For months, former Edmonton Police Commission chair John McDougall has subjected Edmonton city council in general, and Rutherford and several other councillors specifically, to an online campaign of personal attacks that several have described as bullying, intimidation and an aggressive attempt to undermine their re-election. Charles Rusnell reports. Charles is an independent investigative reporter based in Edmonton. Published Aug. 11, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/08/11/Ex-Police-Watchdog-Insults-Go-Too-Far/

This Sept. 4-14, the Vancouver Fringe Festival returns for its 41st year — its biggest and most ambitious festival since before the pandemic. By Vancouver Fringe Theatre Society. This article is part of a Tyee Presents initiative. Tyee Presents is the special sponsored content section within The Tyee where we highlight contests, events and other initiatives that are put on either by us or by our select partners. Published Aug. 11, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/Presents/2025/08/11/Step-Outside-Reality-Vancouver-Fringe/

Dr. Victoria Lee, Fraser Health’s recently fired former chief executive officer, will receive about $600,000 in severance pay after leaving the health authority earlier this year. Tyler Olsen, Tyee senior editor, reports. Published Aug. 11, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/08/11/Payout-Fired-Fraser-Health-CEO/

Drug users and other marginalized people are often targeted by the far right, and the Alberta punk and hardcore scene seeks to be a safe place for them, explained PERRA’s vocalist Helen Arias, adding that the rise in punk and hardcore’s prevalence in Alberta is to create a communal voice against the UCP. Liam Hodder writes for the Weekender. Liam is a freelance journalist from Edmonton, Alberta. Published Aug. 8, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/08/08/Alberta-Punks-Taking-Over/

Dead Man’s Island rises, ghostly, from Burns Lake. Amanda Follett Hosgood writes. Amanda reports on northern B.C. for The Tyee. Published Aug. 8, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/08/08/BC-Tiniest-Provincial-Park/

"Filipino, Puerto Rican and Jewish, Mars exists in the liminal space of American racial discourse — neither Black nor white, and therefore free to move about the barrelhouses, so to speak." Harrison Mooney, Tyee associate editor, writes. Published Aug. 8, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/08/08/Bruno-Mars-Uncomfortable-Appeal-Blackness-Code-Switching/

The arts themselves have been forced into a battle for their very existence. This is not a problem for the U.S. alone, as the same forces exist in Canada. Culture editor Dorothy Woodend writes. Published Aug. 8, 2025, in the Weekender. https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/08/08/Trump-Culture-Reshape-Society/

So why choose more police as the solution? It’s been a failed approach for decades. Tyee senior editor Paul Willcocks writes. Published Aug. 8, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/08/08/BC-Gets-It-Wrong-Human-Trafficking/

A Canadian company is providing the muscle for a new Florida detention centre dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — and the Canadian government isn’t ruling out working with the security giant in the future. Rachel Gilmore writes. Rachel is an award-winning journalist with extensive experience reporting on federal politics, human rights, disinformation and extremism. Published Aug. 8, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/08/08/Canadian-Company-Staffing-Alligator-Alcatraz/

A B.C. Supreme Court justice dismissed the Xatśūll First Nation’s request to overturn a provincial decision allowing the expansion of the Mount Polley mine’s tailings facility. Amanda Follett Hosgood reports. Amanda reports on northern B.C. for The Tyee. Published Aug. 6, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/08/06/Mount-Polley-Tailings-Expansion-BC-Supreme-Court/