This should be what every press freedom group in Canada aims for.

Anyone who flies often enough to have airport etiquette opinions is too rich for me to care about their opinions

Eby's gone from:

We need to amend the law ASAP, this is non negotiable

to

We can suspend the law while we figure things out, it will be a confidence vote

to

We can wait several months while we try to find a solution

Most of this in the past two weeks #bcpoli

STORY: The Americans have a few ideas to reduce the Nooksack's threat to Canada. But modelling shows that the projects would still leave it more of a threat than in 2006.

In @thetyee.ca : thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

There are also things, like BC Transit, that could be exclusively local jurisdiction but which aren't b/c of previous provincial commitments and frameworks.

Cities don't have money to pay for X in part because of historic taxation level choices.

(Though, yes, X is increasingly items that are or should be matters of provincial jurisdiction.)

It's partly a matter of previous choices & politics regarding taxation. Mayors will note "Municipalities only get 8 (or so) cents of every tax dollar" and say that's why they need sr. gov't funding. Which yes. But also, that stat is directly related to taxation choices by municipal politicians.

OBAT / Secret Agent
Marty Supreme
yadda yadda
Bugonia

Happy to report that on a scale of One Battle After Another to Bugonia, The Secret Agent is very much OBAT

Vaseline

Editorial: We're now printing twice a month - Freshet News We're making our own 'freshet,' rolling out a hometown newspaper now every two weeks in New Westminster, Burnaby and the Tri-Cities

Check out 'Editorial: We're now printing twice a month - Freshet News': www.freshetnews.ca/editorial-we...

You can argue (as many have!) that it's an incredibly flawed structure to give cities so few levers to raise revenue or be creative with financing, a vestige from an era before countries were urbanized, crippling the power of cities to do good

But their finances are by and large in very good shape

it will never not be funny to me that the main way to carry these guys away is on a stretcher

We all have days like this

Can Nature Help Solve the Flood Threat Humans Created? | The Tyee Constraining the Nooksack has had devastating, costly results. US officials aim to give it more space to flow.

STORy: How do you solve a problem like the Nooksack River?
Very, very incrementally.

thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

Ravaged by wildfires, this NWT hamlet is still recovering more than two years later Enterprise was among the hardest hit during the 2023 wildfire season. Today, a fractured community searches for answers

The story of this tiny town is EXTREMELY like that of Lytton.

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

For companies, maybe you can survive a tad longer than you currently expect to. For individuals, you might be able to survive and even prosper, but at what cost to the job satisfaction that is the reason you chose this job over something at which you can actually make bank?

This is the thing with journalism. Lots of people imagine many journalism use cases but the financial upside and incentives are, uh, obviously limited if you know the industry at all.

Honestly, could be a great promo.

The Case of the Experimental Farm Built for 19th-Century Tourists | The Tyee In the 1880s, the federal government opened a new science-focused farm to foster research — and colonialism.

#PlaceDetective🔎: Drive too fast between the Fraser Valley communities of Agassiz and Harrison Hot Springs, and you might miss it: a small sign secured to an antique pillar, beckoning visitors into more than a century of history.

@gracekennwrites.bsky.social writes.

Can Nature Help Solve the Flood Threat Humans Created? | The Tyee Constraining the Nooksack has had devastating, costly results. US officials aim to give it more space to flow.

U.S. officials have identified a treatment for an American river’s chronic flooding of a key Fraser Valley transportation corridor and agricultural hub.

The cure, though, is much more elusive, reports @tyolsen.bsky.social.

The Slimy BC Invader That Came from the West | The Tyee The violet tunicate is a hermaphroditic reproducer that shellfish farmers have been blasting off oysters for nearly a century on the West Coast.

It’s … alive!

Loved writing this story about violet tunicates for @thetyee.ca Whenever there’s an opportunity to talk to scientists about slimy blobs, you have to take it.

I think you can use prices to change behaviours in ways that loosen their grips. That was the idea of the carbon price, just like that is mostly the idea of high cigarette taxes. You can help green competitors by picking and choosing winners. Or you can tax O&G and make them less attractive.

Favouring T Rex is like cheering for the Yankees or Man U. And ankylosaurus is clearly the best.

"Tyler, why can't you just say 'I agree,' without also questioning the throwaway line'."

And, well, I am who I am.

Alberta, for instance, would probably be better off if the pain of lower oil prices was realized as a consequence of its own decisions rather than blamed on people elsewhere in Canada..

Maybe short-term price shocks bring more pain and less signal benefit than long-term price changes. But cumulatively, those signals are important, since changed behaviour reduces society-wide susceptibility to short-term shocks.

Although I wouldn't deride price signals as some free market manifestation, as Jimmy's first post says (price signals are a pretty simple behavioural economics thing, I think, and not to be dismissed across sectors), this is dead-on.

Tweet from Elon Musk: "*Soros Organization has taken over Hungary"

Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Elon Musk's politics, because he wants to brand himself as the insurgent populist fighting the elite, but as the world's wealthiest person, he needs a definition of "elite" that is not strictly rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

Alas, in my consistent experience, the shitty poker player wins a couple rounds but always ends up losing because knowing what you are doing is actually useful.