*whispers* Apply for a journalism job in a non-big-city market *runs away*

From time to time, news organization leaders should look around and ask: Do our stories reflect the current state of political discourse? Do our segments represent the voices of all voters?

The concrete was still probably more elegant entering the water than I am

Here's the biggest PSE story you haven't heard yet: the Canada Student Grant for low-income students is being cut from $4200/year to $3000/year as of next August. It's implicit in the budget tables but the government is too chickenshit to actually say so directly.

Incredible map of all the roads. Shows how BC is so unique -- and how some important transportation links do not have a ton of redundancy. (On account of the mountains.)

Only as I prepared to head to Merritt to take photos of the cemetery in question did I learn my own grandpa was buried in the marmot-ravaged graveyard.

Also, I found @nationalobserver.com's Civic Searchlight tour quite helpful for this story. Beyond everything else, it's a quick and easy way to get to the right spot in a council video. civicsearchlight.nationalobserver.com

This is it on a few levels. The prospect of death is the animating force of life. And the fact the team you support could lose, it what makes watching sports pleasurable.

STORY: Merritt loved its marmots. Then they were accused of robbing graves at the city's cemetery. My latest on rodents, dog-trampling deer, and park-defiling geese: thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

there will come a day when there are no more presses, and I will miss them. beautiful machines, beautiful to hold a newspaper in your hands. digital isn’t and has never been the same.

Well this is awkward

Every single play over the last 30 minutes of this game has had the same vibe as the "two people wrestling for a gun and then it fires and you don't know who was shot" movie trope.

Yamamoto is like when you get past the final boss and there is an even bigger boss waiting.

Real final boss stuff here with Ohtani third up

More like Bo Bash-it, amirite

I got holes drilled in my skull, electrodes inserted in my brain and connected to a pacemaker implanted below my clavicle. Because the depression, the desire to die, had become unbearable. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Journalism conferences are very funny. Print journalists are like "look at me wearing pants" and TV journalists are in full face makeup and fancy suits and dress shoes.

Someone should be arrested for how small Halloween chocolate bars have gotten.

Dumb sport stuff is the best sport stuff. See: The Stanchion

Everyone is saying it

Jays should try to get a hit

“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?’” 🕷️

The 2021 atmospheric river was wild

So, I hate to be this guy, but as the director of Yale’s new program on attribution science (!?), uh, most of the commentary on Bluesky about Hurricane Melissa and climate change has been… not quite right

In 100 per cent unsurprising news, the bank that supposedly pulled funding from a Richmond project because of the Cowichan court decision says it definitely did not pull funding because of the Cowichan court decision www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/cou...

Sherwood going the full Jeff Cowan

There's a funny AI angle here too. The Times emailed this guy and he used AI to draft a response that he presumably emailed back. He doesn't seem to have actually talked to the reporter, which could have allowed awkward mayor-related follow-up questions that would have required guy to actually lie

i'm a classical social democrat. i think we should raise tax on the upper tax brackets, increase broad-based tax enforcement, and provide universal programs on transit, housing, and healthcare. this apparently is viewed as neoliberalism

BC Residents May Have to Cover a Property Tax Break for Pipelines via @tyolsen.bsky.social @thetyee.ca www.thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

The piece is partly right and partly wrong. All non-ad supported journalism is, in a sense, patron journalism. And in that respect, it is the future. But INDIVIDUAL journalism is inevitably doomed. It is inefficient and, by its nature, ephemeral. A pub built on one person can't outlast that person.

STORY: A B.C. sports sleep expert thinks the Blue Jays fouled up by flying to L.A. in the middle of the night — but that they may have had a sleep advantage anyway over their opponents:

I've heard a few times that the Blue Jays strategy was to get to the Dodgers' bullpen early as if the route to doing that isn't just "hit ball hard, away from fielders."

“Efficiency and tackling waste and fraud, these should be the focuses of any progressive politics,” Mamdani said.

The winner for most unncecessary pun goes to...

Outlying communities where pipelines comprise much of the commercial tax base will be most affected. @tyolsen.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli

Remember when John Schneider subbed out one of his quality hitters for some bench schmuck because the bench schmuck was slightly faster running bases and then he did it again and again and again and

Been watching the game so long I know "Myles Straw is the on deck hitter" is not ideal.

Brendon Little has a strong case for constructive dismissal.

Joe Davis: I love pineapple John Smoltz: it’s a great, great fruit An actual exchange between them just now

Our bar for amazing scenes seems to be dropping

This is reminding me of the Monty Python skit of the Olympic Final Hide and Seek! #BlueJays www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ycb9...

Hahahaha

Playoff hockey OT has the “snort cocaine riding a motorcycle out of a helicopter” quote, but playoff baseball extra innings is like playing Russian Roulette every fifteen seconds

This ball game has been going long enough that the story I wrote for tomorrow is online today: thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...