“The two things that are getting the most expensive are the two things that people can’t afford to cut corners on.”

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

Published on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/11/17/Rent-Food-Push-Living-Wage-Up-17-Per-Cent/

Bridgeland-Riverside continues to have a high concentration of low-income residents — 10 per cent of Calgary’s non-market housing stock is located there — but that’s changing as eviction deadlines loom for longterm residents. Ximena González reports.

Ximena González is a freelance writer and editor based in Calgary. Her work has appeared in the Globe and Mail and the Sprawl.

Published on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/11/17/Breath-New-Life-Gentrification-Latest-Casualty/

The media showed tepid interest in the latest antics of the Florida man it usually obsesses over. @HarrisAuthor writes.

Michael Harris, a Tyee contributing editor, is a highly awarded journalist. Author of Party of One, the bestselling exposé of the Harper government, his investigations have sparked four commissions of inquiry.

Published on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/11/17/Trump-Fizzled-Relaunch/

Flooded water and debris from the Kenney dam has made boating hazardous and barriers for wildlife. But the Cheslatta Carrier Nation and B.C. government are attempting to reverse some of those impacts — and it seems to be working. Amanda Follett Hosgood reports.

Amanda Follett Hosgood is The Tyee’s northern B.C. reporter. She lives in Wet’suwet’en territory.

Published on Thursday, Nov. 17, 2022

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/11/17/Rescuing-Caribou-Dam-Damage/

BC United sounds a lot like Alberta’s United Conservative Party, no?

By Steve Burgess who writes about politics and culture for The Tyee.

Link to the story, published on Nov. 16, 2022:

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2022/11/16/Please-Advise-BC-Libs-Jason-Kenney-Brand/

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s claim to Alberta exceptionalism was central to her pitch for party leadership. Lucky for her, rational thought is a hard sell in Alberta these days.

By Mitchell Anderson who is a freelance writer and frequent contributor to The Tyee.

Link to the story, published Nov. 16th, 2022:

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2022/11/16/Alberta-Childlike-Fantasies/

In just a few hours in June 2020, B.C.’s office in charge of dam safety stamped a request to embark on a costly fix at the #SiteC construction project — the bureaucratic equivalent of waiting in a Tim Hortons drive-thru for a double-double. Ben Parfitt writes.

By Ben Parfitt who is a resource policy analyst with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives B.C. office.

Link to the story published on Nov. 16th, 2022:

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/11/16/Site-C-Slippery-Slope/

Human trafficking and sex work are not the same, and yet are constantly grouped together by advocates, policymakers and the media. Angela Wu of Swan Vancouver on what happens when we conflate the two.

Angela Wu is a project manager at SWAN Vancouver, an organization that supports and advocates for the rights and safety of immigrant and migrant women engaged in sex work.

Link to the story published on Nov. 16th, 2022:

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2022/11/16/Oppose-Trafficking-Support-Sex-Workers-Rights/

One moment, the bunnymen seem chipper and upbeat. In the next, they’re all menacing. Dorothy Woodend dared to visit Bill Pechet’s “Who’s There” at the Bothkinds Project Space in Vancouver.

By Dorothy Woodend who is the culture editor for The Tyee.

Link to the story published on Nov. 16th, 2022:

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2022/11/16/Bill-Pechet-Exhibit/

“Look at the rate that men are dying.” Good data is scarce, but a troubling picture of substance use in the trades surfaces — and a crisis of masculinity.

Zak Vescera reports. Zak is The Tyee's labour reporter.

Published Tuesday, November 25, 2022.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/11/15/Drugs-Death-Denial-Job/