Former Immaculata student Beverly Abraham says she was abused, and then retraumatized when she came forward to the RCMP.

Amanda Follett Hosgood is The Tyee’s northern B.C. reporter. She lives in Wet’suwet’en territory. Find her on Twitter @amandajfollett.

I proudly wrote for the Okanagan Advertiser. Now I mourn its loss as independent community news fights to survive.

Ken Bolton is a semi-retired journalist, recovering spin doctor, actor and occasional standup comic who calls his Dodge Grand Caravan “No Fixed Address.”

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/05/12/Kill-Century-Old-Local-Newspaper/

With Mother’s Day on the way, the blooms are booming at Burnaby’s ‘Silicon Valley of flowers.’

Christopher Cheung reports on urban issues for The Tyee. Follow him on Twitter @bychrischeung.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/05/12/Fast-Furious-Flower-Auction/

Community health centres offer one-stop access to care and supports, say proponents.

Andrew MacLeod is The Tyee’s Legislative Bureau Chief in Victoria and the author of All Together Healthy (Douglas & McIntyre, 2018).

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/05/12/Better-Way-Deliver-Primary-Health-Care/

Following a scathing government investigation, the housing provider says it’s done nothing wrong.

Jen St. Denis is a reporter with The Tyee covering civic issues. Find her on Twitter @JenStDen.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/05/10/Atira-Refuses-To-Fire-CEO/

The WFH movement isn’t going away. While the Public Service Alliance of Canada lost its bid to have the right to remote work enshrined in its new contract with the feds, observers say the deal they reached is a big win for remote work.

Zak Vescera is The Tyee’s labour reporter.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/05/11/Big-Strike-Advanced-Home-Work/

“I ping-pong between wanting to hit humanity with a shovel to being convinced the only way forward is with everyone linking arms singing socialist anthems.” Anyone relate? If you don’t, you should still read “Not Too Late.”

Dorothy Woodend is the culture editor for The Tyee.

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/05/11/Rebecca-Solnit-Essay/

On May 5, the WHO declared that #COVID19 was no longer a public health emergency of international concern. Yet many demographics with high rates of illness and mortality from COVID continue to shoulder the impacts of the virus.

Tyee contributing editor Crawford Kilian blogs about the pandemic.

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/05/11/What-We-Havent-Learned-Pandemic/

Dunbar’s Starbucks location is just the fourth in all of B.C. to be represented by United Steelworkers Local 2009. But even as a wave of organizing hits the coffee giant’s stores across the continent, unionizing is no easy thing.

Zak Vescera is The Tyee’s labour reporter.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/05/10/20-Year-Old-Unionized-Vancouver-Starbucks/

In our most-read article last month, Andrew Nikiforuk argued that clean tech will not save us. Any imperfect solution will require us dial down our all-consuming nature. But many didn’t like that. Today he addresses the critics.

Tyee contributing editor Andrew Nikiforuk is an award-winning journalist whose books and articles focus on epidemics, the energy industry, nature and more.

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/05/10/Warning-Against-Green-Energy-Boom-Sparks-Debate/