A Coronavirus Hell of Kenney’s Own Making
The COVID-19 devil runs free, yet again, in Alberta and the premier has no excuse.
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Old-Growth Forest Logging Approvals Are Soaring in BC
Companies are rushing to get permits before protection comes for critical areas, advocates say.
Federal budget ignores Canada’s ongoing genocide against Indigenous peoples
This country’s continued denial of basic human rights for Indigenous peoples is written right into budget 2021
Seed the North: Fighting Climate Change, One Sprout at a Time
Could an innovative approach to reforestation take root in BC?
Stephen Lewis keeps fighting for worldwide access to vaccines
Stephen Lewis is fighting for his life. He has inoperable cancer. I was privileged to document his heroic work as UN HIV/AIDS envoy to Africa, for three documentaries made for … Read More
Pausing AstraZeneca Could Cause More Deaths. And More New COVID Science
The latest roundup of pandemic findings gathered by The Tyee.
How COVID-19 and CERB proved that basic income is not only possible—it works
The Canada Emergency Response Benefit has been an essential lifeline for millions of Canadians during the pandemic, amounting to just the sort of no-strings-attached Basic Income that had already been … Read More
Inside Strathcona Park’s 24-Hour Overdose Prevention Site
Staffed by tent city residents in Strathcona Park, workers at the site reversed a dozen overdoses and welcomed 100 visits a day.
‘Mother Trees’ Are Real. They Model Sharing and Generosity
Suzanne Simard’s book on forest complexity is as sturdy, impressive and beautiful as a big red cedar.
Why is a Montréal school pushing students to join the Israeli military?
IDF soldiers from the Nahal Brigade operating in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge, July 30, 2014. Photo courtesy the Israel Defense Forces/Flickr. Why are Québec taxpayers funding a school enthusiastically … Read More
When a New Drug Is Costly, Not Approved, and Possibly Life Changing
A trial cystic fibrosis treatment could offer a ‘new normal’ for people like Lilia Zaharieva. But they risk hopes dashed.
Canada’s Green Party Leader Wants a New Politics of ‘Shared Credit’
Annamie Paul on policy ideas born of pandemic, what she urged Trudeau, ‘senocide,’ and more. A Tyee interview.
Tom Berger fought for Indigenous rights his whole life
Sometime well after midnight during the summer of 1975, Judge Tom Berger hit a double. The B.C. judge was heading the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry. He held hearings in every … Read More
Canada must radically reform disastrous long-term care system
Long-term care for the elderly is the weak sibling of Canada’s health system. If we did not know that previously, the COVID-19 pandemic has proven it conclusively. During the first … Read More
We need a better and more caring economy
On February 24, the Parliamentary Budget Office issued a report critical of plans by the Department of National Defence to spend $77.3 billion to build 15 new naval warships. That … Read More