7IDANsuu James Hart and Curtis Collins have been shortlisted for the Bill Duthie Booksellers’ Choice Award.
Read @dorothywoodend.bsky.social’s on Hart’s artistic practice in The Tyee’s Weekender. 🔖
Katrina Chen and Elaine Su have been nominated for the Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize for “A Stronger Home,” their book on family violence.
Read Jeevan Sangha’s interview with the authors in The Tyee’s Weekender. 💎
Vancouver author and editor Jen Sookfong Lee has been nominated for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes for “The Hunger We Pass Down,” her latest novel.
Read @harrisonmooney.bsky.social’s interview with Jen in The Tyee. 👻
Ruby Smith Diaz has been nominated for the Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes.
Read @jenstden.bsky.social’s interview with the author in The Tyee.
Larry Grant and Scott Steedman have been shortlisted for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize for “Reconciling: A Lifelong Struggle to Belong.”
Read an excerpt in @thetyee.ca’s Weekender. 🧡
Artists Paul Wong and Tamio Wakayama have been shortlisted for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize for their book “Enemy Alien.”
Read @dorothywoodend.bsky.social’s essay on the book and art exhibition it was part of in The Tyee’s Weekender. 📸🫶
Multi-discplinary artist and educator Ruby Smith Diaz published a book on the life and legacy of Vancouver icon Serafim “Joe” Fortes.
It has been shortlisted for the Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize. Read an excerpt in The Tyee’s Weekender. 🌊
Vancouver podcast host and organizer @garthmullins.bsky.social published “Crackdown,” his first book, last year, and it’s been nominated for the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize.
The Tyee’s @michellegamage.bsky.social interviewed him last spring. 💪
Vancouver crime fiction author Sam Wiebe has been shortlisted for the @bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for “The Last Exile,” his 2025 novel.
The Tyee’s own @harrisonmooney.bsky.social interviewed Sam last year. ☔️🕵️♀️🔍
Congratulations to the fabulous authors shortlisted for the 2026 BC and Yukon Book Prizes!
It's been our pleasure to feature many authors on the 2026 @bcyukonbookprizes.bsky.social shortlist in @thetyee.ca.
Here's a thread to celebrate them. 📚🏆🎊🧵
Ballet BC’s “UNITY,” an evening of dance featuring the world premiere of “FOR GLASS” by internationally acclaimed choreographic duo Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, is coming to the Queen Elizabeth Theatre May 7-9. 🩰
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The Conservative Party of BC leadership race has crossed the threshold from merely damaging to potentially disastrous, writes @pwillcocks.bsky.social. #bcpoli
It’s been four and a half years since Jane McCormick’s son, Jeff, was killed by unregulated drugs.
Were he alive, he would have just celebrated his 40th birthday with his two kids.
#ToxicDrugCrisis #bcpoli
“To say we are frustrated or angry would be an understatement,” said Robert Phillips, First Nations Summit leader, at a news conference Friday. “This is a historical moment for First Nations and we will not back down.”
#bcpoli
“I’m starting to wonder whether physicians have been masking the underlying disease for so long that from the outside, the system still kind of looks like it works — while from the inside, we can feel it failing.”
Dr. Marie Claire Bourque writes.
“Premier Eby built his career as a human rights lawyer advocating for the most vulnerable. Yet, as he is confronted by the hard work of governing the province, he has abandoned the people he used to serve and the principles that his party holds dear.”
The First Nations Leadership Council writes.
Powerwood Canada Corp. claims that wildfires create nightmarish landscapes and that logging such forests is key to restoring their health.
But scientists counter that logging them spells disaster for plants and animals that rely on burned landscapes to flourish.
Ben Parfitt writes. 🪵 #abpoli
Join “Democracy’s Second Act” co-author Richard Johnson and Tyee editor @jenstden.bsky.social for a free event about revitalizing Canadian democracy at the downtown Vancouver Public Library at 7 p.m. on April 15.
Register here!
You couldn’t find a better word to describe our current state than “complacent.”
But treating democracy as inevitable is risky because self-government is anything but set-it-and-forget-it, writes @davidmoscrop.com.
Moscrop interviews authors Peter MacLeod and Richard Johnson. #canpoli
“We will emerge into a landscape of rational drug policy, even if it remains pretty dark until we get there.”
Victoria-based addiction medicine specialist Dr. Ryan Herriot writes. #ToxicDrugCrisis #bcpoli
First Nations leaders are condemning Premier David Eby’s plan to suspend parts of #DRIPA as a step backward that will increase uncertainty for all British Columbians and create political problems for the NDP.
Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli
@dorothywoodend.bsky.social: Two new movies — one blockbuster smash, one powerful Canadian documentary — helped me make sense of the moment. Maybe they’ll help you too. 🪨🎞️
Ora Cogan lost and found her voice on a non-linear path from playing noise shows in Victoria to documenting land defence frontlines, writes Tova Gaster.
“This is civic infrastructure.” @harrisonmooney.bsky.social spoke with internet librarian @brewster.kahle.org on the importance of universal access to all knowledge. 🏛️📚🌐
Brian Payton: For many purple martin people, these birds highlight an intimate relationship with something willing to meet us across the interspecies divide. 🐦⬛
These eight collections from debut and veteran writers tackle themes as wide-ranging as grief, disability, war, colonialism, labour and motherhood.
Discover or rediscover poetry this April, and happy National Poetry Month! ✍️🔖
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Even when a British Columbia MLA is facing serious criminal charges, as Richmond Centre representative Hon Chan is, there are few means to fire them. Andrew MacLeod reports. #bcpoli
The RCMP is asking the Federal Court to overturn a finding that its officers discriminated against Indigenous people when they investigated historical abuse allegations at two northern B.C. schools. @amandafollett.bsky.social reports.
Check out part two to this story: a J.B.-designed tree tour, complete with a precisely pinned map of the trees and illustrations of the actual trees by Nora Kelly. 🗺️📍🌲
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