This is very nice. (It's also extremely valuable! The most valuable thing you can do for media is to financially support it. The second-most valuable thing you can do is to tell others you support an outlet and why.)

This was the article that finally pushed me to join @thetyee.ca Builders. Independent media outlets need community support. Love you forever, sis.

It’s so easy to read the wrong tone youtu.be/sngRrkQayDA?...

This is partly an social media dynamic, but also partly just a text-based dynamic. You can have conversations verbally with friends that you don't want to have by impersonal text b/c the latter both takes a ton more energy and brings a time delay that increases misunderstandings and personal angst

NEW: A barge hit an island on B.C.'s north coast last week, taking a large tree with it. The barge is owned by the same company as one that took on water and needed rescuing in November. @amandafollett.bsky.social in @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

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Ah yes. I am famously uninterested in Fraser Valley flood risks.

This and the discussion about how academics can now just read AI summaries of things really drives home how much these guys always confuse the product for the goal. You don't do a coloring sheet because you want to have a colored sheet at the end!!! The coloring is the point!!!

The Weekender is here in @thetyee.ca! 🎄 I feel very lucky to work with @dorothywoodend.bsky.social @akkabah.bsky.social and @tyolsen.bsky.social, and I love their essays this issue. 🧵

This is so cool. In awe of Cornelia and her colleagues.

Check out 'Photos: Freshet News brings a printed newspaper back to Burnaby, New Westminster and the Tri-Cities - Freshet News': www.freshetnews.ca/photos-fresh...

People are so weird. I funded my Patreon for years using bad art until it grew big enough that I could start commissioning better artists. It's fine. People are mostly nice and want to see Mola molas in little hats.

bah humbug thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

When I was up North a few weeks ago, I overheard a band meeting where First Nations officials were complaining that Carney had come to town and didn't meet them. That's what creates an impression that won't go away. Tofino, the canoe sheds comments - that killed Trudeau in Indian Country. 3

This is what happens when the Canadian brain drain becomes real. Somehow Canada's FOI/ATIP redaction staff seem to have ended up in the Trump administration.

This is a massive thing. And while you can blame journalists and the media, that's now how communications and activism works. Persuading people requires doing things within the conditions that exists, not the conditions you wish would exist.

ICYMI @tyolsen.bsky.social & @michellegamage.bsky.social rolled out a three-part series this week on hospital crowding in B.C. for @thetyee.ca — where we're at, why, and how it's affecting patients & staff. 1) thetyee.ca/News/2025/12... 2) thetyee.ca/News/2025/12... 3) thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

It is extremely depressing that basically no one in the thread or quote tweeting actually links to the piece. (Yes, appears real. Org has good cred.) www.city-journal.org/article/manh...

whenever i read about how popular tiktok is and about how people working in mass media need to be where the audience is, my mind melts away, and all that's left is that Principal Skinner meme where he knows that, no, it's the children who are wrong

STORY 👇👇👇👇👇 thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

Short answer: because of lots of old people and decisions that either ignored the aging population, or overestimated the system's ability to ramp up care in various parts of health care.

every fan in every sport seems to believe the league they watch most closely has uniquely bad referees who are worse than they were at some unspecified point in the past

There is a lot about the right's attack on trans issues to be concerned about, but at a high level I think it's really important to double down on how entirely fabricated it is. That's the case with women's sports, it's the case with kids getting lower surgery ... it's all hypothetical, not reality

The efficacy of posting different places has always depended both on your audience and the site's specific algorithms. Twitter was never great at a local news level even if larger pubs could get some stories to go viral and make it worth it. Twitter was good for journo networking.

It's long known the urban armies near Beijing wouldn't intervene & they had to resort to outside units, but this story of the gentle defiance of a general in the army that eventually carried the Tiananmen crackdown cuts deep. Gift link to NYT story. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/w...

Also it’s going to be really funny, as research confirms that it’s social media that is breaking politics, to see all the people who were scoffing at the idea and saying “it’s inflation, as everyone knows” turn around and say “of course it’s social media, everyone knows that”

like I find it grating to see people going “haha they can’t prove it was him!” when of course everyone knows it was him and that’s why you’re cheering for him. you like what he did. you think he’s a cool and good-looking murderer

I really didn’t think I’d be doing this story again in 2025, but here we are www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

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This is what I’ve seen so far. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Has anyone from the federal government said anything about the flooding in Abbotsford? I have yet to see anything.

Criticizing the courts is a lot like criticizing people who misread something you write or mishear something you wrote. Sure, maybe they could consider the context better or pay more attention. But probably, the fault mostly lies with you, the communicator (or the writer/administrator of the laws)

Absolutely delighted this morning to find a reference in some wire copy to "a mountain goat and her child." Somebody thought "kid" sounded too colloquial, I guess? 🥰

I only saw the pics from river level before but a) is that the headscarp way up the hill; 👀 b) if it really is, look at the way all the intermediate trees stayed upright!! 😱🤯

I’m a white male journalist born in 1984, and this sad tale doesn’t match my first-hand experience in media nor my observations. White men my age with real talent have largely flourished. I’ve also known some Andrews along the way.

The social media history of this 22 year old staffer is being blamed for the rift tearing B.C.’s far-right OneBC party asunder #bcpoli thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

Kori Schake: “The men who built this international order weren’t leftist college professors sitting around the faculty lounge. They were the people who had fought World War I and World War II and saw the damage of an unstable order.” www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/fea...

The OneBC + municipal politics overlap is pretty obvious: Stuff that seems "popular" online often either doesn't interest, or massively repulses, the broader public. Whey you don't understand that, you do dumb political things, like join a party like OneBC or donate $ to a local municipal shitposter

20 B.C. hospitals operated beyond 110 per cent capacity last year. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12... Reporting by @tyolsen.bsky.social and @michellegamage.bsky.social @thetyee.ca

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

This is the case across the field of writing based on existing public info. Unless you've got some real magic sauce you're using, the moment you can get AI to write X will be the moment everyone else can pay for the technology do so as well. And that instantly kills the economic case for doing so.

At the end of this piece, @tyolsen.bsky.social put together a giant datawrapper chart -- if you live in B.C., you can see where your local hospital(s) are faring, re: overcapacity.

Just awful. Story time: I went through a period where I was on some prescription meds and became volatile to the point I physically threatened my mother in my parents' kitchen. My dad came in and very calmly told me I wasn't myself. He talked me down and I burst into tears and hugged him.

Right now the Nooksack isn't expected to hit levels that would send more water north — though things can change.

“New data provided to The Tyee reveals that seven B.C. hospitals operated at more than 20 per cent over capacity last year.” Reporting by @michellegamage.bsky.social and @tyolsen.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

Confirmed. Westbound Highway 7 is a nightmare right now between Agassiz and Mission, but eastbound is smooth and takes about an hour. (So 130 or a little less Abbotsford to Chilliwack)

Over the holiday season The Tyee will run four excerpts from my new book "Cheapskate in Lotusland: The Philosophy & Practice of Living Well on a Small Budget." First excerpt up this weekend: In the Hall of the Triscuit King via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

This infrastructure includes telecoms stuff. In 2021, the Interior nearly lost all wireless Internet and 9-1-1 coverage.

However I got a chuckle going through the single lane section of highway 7 by Hope (the only route through at the time), and the crew cleaning up the rock slide consisted of one machine operator plus traffic control. Good job Derek, single handedly keeping the road to all of Canada open