In the first of five Vancouver mayoral candidate interviews, Tyee reporter Jen St. Denis asked ABC Vancouver mayoral candidate Ken Sim about housing, the overdose crisis, and his promise to hire 100 cops & return police officers to Vancouver schools.

Jen St. Denis is The Tyee's Downtown Eastside reporter.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/09/26/Ken-Sim-Wants-Mayor-Vancouver/

Internal records released to The Tyee in response to an FOI request confirm critics’ suspicions that B.C.’s Special Tree Protection Regulation was meant to sound good to the public while protecting the interests of the logging industry.

Andrew MacLeod, The Tyee's legislative bureau chief, reports.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/09/26/BC-Big-Trees-Protection-Toothless-Government-Knew/

Ending the subsidies would free almost $500 million that the public system desperately needs.

By Alex Hemingway who is a senior economist and public finance analyst at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, B.C. Office.

Link to the story published Sept. 26, 2022:

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/09/26/Why-Public-Dollars-Private-Schools-Rising/

As some campaign on ‘law and order,’ the province rolls out a new report on repeat offenders. We break it down.

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

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/09/23/Crime-Vancouver-Election/

‘If you give us restrictions, we get to get creative.’

andrea bennett is managing editor of The Tyee.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2022/09/23/Day-In-Life-Intimacy-Coordinator/

Nineteen days after he was discharged from hospital, my dad took his own life. Here’s why we need to revisit BC’s Mental Health Act.

Kyle Fawkes is a grassroots mental health advocate seeking to drive policy change in B.C. Find him on Twitter at @KyleFawkes.

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2022/09/23/For-My-Father-Who-Should-Have-Lived/

WATCH: Visit the creative colony carved from a dying motel in a fast gentrifying city. A Tyee mini-documentary.

Sonal Gupta is a multimedia journalist and filmmaker who is interested in solutions-focused stories. Follow her on Instagram @itravelette.

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2022/09/23/Artist-Motel-Inside-Vancouver-Experiment/

After the virus harmed Chris Goodnow’s heart, he joined a growing chorus against reinfection complacency.

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/2022/09/23/Top-Immunologist-Dropping-COVID-Hubris/

An animated documentary follows a group of unlikely rebels as they risk their lives to stand up to Chinese government.

Written by Dorothy Woodend who is the culture editor for The Tyee.

Link to the story published Sept. 22, 2022:

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2022/09/22/Hopeful-Heart-Eternal-Spring/

A British medical journal concluded our response to COVID-19 was “nothing less than a massive global failure.” To change, try “prosociality” — the approach of tending to society’s needs rather than narrow, individual interests. Crawford Kilian explains.

The pillars to a cooperative response to infection diseases?

Prevention

Containment

Health services

Equity

Global innovation

Where to apply this next, asks @Crof? The pandemic of dementia.

Tyee contributing editor Crawford Kilian blogs about the Politics of Dementia.

Link to the story, published Set 22, 2022:

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2022/09/22/Why-We-Need-Prosocial-Revolution/