📣 The Tyee is hiring! 📣 When the cards fall on Oct. 19 for the B.C. election, we’re not slowing down. Join our team this November as a full-time labour reporter. And share this with anyone you think might be fit for the role! #CdnMedia#bclab#canlab

Join The Tyee as Our Next Labour Reporter | The Tyee

We’re looking for a sharp new journalist to add to our team. Applications are open until Oct. 15.

"The polarization that we see in the social and political sphere is trickling down into the lives of youth and children in ways that are really painful for me to witness." This Film Fest Is Fighting a Backlash Against LGBTQ2S+ Education via @jenstden.bsky.socialthetyee.ca/News/2024/09...

This Film Fest Is Fighting a Backlash Against LGBTQ2S+ Education | The Tyee

More students are ‘spouting very anti-trans, anti-gay sentiments,’ says the education director for Out on Screen. A Tyee Q&A.

In my @thetyee.cathetyee.ca/News/2024/09...

A Third of VSB Teachers Say They Plan to Leave in the Next Five Years | The Tyee

The district superintendent notes the number of teachers leaving has declined sharply over the last five years.

23 years ago today. "Everything that Osama bin Laden set out to do in the 9/11 attacks, he accomplished. We have suffered human, economic, and political losses without achieving anything of note other than some benefits for our private companies."

Osama bin Laden Won

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

Paul Willcocks: I’ve been a newspaper publisher, editor, reporter and am co-ordinating The Tyee election coverage with a great team. I have never wanted my media outlet to become the story. But that’s what happened, due to the Conservatives’ tactics.

Sorry, BC Conservatives. The Tyee Isn’t the Story | The Tyee

Rustad’s party has opted for insults instead of answers. We’ll keep trying.

“Education is not about politics,” John Rustad said in 2002. Now, if elected, he’s proposing to review B.C. school books to ensure they’re “neutral.” By whose standards? @harrisonmooney.bsky.social#BCElxn2024

Unpacking Rustad’s Pledge to Review BC’s Textbooks | The Tyee

Educators and advocates are ready for a fight. It’s one they’ve won before.

@amandafollett.bsky.social and I took a deep dive into West Coast Seeds, an organic seed company started over 40 years ago in B.C. Unfortunately for Amanda, only I got to visit their Delta-based farm, offices and storefront in person :)

TTthetyee.caSep 9, 2024 2:44pm

#WhatWorks: Retaining its focus on pollinators, climate change and soil health, wildly successful seed company West Coast Seeds stays true to its roots and sells over three million seed packets a year. 🌱

How a Wildly Successful Seed Company Stays True to Its Roots | The Tyee

Retaining its focus on pollinators, climate change and soil health, West Coast Seeds sells over three million seed packets a year.

my Labour Day interview, in case you missed it!

TTthetyee.caAug 30, 2024 8:15pm

“Ask a school to function without its clerical staff, and it’s going to flounder.” For this Labour Day weekend, we spoke with CUPE local 379 president Paul Simpson about the people who literally keep B.C. schools running — education support workers. thetyee.ca/News/2024/08...

Education Support Workers Are ‘the Glue that Binds’ | The Tyee

Spare a thought for the unsung heroes who make schools hum, says CUPE local 379 president Paul Simpson. A Tyee Labour Day weekend interview.

@bychrischeung.bsky.social watched a lot of Pierre Poilievre YouTube videos so you don't have to (though you could !)

TTthetyee.caSep 3, 2024 2:08pm

Pierre Poilievre, populist pitchman, knows how to put on a show. But what’s behind the video messages millions see? Three experts dive in.

Pierre Poilievre, Populist Pitchman | The Tyee

He knows how to put on a show. But what’s behind the video messages millions see? Three experts dive in.

🦟 “Aedes sticticus” is one of two floodwater mosquitoes that call the flood plain of the Fraser River home. As much as humans have tried to shape the river to their will, its shores will always be mosquito territory.

Battle Hymn of the Floodwater Mosquito | The Tyee

We’ve tried to outsmart them for generations. Nevertheless, they’ve persisted.