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thetyee, 2 months ago to random

“How can I possibly sell more stuff in a world that can’t produce more stuff? That dissonance is what led me to believe that the world needs the Nature Agency.”

How nature got its own advertising agency:

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/03/29/Nature-Own-Advertising-Agency/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to random

The good news: British Columbians are ready to see our government take more decisive action to speed up progress on this file.

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/03/29/Most-People-BC-Want-To-Get-New-Buildings-Off-Gas/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to random

The Atira Workers Housing Co-op was lauded as a solution to help employees find housing.

But just three years after it was formed, residents were sent a letter that says the co-op is no longer financially feasible, and they need to move out by May 31.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/03/29/Atira-Workers-Housing-Co-op-Closing/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to random

Saving the Taylor’s checkerspot butterfly: Work being undertaken by incarcerated women in Washington has become one of the last best hopes for the species’ survival.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/03/29/Saving-Taylor-Checkerspot-Butterfly/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to random

An advocacy group trying to increase the number of highly skilled resident doctors who can apply to work in British Columbia says it’s “two down, three to go” when it comes to hitting its goal.

@michelle_gamage reports. #bclab #bced

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/03/28/BC-Two-Stream-Medical-Residency-System-Discrimination-Challenge/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to random

B.C. will pay a large international accounting firm up to $1.5 million to tell it how to redesign the province’s funding model for long-term care.

But critics worry the process could be hijacked by business interests. https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/03/28/BC-Long-Term-Care-Funding-Review/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to random

Lee Nisar’s “Dil Ka” is a tender reflection on taking chances with the ones we love, and the quest for the best biryani.

Jeevan Sangha writes.

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/03/28/Dil-Ka-Queer-Muslim-Joy/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to random

David Climenhaga: The point of Naheed Nenshi’s visit to Edmonton was clearly to make a positive impression on what could've been a critical audience of New Dems.

It seems as if the former Calgary mayor needn’t have worried.

#abpoli

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/03/28/Nenshi-Edmonton-Not-Worried/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to random

A truly life-or-death, three-way struggle is going on around the world — a struggle to determine the response to the next pandemic.

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/03/28/We-Ready-Next-Pandemic/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to random

Inside the rise, fall and return of John Galliano: A new documentary on the disgraced designer asks important questions about our twisted relationships with work and the things we cherish.

Dorothy Woodend writes. 🎞👗

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2024/03/27/Rise-Fall-Return-High-Low-John-Galliano-Dior-Fashion-Documentary/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to random

“Originally $500 million and to be completed in 2021, the North Shore wastewater plant will now cost at least $3.86 billion with completion still six years away.

“Talk about flushing away money. What can we do about this?”

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/03/27/Please-Advise-North-Shore-Sewage-Plant/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to random

Natural gas debuted in Vancouver over a century ago, where it started out in things like lamps.

Today, it’s the primary way B.C. powers its buildings, and a major problem for cutting emissions by 40% in six years.

But in some places, a change has begun.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/03/27/BC-Climate-Goals-Gas/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to random

Rakhi Pancholi, one of the most credible candidates to lead the Alberta NDP, has jumped aboard the Naheed Nenshi juggernaut.

#abpoli

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/03/27/McGown-Enters-Race-Nenshi-Ally/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to random

#WhatWorks: What would you do with more than five million pounds of crab shells? Most would turn their nose up. 🦀

This year, this company will convert that massive pile into a product that not only replaces synthetic chemicals but makes water cleaner.

https://thetyee.ca/WhatWorks/2024/03/27/Crab-Shells-Wonder-Ingredient/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to random

Why Adam Gopnik is “shocked” at Canada’s new conservatism. Plus, why did Alberta send a hospital patient to motel hell? And the rejected plan to charge old customers for new buildings’ renewable gas.

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thetyee, 2 months ago to random

"Most of the students here, they don’t get work easily, so it’s hard to fight for our rights and to raise our voice at work."

How international students in a janitors’ union won their fight. Brishti Basu reports. #bclab

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/03/26/International-Students-Janitors-Union-Won-Fight/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editoriale

thetyee, 2 months ago to random

🐻 The year 2023 has the “record” for bear killings in B.C. The rate consistently reported by media was 603 kills.

But there is more to the story around animal management than kill data. Bryce Casavant writes.

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/03/26/Lethal-Force-BC-Bears/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to random

B.C.’s anti-gang police agency is faltering.

The province’s response to organized crime and gang murders is “weak, scattered, ineffective,” external reviewers say.

What’s the fix? Geoff Meggs writes.

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/03/26/Anti-Gang-Police-Agency-Faltering/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to random

What can a city do with a property owner like Henry Ren?

Death, injuries, displacement: The dark history of one Vancouver landlord. Jen St. Denis reports.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/03/26/Dark-History-Vancouver-Landlord/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to Alberta

Alberta’s “traffic light system” for preventing a destructive industry-caused earthquake flashed red again near Fox Creek — home to one of the largest quakes caused by fossil fuel frackers.

Andrew Nikiforuk reports. #alberta #abpoli

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/03/25/Red-Alert-Alberta-Fracking-Earthquake-Warning-System/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to random

Welcome to the brilliant and unsettling work of Alexis Wright, teller of big stories made up of little ones, despair chronicles and harbinger of something not quite hope, but not not hope either.

Join Ian Gill in conversation with the author. #TyeePresents #Sponsored

https://thetyee.ca/Presents/2024/03/25/Alexis-Wright-Towering-Writer/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to random

Alberta has a strange double standard on green energy, writes Tim Rauf. Solar and wind face tough rules, while fossil fuels get a pass. #abpoli

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/03/25/Alberta-Double-Standard-Green-Energy/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to ubc

From strengthening primary care to mental health supports to transport in and out of hospital, @ubc med students tell our health reporter @michelle_gamage how to improve emergency care in B.C. #bcpoli

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/03/25/Five-Ways-Fix-Emergency-Care/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

thetyee, 2 months ago to random

Duncan Cameron is a fisherman, like his dad and his dad’s dad before him.

They count themselves among the families who have made livings on the water.

But today, Cameron says young fishers like him are being priced out.

@zakvescera reports. 🎣 #bclab

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/03/25/Young-Fishers-Good-Luck/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial