An Edmonton judge on Monday terminated a controversial interim injunction against a popular Alberta political web series and podcast that prompted its host to remove all his social media content for two weeks. Charles Rusnell reports. Charles is an independent investigative reporter based in Edmonton. Published March 4, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/03/04/Nate-Pike-Reposts-Breakdown-New-Ruling/

A January report from the Health Sciences Association highlights how staffing shortages for medical imagers and radiation therapists are having compounding impacts across the industry — such as requiring cancer patients to travel to Washington for treatment. Michelle Gamage reports. Michelle reports on health for The Tyee. Published March 4, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/03/04/Shorter-Wait-Times-More-Medical-Imagers/

As Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly sat down for a Q&A with the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade on Friday, the world was watching an extraordinarily tense meeting between Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump. By reporter Jen St. Denis. Published March 3, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/03/03/Joly-Trump-Tariffs-Ukraine/

Conservative Party of BC Leader John Rustad emerged from the party’s annual general meeting Saturday in a strengthened position thanks to a process some party members described as rigged. Andrew MacLeod is The Tyee’s legislative bureau chief in Victoria and the author of All Together Healthy (Douglas & McIntyre, 2018). Published on March 3, 2025.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/03/03/BC-Conservative-AGM-Rowdy/

Made up of some of North America’s leading historically informed performers and directed by violinists Robert Mealy and Julie Andrijeski, Quicksilver Baroque Ensemble explores the rich chamber music repertoire from the early modern period to the High Baroque. Their upcoming performance is a chance to hear inventive and avant-garde music from the era’s lesser-known composers. Published on March 3, 2025.

https://thetyee.ca/Presents/2025/03/03/Contest-Early-Moderns/

A major waterfront park has never been built. The neighbourhoods nearby, like Chinatown and the Downtown Eastside, are spiralling down, cut off from major investments that sparked the neighbourhood revivals a few blocks west. No one wants to explain why the land remains empty in 2025, nearly 40 years after Expo 86 shut down.

Geoff Meggs is a former journalist and Vancouver city councillor. He was chief of staff to Premier John Horgan and has written several books on B.C. politics. Published March 3, 2025.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/03/03/Terry-Hui-Hole-Vancouver-Heart/

The famed TV critic on our digital-era TV habits, binge-watching, writing without a clear plan and whether or not Breaking Bad — one of the most critically acclaimed series of all time — was outdone by what many believed was an ill-conceived spinoff. Harrison Mooney is an associate editor at The Tyee. He is an award-winning author and journalist from Abbotsford, B.C., who recently won the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for his memoir, Invisible Boy. Published on Feb. 28, 2025.

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/02/28/Alan_Sepinwall_Interview/

Exhaustively researched and written with a deep love for the genre’s idiosyncrasies and its practitioners’ kinks, musical or otherwise, Robert Dayton’s Cold Glitter is a musical mystery tour for anyone interested in neglected, forgotten and often just plain bizarre corners of Canadian culture.Shawn Conner is a Vancouver-based freelance journalist and the author of Superheroes Smash the Box Office: A Cinema History from the Serials to 21st Century Blockbusters. Published on Feb. 28, 2025.

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/02/28/Cold-Glitter-Glam-Rock-Lives-On/

Ballet BC returns to Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Theatre with ZENITH on March 6 to 8. The triple bill features three exciting works: a world premiere from acclaimed Spanish choreographer Fernando Hernando Magadan, the large-scale PASSING from Swedish choreographer and longtime Ballet BC collaborator Johan Inger, and a world premiere from a rising star, Montreal-based Andrea Peña. Published on Feb. 28, 2025.

https://thetyee.ca/Presents/2025/02/28/Ballet-BC-Brings-World-Class-Talent-Vancouver/

In my darkest moments, art is where I turn when I need a reminder that there are things other than the daily news cycle. With its surges of concentrated outrage and corresponding dips of despair, it’s like the world’s most unfun roller-coaster. Dorothy Woodend is the culture editor for The Tyee. Published on Feb. 28, 2025.

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/02/28/When-Chips-Down-Count-Art/