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Are We Really Trying to Solve the Housing Crisis?
‘A housing system based on the market mechanism cannot respond to social need,’ says University of Toronto housing scholar David Hulchanski. Photo courtesy of Christopher Cheung. Ten years ago ...
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Is BC’s Wolf Cull Setting the Stage for a Disaster?
Bryce J. Casavant is a former B.C. conservation officer. He lectures at Royal Roads University in the legal aspects of environmental management. The BC government has killed 2,200 wolves since ...
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Dispatch from Alberta’s Coal War
Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more. ‘They will leave a mess.’ Country ...
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Lake Babine Elder Handcuffed, Ticketed after Moving Abandoned Bag
Amanda Follett Hosgood is The Tyee’s northern B.C. reporter. She lives in Wet’suwet’en territory. Find her on X @amandajfollett. Irene Alec, an Elder with the Lake Babine Nation, says that ...
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Trustee Takes Aim at School District Meeting Restrictions
Trustees rely on feedback from stakeholders and the public to inform their decisions, Jennifer Reddy says. She says the VSB’s meeting restrictions means she can’t do her job because she doesn ...
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Harper Now Runs Alberta’s $170-Billion Pension Fund. What Could Go Wrong?
Graham Thomson is an award-winning Edmonton-based columnist who has covered Alberta politics for more than 30 years, first with the Edmonton Journal and now as a freelancer. Get some gift-giving ...
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The Case for the Carbon Tax
Anti-carbon tax protesters, like these people waving signs and chanting slogans as they block a lane of the Trans-Canada Highway near Cochrane, Alberta, are winning the day. Photo by Jeff McIntosh ...
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Oppressors Gonna Oppress. And Get Tossed
A detail from a painting by Jean Froissart of Richard II meeting with the rebels of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. Image via Wikimedia. So, the election of Donald Trump and likely coronation of ...
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Emotional, Challenging Week for Unsanctioned Vancouver Island Overdose Prevention Sites
Dr. Ryan Herriot, third from left in a white coat, stands with volunteers at the unsanctioned overdose prevention site at Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria. Photo submitted. Teams of doctors say ...
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The CPP: Net-Zero Promises, Billions Invested in Oil and Gas
An oil refinery near Fort McMurray. The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board owns 90 per cent of a Calgary-based oil and gas company that signed an open letter calling for withdrawal of the ...
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Controversial Pipeline Fighting to Avoid New Environmental Review
Nick Gottlieb is a writer and a graduate student at Simon Fraser University, as well as the author of Sacred Headwaters. The proposed Prince Rupert Gas Transmission line is facing similar ...
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What Trump’s Musical Tastes Tell Us about His Appeal
Donald Trump dances onstage during a campaign rally in Novi, Michigan, on Oct. 26. Photo by Anna Moneymaker via Shutterstock. Donald Trump knows the value of music. One lucky Tyee reader will get ...