hope for America? Heather Cox Richardson Thinks So | The Tyee
The time is now to band together, says the celebrated historian and writer. A Tyee interview.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/04/04/Hope-America-Heather-Cox-Richardson/
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Michelle Gamage
6 months ago
Today is Qingming, the traditional Chinese day of honouring the dead. Also known as Tomb-Sweeping Day, it's a day to visit your ancestor's resting place, share a picnic and leave treats for your loved ones. My always wonderful colleague
@bychrischeung.bsky.social
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thetyee.ca/Culture/2019...
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On Qingming, My Family Tidies the Graves | The Tyee
You won’t see the day on many western calendars. For me, it’s a day of memories, tears and laughter.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2019/04/05/Qingming-Family-Tidies-Graves/
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR)
6 months ago
April 1, 2025
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April 1, 2025
Today Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) made history.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-1-2025
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A legend.
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Sherrilyn Ifill
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Well done
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Marsha Lederman
6 months ago
So very sad to report that Alma Lee, longtime artistic director of the Vancouver Writers Fest, has died.
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Alma Lee, who founded Vancouver Writers Fest, dies at 84
Always in the front row, Lee leaves the legacy of a literary festival with an esoteric-but-accessible vibe
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-alma-lee-who-founded-vancouver-writers-fest-dies-at-84/
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The Tyee
6 months ago
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: To be blunt, it’s not very fun living through history. But documentaries are useful for context and even a grim comfort.
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Four Films to Help the World Make Sense | The Tyee
History is like jazz, retracing what came before.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/03/28/Documentaries-Make-Sense-World/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial_weekend_read
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Looking for Election Insights? Join 'The Run' via
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Looking for Election Insights? Join ‘The Run’ | The Tyee
Sign up and twice a week you’ll get The Tyee’s free, prize-winning newsletter on the federal battle.
https://thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/2025/03/24/The-Run-Newsletter-Federal-Election-2025/
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Katja De Bock 🔛 CIFF Calgary
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🎬 7,000+ films, 86 years, 11 Oscar®-winning films, and counting. The National Film Board of Canada has been dedicated to promoting, preserving, and reflecting the Canadian sense of self through stories.
#StreamCanadian
for free on
NFB.ca
and NFB Films app. 🍿
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Shawn Micallef
6 months ago
This should be the end of every discretionary trip to the States by Canadians & every other national.
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Katja De Bock 🔛 CIFF Calgary
6 months ago
When a Canadian filmmaker born in Norway reflects on her teenage years in Kenya… you get MAYBE ELEPHANTS! 🐘✨ Stream Torril Kove's latest award-winning hommage to family and memories for free today (in Canada) →
bit.ly/MaybeElephants
A Mikrofilm and
#NFB
co-production.
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Maybe Elephants
A family is forever changed by a spontaneous move across the globe. From Oscar®-winning animator Torill Kove (The Danish Poet), Maybe Elephants is an autobiographical ode to family, …
http://bit.ly/MaybeElephants
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The Tyee
6 months ago
“Films that portrayed women as evil... ended with the bad woman being killed. I was thinking [the bad woman] is who I want to be.”
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‘There Is an Urgency to These Conversations’ | The Tyee
Elizabeth Sankey’s film on postpartum mental health arrives at just the right time.
https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/03/14/Elizabeth-Sankey-Witches-Postpartum-Mental-Health/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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George Monbiot
6 months ago
It's clear that Trump's policies seek to shut down what remains of democracy in the US. It seems highly likely that they will also cause economic collapse.
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Dethroning Congress
America First Has a Playbook
https://firstbranchforecast.substack.com/p/dethroning-congress
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