BREAKING: Canada exported $14.6 million of military goods to Israel in 2025, according to data released today by Global Affairs Canada. www.readthemaple.com/canada-expor...

Good to see @velshi.com out there. This is fucking crazy.

“The Education Ministry, under Beare, objected to a democratically elected school board’s decision to end a police program. It conspired with police to attack and undermine the board… and it withheld evidence from the courts in a shocking failure.” @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

"I strive to be available to the media to explain to British Columbians what’s happening, and I encourage my ministers to do the same on their files," Premier David Eby said during estimates debate last night I can tell you this line was met with...skepticism from much of the press gallery just now

Filming through bedroom windows. Following school children. These are among the new details I’ve found in what officials say is Canada’s most prolific voyeurism case. It casts light on the extent of the secret filming of 600+ women and girls, and the community toll. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Pretty sure a bag search would require a warrant...?

Follow up: the police released him, no charges. I took a video of VPD officers digging through his bag and then removing his handcuffs and letting him repack his backpack. Once the scene dispersed I approached the man, shared my contact info, and offered to share the video if he wanted it.

Congratulations to @amandafollett.bsky.social and @tchadasleo.bsky.social 2026 Lieutenant Governor BC Journalism Fellows. Read more about their work jackwebster.com/wp-content/u...

My head is spinning from the news that I'll spend this summer focused on a topic that's dear to my heart — the decline in community news and its effect on small towns. Gratitude to Honourable Wendy Cocchia for granting two fellowships — both examining rural issues. 1/2 ltgov.bc.ca/lieutenant-g...

The week @nationalobserver.com broke news about a Trump-linked US company hosting Albertans' electoral data, our site started suffering from massive outages. Our provider tells us their servers are under attack. We don't know if we're the target, but the timing is weird. Thanks for bearing with us!

It defies logic that the CBC's version of this story, published earlier today, doesn't even appear on its homepage. Here's the BBC. It's better anyway. www.bbc.com/news/article...

A first for me today. Glad to have this piece in The Guardian. Figured it was time more of our international friends heard some hard truths about how things are going here in 🇨🇦: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Great to see the BC Greens pressing the Public Safety Minister on my recent report that the province and RCMP are swapping info on treaty negotiations and climate actions. It would be nice if the Minister could explain the difference between "monitoring" and "sharing of information."

A horrifying story of a woman left to fend for herself after the RCMP mishandled her complaint about her neighbour. “...almost all of the RCMP members involved in the matter lacked a basic understanding of the law of sexual assault.” www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/c0f8440... gift link

David Anderson, who played a major role in getting Canada’s Species at Risk Act passed in 2002, is the third former Liberal environment minister to criticize Mark Carney’s proposed changes. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

NEW: 2 Canadian companies are accused of failing to seek free, prior and informed consent from Indigenous peoples in Nevada before going ahead with major lithium mining projects. www.readthemaple.com/canadian-fir...

Dropping this @thetyee.ca story from December here for no reason... no reason at all... thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

If you have to resort to this kind of government speak in your news reporting, it might be worth asking what, exactly, the agreement does. I listened to this presser and one reporter was literally like, "Why exactly are we here?" interior-news.com/2026/05/14/b...

This panel of journalists will discuss the rise of digital disinformation and how to respond at The Tyee’s Reality Check LIVE event on May 21. We’re looking forward to a fun night out with our friends and supporters! thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...

I honestly do not understand how you make the country strong by selling critical infrastructure

BC's move to a non-US-made, difficult-to-handle fertilizer and a "disgruntled employee" were among the unfortunate chain of events that led to the poisoning deaths of 13 cattle in the interior last year. My latest for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

An Indigenous comedy troupe apparently pranked Lindsay Shepherd, a former BC Conservative staffer who was fired after she complained bitterly about having to view any symbols of Orange Shirt Day (In Canada, Orange Shirt Day commemorates experiences of residential school survivors)

📢 #EVENT: Our editor-in-chief David Beers, alongside these other incredible panelists, will talk everything media democracy in this fireside chat on May 28 at 5:30 p.m. at the Vancouver Harbour Centre. 📰 Reserve your ticket for the free event and learn more here. 👇🏽 #CdnMedia #canpoli

Something big just happened on Haida Gwaii. For the first time in B.C., a utility-scale solar project is now taking a meaningful bite out of a diesel-fuelled remote grid. It's a product of years of work from the Haida Nation, and it could signal a tipping point. (photos: Katherine Cheng) 🧵

Costs like lost wages, child care and travel “add up quickly,” wrote Mayor Lisa Pineault in a March 6 letter to PM Carney, Premier Eby and the auditors general. Pineault hopes an audit could be the first step toward more equitable health care in the province. @amandafollett.bsky.social reports.

Turns out the residential school denialist movement is really just a handful of fired or retired academics who created an email group to create denialist content that is being boosted by far-right media, think tanks, and politicians to attack truth and reconciliation: thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

Heading to Williams Lake. Will be staying over. If you have anything to say about the area and or want to say hi, give me a shout.

The B.C. Supreme Court has dismissed a defamation lawsuit launched by the wife of Quesnel’s mayor against the Union of BC Indian Chiefs ruling the group’s comments in a letter did “negligible (if any) harm” to her reputation. @amandafollett.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli

And in other news: Horses say feral human population has reached 'unacceptable' levels, most other animal groups agree #nature #conservation

'We also believe that a forensic audit would reveal the dysfunction that has been underway with the funding provided by Canada to the organizations identified herein,” says the letter from families. Story by Dennis Ward.

Wow this is bad news for BC. The vast majority of working journalists in this province either came through Langara or BCIT's program

Fun fact: This was a draft media response as rumours swirled last May that a decision on PRGT's substantial start determination may be imminent. Turns out the province had, in fact, made its decision, but didn't make it public for several weeks. No indication of why it delayed the announcement.

When #BCgov comms people discuss media requests about pipelines... 😶‍🌫️

Not to mention a lot more redactions, which are often proven unfounded when challenged. The public's lack of trust in the FOI system is driving the spike in complaints, IMHO.

“As a street doctor of 15 years, Wiwcharuk has seen how devastating public misconceptions around addiction and homelessness can be. Her main objective in posting educational content is to foster compassion.” @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

But the labour force according to the Carney government only includes (male-dominated) trades What about the 1 in 5 Canadians—mainly women—who work in the care economy? And all of us who depend on care? Care workers are invisible to this government #cdnpoli

A B.C. government group that works with police to monitor protests against the natural resource industry has also been keeping tabs on First Nations treaty negotiations and climate action initiatives, according to an internal document. @amandafollett.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli

“When contacted by The Tyee, B.C’s Public Safety Ministry declined to say which climate groups or treaty negotiations it monitors and whether they are linked to protests or illegal activity. It also refused to explain how the secretariat’s work monitoring protests overlaps with treaty negotiations.”

A bi-weekly meeting of several BC ministries, industry regulators and the RCMP's CRU-BC protest policing unit has been keeping tabs on "ongoing climate action initiatives and treaty negotiations," according to a January update. My latest for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

A sovereign wealth fund is a great idea, Canada should have had one years ago. But the devil is in the details. What kind of projects will it invest in, and in what form? And how will the public interest truly be advanced over time? Many questions to be answered... #cdnecon /2

Things are not going well in BC. A🧵. The residential school deniers have taken their masks off and are now using Nazi rhetoric in the Legislature. 1/x

“Instead of subsidizing logging, the province should follow experts’ advice and pay nations to conserve forests.” @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

The temporary sugar high of axing the federal fuel tax fails to address Canada’s dependence on an increasingly volatile energy source, experts warn. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

The Tsitika River watershed on northeast Vancouver Island is home to ancient rainforests and abundant wildlife. Last year, BC quietly removed a large tract from its old-growth deferral list. Now 24 hectares are slated for logging. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

“We have been here before. We have had to fight for our rights at every turn. We had hoped with DRIPA we had set a new path with less conflict and reconciliation in sight.” Will the Real David Eby Please Stand Up? via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

The Union of BC Indian Chiefs asks people to send love and prayers to our warrior matriarch Joan Phillip, Amshen, as she is fighting serious illness.