Reaman Miller was drifting until he leapt into the net of the Kwikwetlem community his parents left. Second of two.

By Josh Kozelj who is the inaugural Hummingbird fellow with The Tyee.

Published on March 7th, 2023:

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/07/Torn-Nation-Past-Helps-Secure-Its-Future/

Privatizing health care to save money, while presenting a big budget that relies on volatile oil and gas revenues? Welcome to Alberta.

By David J. Climenhaga who is an award-winning journalist, author, post-secondary teacher, poet and trade union communicator. He blogs at AlbertaPolitics.ca. Follow him on Twitter at @djclimenhaga.

Published March 7th, 2023:

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/03/07/All-Aboard-Energy-Rollercoaster/

‘We’re not going to agree to a bill that takes away the ability of our members to decide what union they want to apply to.’

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

Published on March 7th, 2023:

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/07/BC-Negotiations-Government-Collapse/

The city ends its six-year commitment as inflation rises and the living wage rate jumps.

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

Published on March 6th, 2023:

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/06/Vancouver-Decision-Abandon-Living-Wage-Program/

Evolution, sacrifice, cannibalism — all in the name of sex. Dorothy Woodend on the new nature doc “Bug Sex.”

Dorothy is The Tyee's culture editor.

Published Monday, March 6, 2023.

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/03/06/Bug-Sex-In-New-Nature-Film/

After high hopes from then-premier Gordon Campbell, the world’s biggest sawmill is closing after 20 years.

It’s yet another casualty in a province that went all-in on the idea that bigger is better and now faces the consequences.

Ben Parfitt writes. Ben is resource policy analyst for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives B.C. office.

Published Monday, March 6, 2023.

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/03/06/Monster-Mills-Ate-BC-Timber-Jobs/

Langley-based cannabis company Adastra Holdings announced it was given federal permission to possess, produce, sell and distribute cocaine.

Health Canada clarified that doesn’t include the general public. Moira Wyton reports.

Moira is The Tyee's health reporter.

Published Monday, March 6, 2023.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/06/BC-Company-Not-Selling-Cocaine/

When a member of Kwikwetlem First Nation dies, their life is not over. Their spirit lives on, says knowledge keeper George Chaffee.

But rising water levels are leaving the deceased no safe place to eternally rest. A Tyee special report by Josh Kozelj. Josh is The Tyee's inaugural Hummingbird fellow.

Published Monday, March 6, 2023.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/03/06/First-Nation-Quest-To-Know-Why-Cemetery-Flooded/

A PhD in biology taught me to sniff out pseudoscience, and it is rife in abstinence-only treatment.” Euan Thomson, lead of a national coalition seeking more inclusive community responses to the toxic drug crisis, on the for-profit “recovery” business.” #ToxicDrugCrisis #ABpoli

Studies the government has relied on show survivor bias, showcasing only people who survive treatment while looking past the many thousands of participants who die. And they relentlessly ignore the positive results of evidence-based practices like supervised consumption sites.

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/03/03/Why-Fighting-Deadly-Alberta-Drug-Model/

We’ve had an eventful year here at The Tyee. In case you missed a couple of updates, here’s what our team’s been up to. :fishing_pole_and_fish:

*takes breath* We welcomed five fellows (check ’em out at @/josh, @/kate, @/kaitlyn, @/akhila); welcomed our new labour reporter @/zak, welcomed Tyeesters @/andrea and @/jackie as editors, and welcomed our homepage editor Tara Campbell as our now managing editor!

https://thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/2023/03/03/Fly-Hummingbird-Buzz-Managing-Editor/