Trans Mountain is making big profits now, right? Actually, no. Thanks to accounting wizardry and a shell company, the pipeline has transformed Canadians' losses into gains on its balance sheets. My deep dive on this for @thetyee.ca: thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

The tow tug crew wanted a Christmas tree and the captain went above and aground to get them one.

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

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...

A photo circulating online shows a barge with a tree implanted in its front. Although some suggested the image was created by artificial intelligence, The Tyee confirmed its veracity. @amandafollett.bsky.social reports. 🌲

No, this barge isn't delivering Christmas trees. It ran aground on BC's north coast — the second to have trouble in the region in a month. The company that operates both barges said it has left. Questions remain about plans to open the region to oil shipping. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

The Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia said Eby was “undermining public confidence in the justice system” and his comments “reflect a troubling national trend in which politicians use the courts as punching bags to score political points.” @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

“Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session… When we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and he says to me, ‘You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.’ And I looked at him and I said, ‘You know, you do, too.’”

Canadian MP says Israeli soldiers shoved her as delegation denied entry globalnews.ca/news/1157993...

I honestly expected more from a FIFA Peace Prize recipient

In late Nov. researcher @kwardvancouver.bsky.social pointed me to an OPCC investigation summary into now ex-VPD officer’s abusive relationship with a teenage girl. They met when he made a policing presentation at her high school & she expressed interest in being a cop. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12... 1/

The Nuxalk Nation is demanding MP Ellis Ross apologize after he arranged to visit the community and meet with the local rod and gun club — but failed to reach out to the nation — in the wake of a recent bear attack. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ma double dipped on the Christmas parties!

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Yesterday, MP Ellis Ross voted with the CPC to support an oil pipeline and lifting of the tanker ban on BC's north coast. Ross previously refused to take a clear stance on a pipeline, something opposed by communities in his riding and fiercely supported by his party. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

This family needs some help.

I was amazed while watching federal politicians debate today that many appeared unaware of basic history like this agreement. 👇🏻

Big news from @briellemimi.bsky.social and @indiginews.bsky.social : 'The Supreme Court of Canada has tossed an appeal from the child ‘welfare’ agency in favour of ‘Justine.’ Her lawyer says it’s now ‘the case that governs the issue in B.C.’' indiginews.com/news/top-cou...

We published our AI policy yesterday. It affirms our commitment to human-made writing, photography and illustrations. #journalism #localnews You can read more here: thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...

Not for health reasons, this is just to create a Christmassy "no room at the inn" vibe.

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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

How a government treats freedom of information requests tells you whether they see themselves as working for the public or lording above the public. Government information BELONGS to the public. It should be free. It's not theirs to do with as they please. It's ours.

WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

john rustad right now

🤯 Journalist, Munk Debate member, U of T graduate, and recent (unanimously selected) PEN Canada Ken Filkow Prize recipient for her work advancing freedom of expression in Canada, @smohyeddin.bsky.social, is turned away from attending tonight's Munk debate in Toronto. Good grief 🤷

Essential read if you want to know what ‘the rush for critical minerals’ looks like for Indigenous communities and remote watersheds in Canada. This one’s about my First Nation but who’s next. Great reporting by @sevawood.bsky.social @thenarwhal.ca thenarwhal.ca/eskay-creek-...

Big news out of Lytton. (@amandafollett.bsky.social has been working this story, looking for answers, for so many years, and via so many FOIs!)

In @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social’s first English-media interview since resigning over the pipeline MOU with Alberta, the former cabinet minister said the government isn’t being honest with the public and is betraying its commitments.

More than four years after Lytton was destroyed by wildfire, the BC Supreme Court has certified a class-action lawsuit against CN and CP railway companies. The trial is set to begin in summer 2027. My latest for @thetyee.ca: thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

This is the same party (who have never elected any members btw) that doesn’t think we should have memorials or anything to honour residential school survivors and victims

"We will not stand by while the Carney government and Alberta attempt to bulldoze our rights." "Coastal First Nations, along with the province of B.C., will never allow our coast to be put at risk of a catastrophic oil spill." #BritishColumbia #Alberta #Canada #Climate #FossilFuels

Tahltan members are raising concerns after the nation's leadership negotiated a $40-million “upfront payment” from Eskay Creek gold mine that it intends to distribute in $10,000 payments to eligible individuals. Really important reporting from @stefanlabbe.bsky.social. www.biv.com/news/resourc...

I think it’s bad, actually, to play political chess with Indigenous rights.

Reading the MOU as a whole, there's an impression of policy in a time warp. Environmental commitments are fuzzy and down the road; Indigenous engagement amounts to financial inducements to go along with the state. It's as if nothing has been learned the last 15 years. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/back...

Not gonna lie, pretty proud of this one.

Every journalist reporting on the Canada-Alberta MOU needs to read BC's hot-off-the-presses CleanBC report: or at the very least read this piece about it by @zoeyunker.bsky.social and @amandafollett.bsky.social

BC's climate plan reviewers issued their report card yesterday. Their verdict: Focus less on targets and more on getting stuff done. Also, LNG could blow everything out of the water. My collab with @amandafollett.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

Canada just signed a deal with Alberta to build a bitumen pipeline through northern BC. ICYMI: My recent explainer for @thetyee.ca about BC's 50-year history of opposing oil transportation through the region — and the massive battle these governments just signed up for. thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

B.C.’s road map to lower carbon emissions and reduce global warming is working, but it needs adjusting to account for economic shifts, the affordability crisis and regional differences, says the team reviewing the CleanBC plan. @amandafollett.bsky.social and @zoeyunker.bsky.social report. #bcpoli

The Freep probably wants to be more accurate ... CIJA is an Israeli organization, not a Jewish organization. Conflating the two, making it look like Jews in general want to stop the CMHR from talking about forced displacement of Palestinians, could feed anti-Semitism.

Vancouver Fire Rescue Services responded to 54 overdoses last Friday - the most in a single day in the department's history. Averaged 16 per day in May. There has been a surge in ODs reported all across the province in the past few weeks.

Experts reviewing CleanBC say the plan to reduce carbon emissions is working — but the province needs to take a closer look at LNG. My story with @zoeyunker.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

BC is about to release its review of CleanBC, its plan for reducing carbon emissions. It already acknowledged that it will not meet 2025 or 2030 climate goals. My report from when BC announced the review, a condition of its agreement with @bcgreens.bsky.social, in July. thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...

“The emails, the correspondence that we're receiving from people, are constituents sitting down and actually writing their thoughts and I think that actually speaks volumes in terms of how committed people are to this issue,” MP Will Greaves said. From @natashabulowski.bsky.social

IMHO Carney has underestimated how badly a pipeline deal with Smith will go over, especially here in BC. I’m old enough to remember the RCMP staking out Northern Gateway pipeline opposition meetings. Source: CBC share.google/IUMyN8h6r7yx...

Anyone who says a bitumen pipeline through northern BC could "usher in a new era of harmony on resource development" has not talked to anyone in northern BC.