A Vancouver school board trustee is disappointed after her motion to improve transparency was amended to allow private board meetings at the school board’s discretion and to delete public recordings of meetings after one year. @kehyslop.bsky.social reports. #bced #vanpoli

Saving a life is more important than policing small amounts of drug use, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled last month. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports. #canpoli #ToxicDrugCrisis

@djclimenhaga.bsky.social: It sure sounds as if Premier Smith’s UCP will soon rip a page from the book of Depression-era Social Credit premier William Aberhart and repeal the province’s recall legislation as soon as possible, now that it’s being used against UCP MLAs. #abpoli

@steveburgess53.bsky.social: The main thing is that by participating in the Eurovision Song Contest, we will indicate Canada is turning toward Europe and away from Trump’s America. We do not join in on “51st State of Mind.” Our tune is more like “50 Ways to Leave Your Neighbour.” 🎤🎶

To say @avilewis.ca is having a busy fall would be an understatement. Our labour reporter @isaacphannay.bsky.social interviewed the NDP leader candidate. #canpoli #canlab

Politically engaged Albertans have spent a lot of time debating the popularity of the Alberta independence movement lately. But there’s an important difference between popularity and acceptability. Samuel Goertz writes. #abpoli

Speak plainly. Organize. Show up. After their worst-ever results in the 2025 federal election, here’s what the NDP can learn from Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign in New York City — which he officially won last night. From July 2025. #canpoli #uspoli #ZohranMamdani

All that red ink makes an easy target for deficit hawks like Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. Michael Harris writes. #CanPoli #Budget2025

Infants younger than six months old get hit the hardest with respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, making up almost half of all patients hospitalized for the illness in Canada, according to a new study. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports.

With so much on the line, the new federal government has tabled a budget that in many ways could pass as a Conservative budget, write David Macdonald and Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood. #CanPoli

The federal Liberals’ new budget proposes to cut about 10% of government jobs over the next four years to bring the public service to a “sustainable size” — reneging on its election promises. @isaacphannay.bsky.social reports. #CanPoli

From Nov. 7-10, the 2025 Modulus Festival invites audiences to explore the future of music through performances, art installations, workshops and social gatherings. #TyeePresents #Sponsored

One of the most important moments in the life of The Tyee occurred on a spring day in 2004. Tom Barrett, having wrapped his long career as a reporter for the Vancouver Sun, said he’d like to try writing for this digital startup not yet six months old. Editor David Beers writes.

@djclimenhaga.bsky.social: Now that Premier Smith’s favourite autocrat appears to be on the brink of transforming himself from “peace candidate” to war president, it would behoove folks in Wild Rose Country to remember why U.S.-imposed regime change in Venezuela is bad news for Alberta. #abpoli

The subtext to PM Carney’s apology is clear, writes Stewart Prest. “Sorry Ontario accurately described Ronald Reagan’s stand on free trade, Mr. President. We understand those words challenged your version of the truth, which is unacceptable.” #canpoli #uspoli

@steveburgess53.bsky.social: For this malady there is no proven cure. There is only the knowledge that on one day each year, at last, the pain will cease. The team will lose, and the journey will be over. And then comes spring training. ⚾️

“We may be living through a slow-moving immune decline crisis.”

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"But we do have prevention tools: clean indoor air, high-quality respirator masks, testing and smart avoidance of exposure. Vaccination won’t stop transmission, but it still helps reduce severe acute disease. The tools are here. The question is: why we are choosing not to use them?"

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"The risk to our country is not that Canadians will be too cautious in embracing AI, but that our government will act too rashly, tying our democracy, prosperity, security, sovereignty and collective well-being to a questionable product and its reckless promoters."

"It would appear Solomon, and Carney, for that matter, have swallowed the marketing pitch of technology companies in a misguided pursuit of economic growth. In so doing, they have inexcusably ignored the glaring threats posed to Canada’s sovereignty and security, and the well-being of its citizens."

The projected cost of a $100-million water pipeline stretching more than 50 kilometres from the Peace River to drought-stressed Dawson Creek is nearly five times greater than what the city received in property tax revenue last year. Ben Parfitt writes. #bcpoli

The city wants to see an end to the rodent-related cemetery vandalism — and rumours that marmots are digging into caskets. @tyolsen.bsky.social reports. 🐿️⚰️

“No one is taking any responsibility for international students. That’s why they seem to fall through the cracks.” #CanEd #BCEd

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government is ramping up its drive for AI glory while deepening an alignment with Canada’s own “tech bros” movement. Christopher Holcroft writes. #canpoli

When buying books, you can’t always tell if you’re supporting Canadian businesses. But the Certified Canadian Publisher program is changing that. 📚🇨🇦

In the spirit of spooky season, @dorothywoodend.bsky.social has collected a bevy of terrifying notions that will haunt your nightmares. 🐐🇺🇸🦠

“We’re the only animal that knows we’re going to go extinct and knows what has to be done, and we’re not doing it.” 🌎

“I wanted to [delve] into fear in a way that felt like the book saying, ’yeah, sometimes scary stuff happens, and how do we feel about that?’” 🕷️

Workers at the only unionized Amazon warehouse in Canada sat down Thursday to negotiate a contract for workers. @isaacphannay.bsky.social reports. #bclab #canlab

Special thanks to @sarahkrichel.bsky.social for introducing me, an elder millennial, to the world of cat soap operas for this essay on AI slop nostalgia and how the recent past feels quaint now 🥹 thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

“As my fingers sank into the rich, moist soil, I did my best to ignore the stinging insects and tried to revel in the sights and sounds of spring.”

If you think the #COVID19 pandemic is done and ever-evolving variants pose no significant threat, consider these two realities, writes contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk.

Don’t bet on John Rustad going away any time soon, despite the B.C. Conservative party chaos and his leadership failures, writes @pwillcocks.bsky.social. #bcpoli

“I feel concerned any time that there is a downloading of taxes onto small businesses and onto people,” said B.C. Finance Minister Brenda Bailey.

“Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan” remains the most critically despised entry in a series, synonymous with every criticism of “shot-in-Vancouver” films: cheap, cheesy and obviously set someplace else. Where did things go wrong? Sam Wiebe writes. 🔪

Former PC deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk arrived at Elections Alberta’s Edmonton office Tuesday with 61 boxes of petition forms. Who’s laughing now? @djclimenhaga.bsky.social writes. #abpoli

Premier David Eby says that if a key bill aimed at speeding construction of the North Coast Transmission Line fails to pass in the legislature, he’s willing to call an early election. Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli

The United Conservative Party government recently awarded a $95-million settlement to the Australian mining firm Montem Resources. About a third of that settlement will go to an investment firm in Melbourne. The same firm that funded Montem’s lawsuit against Alberta. Andrew Nikiforuk writes.

What to do with Canada Post? It’s a question that’s out of the government’s hands until next month. On Sept. 25, Ottawa gave Canada Post CEO Doug Ettinger 45 days to come up with a plan to bring the Crown corporation back from the brink. @isaacphannay.bsky.social reports. #canlab

“In order to turn the page to become a new and free country, Alberta has to ditch the things that are Canadian that exist in Alberta right now,” said Bruce Pardy, the exec director for Rights Probe, at a right-wing political conference in Calgary. 🚫🇨🇦 #abpoli

From insufficient funding to systemic racism to the decline of math and reading scores to “behavioural issues,” there are regions that do better than B.C. — and other jurisdictions that look to the province as a guiding light. @kehyslop.bsky.social reports. 🎒 #BCEd

While fans may have felt the effects of sleep deprivation at work the following day, for the athletes playing in the most important games of their careers, sleep loss could make or break their shot at winning the world’s biggest baseball championship. @amandafollett.bsky.social reports. ⚾️🛌

Want to ease the burden of health-care costs, and especially hospitalization? Easy. Just spend whatever it costs to provide all Canadians with free vaccinations — for life. @crof.bsky.social explains. 🏥 #BCCovid

The Vancouver Official Development Plan is in many ways a well-crafted vision for a more equitable, sustainable and inclusive city. But it rests on the unproven assumption that simply building more housing will lead to affordability for ordinary wage earners, writes Patrick Condon. #vanpoli

can a psychiatrist tell me why 'meow meow meow _meeeow_' invokes unironic nostalgia in me for the days of innocent, time-passing tech use? gen AI used to be slop, now it's normalized at best and indiscernible at worst. I wrote about why that's terrifying for @thetyee.ca's Weekender edition 😿💻

“As generative AI becomes more realistic, my ability to tell what’s real isn’t vanishing as much as it’s transforming into a paranoia,” @sarahkrichel.bsky.social writes.🤖

Overreach, anyone? #abpoli

It hasn’t always been obvious when buying a book meant investing in a Canadian business. The Certified Canadian Publisher program is a bid to change that. 📚🇨🇦 #TyeePresents #Sponsored