Our Crawford Kilian ran a Turing test on ChatGPT, a chatbot recently released by Open AI. It flunked. But it’s still a student, and it shows promise.

Crawford Kilian writes. Crawford is a contributing editor of The Tyee.

Published Tuesday, December 13, 2022.

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/12/13/New-AI-Chatbox/

Northern Health Authority was fined $355,000 after WorkSafe BC found it failed to properly investigate assaults against staff — highlighting a larger failure to stop violence against B.C. health-care workers.

Moira Wyton and Zak Vescera report. Moira is The Tyee's health reporter. Zak is The Tyee's labour reporter.

Published Monday, December 12, 2022.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/12/12/Health-Workers-Attacked-Investigations-Bungled/

Even before social distancing came into play, Vancouver has had a sad reputation as a lonely city. Kaitlyn Fung asks: What if it didn’t have to be? Today we kick off a solutions-focused series on the plague of social isolation and loneliness.

Kaitlyn is a Tula fellow at The Tyee exploring the different forms that belonging and hope can take.

Published Monday, December 12, 2022.

https://thetyee.ca/Solutions/2022/12/12/Glass-City-To-Care-City/

Let us introduce you to one of the many Tyee readers who make our journalism possible. Em Cooper writes.

Em is The Tyee's outreach coordinator.

Published Monday, December 12, 2022.

https://thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/2022/12/12/Tom-Grimmer-Built-A-Passive-House/

This year, Push Festival is going to be visionary, genre-bending, multi-disciplined, startling and original.

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By PuSh Festival. 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 either put on by us or by our select partners.

Published Monday, December 12, 2022.

https://thetyee.ca/Presents/2022/12/12/Push-Festival-Contest-Win-Tickets/

Delgamuukw v. British Columbia saw Indigenous oral histories be accepted as legal evidence, affirming Gitxsan and Wet’suwet’en Elders and hereditary leaders as experts on their lands.

Amanda Follett Hosgood spoke with Elders and experts about its significance. Amanda is The Tyee's northern B.C. reporter.

Published Sunday, December 11, 2022.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/12/11/25-Years-After-Indigenous-Rights-Decision/

With the holidays afoot, folks might have a bit of time to slow down and relax. To help you with that, here’s our year-end roundup of the good, the great, and the the-don’t-bother-unless-you’re-a-sucker-for-punishment films

Written by Dorothy Woodend the culture editor for The Tyee.

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2022/12/09/December-Movies-Go/

With its majority council, ABC Vancouver has successfully pushed through the first steps to see body cameras implemented. It's part of a suite of police-focused measures the party campaigned on, including hiring 100 more officers.

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

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/12/09/Vancouver-Police-Body-Cameras/

Menon on sex ed Sex ed, ParentsVoice BC, SOGI? What’s actually going on with sex ed in Vancouver schools? Akhila Menon explains.

Written by Akhila Menon a journalism fellow with The Tyee through Journalists for Human Rights inaugural Enhanced Access for BIPOC Youth in the Canadian Media program.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/12/09/Sex-Education-BC-Schools-Explainer/

Dozens of migrant workers, mostly Mexican, are suing an immigration consultant alleging she collected thousands in fees to apply for a Canadian immigration program that never existed. Liza Lucion denies the allegations.

Zak Vescera is The Tyee’s labour reporter.

Published on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2022.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/12/08/Canada-Immigration-Dreams-Nightmares-Class-Action-Consultant/