PhD candidate Asli Munzur looked at blood mutations caused by two cancer treatments to work out potential side effects of a promising new cancer drug recently approved for use treating prostate cancer. Story by Michelle Gamage, The Tyee’s health reporter. Published July 9, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/08/Prostate-Cancer-Drug-Hope-And-Risks/

Alberta’s two-step process for registering a new political party allows the Progressive Conservatives to come back from the dead. But the rules aren't the same for the BC Liberals. Andrew MacLeod, The Tyee’s legislative bureau chief in Victoria and the author of All Together Healthy, reports. Published July 8, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/08/Alberta-PCs-Rise-Dead-Not-BC-Liberals/

For the Danielle Smith government and the Alberta separatist movement, there’s no shortage of grievances against Ottawa to nurse — everything from environmental policy to equalization to the structure of national institutions, writes Lisa Young. But in this latest round of airing of grievances, immigration has been added to the list. Lisa Young is a professor of political science at the University of Calgary. Her newsletter on Alberta politics is What Now?!? on Substack. Published July 8, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/07/08/Ugly-Underside-Alberta-Separatism/

Although Canadian adults spend five to 10 hours a day sitting, most don’t spend a lot of time thinking about chairs. But over the past year, Museum of Vancouver staff have thought a lot about what a chair can say. Two exhibitions recently opened at the MOV, Deep-Seated Histories: Chairs from the Collection and Future Makers: Chairs by New Designers — each has a different focus, but both put chairs on a pedestal. Tyee Presents by Museum of Vancouver. Published July 8, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/Presents/2025/07/08/Chairs-Past-Chairs-Future/

In the government statement supporting its NATO spending announcement, the prime minister declared, “The world is increasingly dangerous.” But is the world in 2025 uniquely more dangerous, in terms of military threats, to warrant such an upheaval in public spending? Christopher Holcroft is a writer and principal of Empower Consulting. Published July 8, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/07/08/Shooting-Down-Carney-Faulty-NATO-Pledge/

An environmental group is asking Ottawa to continue to support an international moratorium on commercial seabed mining in areas beyond national jurisdiction, writes Kristen de Jager. Kristen is a graduate student at the University of British Columbia’s school of journalism, writing and media. Published July 8, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/07/Fight-Seabed-Mining-Vancouver/

“Dealing with noise, prey, contaminants — the control is in our hands. We can remove these threats, or reduce these threats, to a level that we think would support their recovery.” Amanda Follett Hosgood reports. Amanda reports on northern B.C. for The Tyee. Published July 7, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/07/Act-Now-Save-Killer-Whales-Report/

Alberta now leads the continent in a preventable childhood disease that leaves at least two of every 1,000 infections with severe intellectual disabilities, pneumonia or hearing loss. Or dead. Andrew Nikiforuk, Tyee contributing editor, writes. Published July 7, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/07/07/Danielle-Smith-Queen-Measles/

“I think the next generation of Canadians and people all over the world will be used to eating products coming out of vertical farms.” Josh Kozelj reports. Josh is a freelance journalist and was the inaugural Hummingbird fellow with The Tyee. Published July 7, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/WhatWorks/2025/07/07/Moving-Farming-Inside-Up/

Raising the roof at city hall. The auditor general found a city building inspector "personally made decisions about the private sector business they owned in four instances." Jen St. Denis reports. Jen is a reporter with The Tyee. Published July 7, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/07/Vancouver-Building-Inspector-Scandal/