A mother and wife now knows there were no safety procedures when her husband set sail on a tugboat from Kitimat to his death. “Canada has to do better.”

Zak Vescera is The Tyee’s labour reporter. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.

Published on Thursday, March 9, 2023.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/09/Systemic-Safety-Failings-Tug-Sinking/

Blackness can’t be easily categorized as one or even a handful of things. Author Esi Edugyan on deconstructing ideas of Blackness, finding fiction and how it all started for her in Calgary, Alberta.

Olamide Olaniyan is associate editor at The Tyee.

Published on Thursday, March 9, 2023.

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/03/09/Esi-Edugyan-Interview/

B.C.’s budget showed increased spending on health care and housing — great, says one advocate. But it’s spending one-fifth of what it needs to spend on the climate emergency to meet its targets, setting B.C. up for failure.

Michelle Gamage is a Vancouver-based journalist with an environmental focus who regularly reports on climate for The Tyee.

Published on Thursday, March 9, 2023.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/09/BC-Budget-Climate-Action/

A national council is advising the shots for high-risk adults, but BC won’t confirm if, and when, it will provide them.

By Moira Wyton who is The Tyee’s health reporter. Follow her @moirawyton or reach her here. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.

Link to the story, published March 8th, 2023:

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/08/Spring-COVID-Boosters-Recommended-But-Are-They-Coming/

The new $200,000 Carol Shields Prize aims to address the gender pay gap for fiction writers.

andrea bennett is a senior editor at The Tyee and the author of Hearty: Essays on Pleasure and Subsistence, forthcoming with ECW Press.

Published on March 8th, 2023:

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/03/08/Life-Changing-Author-Award-In-Canada/

So why hasn’t the government cancelled oil and gas exploration permits that could damage them?

Michelle Gamage is a Vancouver-based journalist with an environmental focus who regularly reports on climate for The Tyee. You can find her on Twitter @Michelle_Gamage.

Link to the story, published on March 8th, 2023:

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/08/Rare-BC-Reefs-Fight-Climate-Change/

No, says Dr. Steve. Not yet, anyway.

Steve Burgess writes about politics and culture for The Tyee.

Link to the story, published March 8th, 2023:

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/03/08/Please-Advise-BC-Cocaine-Capital/

Ours is one of the worst in Canada. It’s time to take real action.

Shannon Daub is director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives BC Office.

Humera Jabir is a staff lawyer at West Coast LEAF.

Link to the story, published March 8th, 2023:

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/03/08/Fixing-BC-Gender-Pay-Gap/

Nearly seven people a day died in January, more than in December and just under the year before.

By Moira Wyton who is The Tyee’s health reporter. Follow her @moirawyton or reach her here. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.

Link to the story, published March 7th, 2023:

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/07/BC-Toxic-Death-Toll-Not-Budging/

From the renters’ rebate to speeding up home building, here’s what housing sector experts are watching.

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

Published on March 7th, 2023:

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/07/Five-Things-About-BC-Housing-Plan/