The Tyee Picks Up 5 CAJ Awards Nominations | The Tyee Jen St. Denis, Isaac Phan Nay, Tyler Olsen and Kristen de Jaeger are in the running for national awards for their reporting.

Very exciting to see @jenstden.bsky.social, @isaacphannay.bsky.social, @tyolsen.bsky.social, Kristen de Jager, and Kristen Holliday nominated for @cajournalists.bsky.social awards! thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

Congrats, Zak!

So exciting to see my @thetyee.ca colleagues land five CAJ nominations this morning! 🥳

NEW - Former NDP minister and BC’s first First Nations woman elected to the legislature, Melanie Mark, says legislation to suspend DRIPA is coming,and she’s breaking with her own party to say it. #bcpoli #dripa​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #cdnpoli

the premier insists this is needed because “the B.C. Court of Appeal ruled late last year that the mineral rules in the province are ‘inconsistent’ with the DRIPA legislation” but for some reason he's not amending the Mining Act

hmmmmmm

#bcpoli

So happy to have this piece up today, though my concern about the CBSA’s process of investigating complaints remains. And how does this organization still not have an independent oversight committee when the RCMP and other similar groups do?

Former minister Catherine McKenna blasts the heads of Canadian oil companies MONTRÉAL – Former environment minister Catherine McKenna says the leaders of Canada’s oil industry are figures close to American President Donald Trump who are “taking us for fools&#...

Former minister Catherine McKenna blasts the heads of Canadian oil companies

a man in a grey sweater says " okay " ALT: a man in a grey sweater says " okay "

Banning algorithmic pricing ought to be a no-brainer call for any government: people don’t like to be ripped off, surveilled, or treated differently from their peers.

Algorithm pricing does all three of those things.

Pop star boyfriend posting from Coachella, celebrity statesman, global brand: Justin Trudeau’s offbeat political afterlife While Canadian prime ministers have taken staid routes after leaving office, Trudeau has chosen a different path

While Canadian prime ministers have taken staid routes after leaving office, Trudeau has chosen a different path

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The CRA is out here re-assessing my freelance ass every year and meanwhile they're also handing out millions to scammers?

'Here we go again' after CRA pays out another bogus $5M income tax refund, agency insider says | CBC News The Canada Revenue Agency has paid out another $5-million refund to a single taxpayer, this time to a B.C. businesswoman, despite what it now alleges was a bogus return that included "illogical" and "...

Thinking about all the hoops I jump through to file a tax return and wondering if I shouldn’t just tell CRA it owes me $5 million and be done with it.
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Journalists champion Wayback Machine after news publishers limit article archiving In January, Hanaa’ Tameez and I broke the story that The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today Co. had begun limiting the Wayback Machine’s access to their news articles. Our reporting showed th...

I'm quoted in this for signing & sharing a testimonial about an incident in which Vancouver Police edited their press release after I'd published an article about it to make it look like I had lied.

Anyway, long live the Wayback Machine!

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"Social murder" is a good way to put it. If this many people were being killed by cars we wouldn't be blaming people for leaving their houses in the morning. We'd demand change.
Stigma is killing people. Stigma says because people use drugs the deserve to die. That is so wrong on so many levels.

DRIPA’s Deadlock. ‘We Will Not Back Down’ | The Tyee First Nations vow to fight the BC NDP in a showdown that could topple the government.

It's unfortunate to see both Eby and Farnworth naming MLA Joan Phillip as the reason the bill would fail — and govt would fall.

It's likely that other MLAs are uncomfortable with the move to suspend DRIPA, which has been widely condemned by First Nations leaders. thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

BC Backs Off on DRIPA Amendments. For Now | The Tyee Facing the potential fall of the government, the NDP backpedalled. But Eby reiterated sections of DRIPA need to be paused.

The BC govt has paused plans to suspend DRIPA.

House leader Mike Farnworth says the bill won't be coming “today or this week” and it won't be a confidence motion.

He acknowledged that the BC NDP wouldn’t have enough votes to pass the bill.
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RCMP Seeks to Quash Discrimination Ruling by Human Rights Tribunal. Mounties argue that they shouldn't have to pay $7,500 to each of the Indigenous complainants who alleged discrimination in an RCMP investigation. @daveeby.bsky.social @nikisharma.bsky.social @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

Canadians + Americans go to Europe and Asia, ride fast electric trains, come back home, and ask: "Why can't we have nice things here?"

It's because, at a crucial point, commentators like Andrew Coyne make the tired argument that sustainable transport is just too darned expensive.

You can find all my reporting on this Canadian Human Rights Tribunal inquiry, which began hearings in Burns Lake in May 2023, here: thetyee.ca/Series/2023/...

Congrats, Chris!

✨ Cover reveal! 📕

"Very Vancouver" will be out in August. It's a non-fiction storybook by me, a kaleidoscopic odyssey through backyard gardens, alley bottle hoards, SROs, Duffin's at midnight, and east-side family life — tales that take you beyond our pretty skylines.

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RCMP Seeks to Quash Discrimination Ruling by Human Rights Tribunal | The Tyee The force is arguing the tribunal shouldn’t provide police oversight. But an expert says the appeal reflects resistance to reform.

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.

RCMP seem to argue they aren't subject to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal: thetyee.ca/News/2026/04... via @amandafollett.bsky.social

RCMP Seeks to Quash Discrimination Ruling by Human Rights Tribunal | The Tyee The force is arguing the tribunal shouldn’t provide police oversight. But an expert says the appeal reflects resistance to reform.

The RCMP is disputing a finding that it discriminated, saying police investigations aren’t “services” under the Canadian Human Rights Act.

My latest for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

@thetyee.ca is holding a super fun event in Vancouver events.humanitix.com/reality-chec... — featuring @rachelgilmore.bsky.social, @jenstden.bsky.social, @harrisonmooney.bsky.social & @vancolour.bsky.social. Thursday, May 21, 2026 Doors 6:30 pm · Event 7:00 pm. Tickets at the link above.

What parent hasn't identified with the intrepid salmon, burning its energy fighting the current only to spawn and die?

Lawyers Group Wants a Criminal Probe of Edmonton’s Top Cop | The Tyee The EPS chief and legal director obstructed justice and extorted, alleges new complaint to justice minister.

ICYMI - This is unprecedented in Alberta.

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I hope we're not going to memory hole the fact a sitting US President threatened to destroy an entire country and its culture—a "civilization". That's not something you can come back from. The fact that it is likely a crass performative bluff for bargaining leverage does not excuse it in any sense.

So... Does Iran have a right to exist, or nah?

Cattle Were Poisoned by BC’s Forest Fertilizer. Now Someone Will Pay | The Tyee Investigators recommend a fine. But the province hasn't disclosed who is believed to be responsible.

BC's environment ministry is recommending an administrative penalty following the poisoning deaths of more than a dozen cattle last summer — but still won't say who's responsible.

My latest for @thetyee.ca.
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