NEW from me: I took a deep dive for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social into the American hedge fund-owned Canadian newspaper chain that’s pushing anti-trans, pro-genocide and climate science denial narratives down our throats. ricochet.media/media/dumpst...

I’ve never encountered anything like this in all my years of reporting: a grieving mother being told, during an inquest, that her daughter was buried three years ago without her knowledge or consent. #mmiwg thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...

NEW: The RCMP can apply the lessons it learned at an Israeli military seminar last year to “Canadian law enforcement contexts,” according to a briefing document written by Canada’s defence attaché in Israel. www.readthemaple.com/rcmp-can-app...

US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra welcomed Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich to his July 4 party in Ottawa tonight Lich is currently serving a house arrest sentence in relation to a criminal conviction over her role in the convoy's three-week occupation of Canada's capital city

New from me. Mark Carney’s Oprah giveaway day, and a vexing question: if a new pipeline is a money-printing machine, why does no private company want to build it so that taxpayers have to? #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

"The realization is yet to set in with the public that 90 per cent of the cost of this multibillion-dollar project — we don’t know how many multiples of billions yet — is going to be paid by Alberta and Canadian taxpayers, just as we were promised would never happen." thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Patient Safety and Learning Systems are protected from public scrutiny so health care professionals have “full, open and candid discussions” on patient safety, according to BC’s health ministry. thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...

Scrolling the news in 2026…

“It suggests that even the police whose job it is to deal with the media don’t understand how the media works. Worse, they don’t seem to appreciate the vital role played by media.”

LNG Canada wants B.C.’s energy regulator to increase its flaring limit tenfold for the next three years. If approved, the new limit would allow the company to continually flare up to 300 tonnes of gas per day, an increase from its current limit of 28 tonnes per day. thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...

Both the government and the Court of Appeal now treat protesters as terrorists and terrorists as protesters. It's hard to accept that a "Labour" government is imposing rightwing authoritarianism on the UK, but please read this column to see what's happening.+🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Telus recently tried to charge me an “activation fee” to renew my contract — no changes, just a fee for the privilege of continuing to be their customer. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Congrats to @ethancox.bsky.social and Jerome Turner of @ricochetmedia.bsky.social for winning the Gold Scoop Award for https://loom.ly/8hRYt0E Félicitations à Ethan Cox et Jerome Turner pour avoir remporté le Prix or « Scoop »

a profoundly moving and very sad story harm reduction is not about reducing harms of drug use, but the harms of drug 𝒑𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒄𝒚 the practice of harm reduction builds justice and is love read it www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Oh, this is fun! (Dave Daust is a forestry expert who lived in my town… we are not married but — fun fact — his son played violin at my wedding!)

Seeing some people react to this as if Jesse Brown lost in court and experiencing some understandable schadenfreude But his isn't a court verdict, it's an out-of-court settlement. What this actually shows is Jesse Brown was willing to pay $885,000 to avoid a public airing of these issues at trial

JUST IN: B.C. MLA Jordan Kealy charged with sexual assault in Fort St. John www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

One wonders how, after decades of ongoing centralization, the PM manages to centralize power in the PMO even further. www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

While Gitxan hereditary leaders support a proposed pipeline project, some community members say they weren't consulted on changes it would bring to the valley. @amandafollett.bsky.social reports. thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...

“Deep-snow caribou are found nowhere else in the world but in B.C. In 2005, B.C. had 18 deep-snow caribou herds. Eight herds are now locally extinct, while the others are hanging on by a hoof.” @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/06...

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