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BC’s Largest Pocket of Measles Cases Likely Peaking,...

The Tyee: Audio Edition ·

2025/07/10

The largest outbreak of measles in B.C. might be cresting, but there are still pockets of people without immunity spread across the province, which could lead to future outbreaks, say public health officials. Michelle Gamage reports. Michelle reports on health for The Tyee. Published July 10, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/10/BC-Largest-Measles-Cases-Pocket-Likely-Peaking/

BC Ends the Family Benefit Bonus

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2025/07/10

Despite the cost of living continuing its steady climb upwards in 2025, the province quietly let the metre run out on the bonus on July 1 when monthly payments went back to their 2023-24 levels. Katie Hyslop reports. Katie reports on youth and education for The Tyee. Published July 10, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/10/BC-Ends-Family-Benefit-Bonus-Poorest-Families-Lose/

Tough Battles Ahead for BC Government Unions in...

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2025/07/10

Unions for B.C. public sector workers are expecting challenging negotiations as the province struggles with economic uncertainty and big budget deficits. Isaac Phan Nay reports. Isaac reports on labour for The Tyee. Published July 10, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/10/Tough-Battles-BC-Government-Unions/

How Vancouver Is Extra Kind to Land Speculators

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2025/07/10

In Vancouver today, rezoning doesn’t necessarily mean building. Increasingly, it means something else: securing “entitlements” — legal permissions that inflate a property’s value regardless of whether anything is actually constructed. Erick Villagomez writes. Erick is the editor-in-chief at Spacing Vancouver and teaches at the University of British Columbia’s school of community and regional planning. Published July 10, 2025.

CONTEST: Win Tickets to Experience Mozart’s ‘Requiem’

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2025/07/10

This year, Early Music Vancouver’s summer festival Bach & Mozart: In Endless Ascent celebrates the elemental forces of nature, musical transcendence and EMV’s 55th anniversary. By Early Music Vancouver. 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 put on either by us or by our select partners. Published July 10, 2025.

As Carney Redraws the Political Map, Where Do New...

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2025/07/10

Seven seats. No party status. No research bureau. No guaranteed questions in the House. No vote on committees. For the second time in its history, the federal NDP has lost official recognition in Parliament. And the 2025 election is the worst seat result ever. Now what? Karyn Pugliese writes. Karyn is an award-winning journalist and citizen of the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan. Published July 10, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/07/10/Carney-Redraws-Political-Map-New-Democrats/

Madu Won’t Face Charges. He Blames His Ordeal on a...

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2025/07/09

Kaycee Madu, Alberta’s former justice minister, is alleging he was the victim of a racist “witch hunt” after a three-year RCMP criminal investigation into an allegation of attempted obstruction of justice ended with no charge being laid. Charles Rusnell, independent investigative reporter based in Edmonton, reports. Published on July 9, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/09/Madu-Blames-Ordeal-Conspiracy/

Is This How the War in Palestine Ends

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2025/07/09

While missiles and drones fly through Middle Eastern skies, a group of Palestinians and Israelis is arguing seriously for the founding of a single confederated state including all of what we now call Israel and Palestine. Crawford Kilian, contributing editor of The Tyee, reports. Published on July 9, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/07/09/Is-This-How-War-Palestine-Ends/

How BC Opened Educational Doors to Former Foster Kids

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2025/07/09

Melanie Lecoy is a social work student at the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology’s Burnaby campus. Her tuition this year has been covered by a program that waives post-secondary tuition for people who grew up in the child services system. Story by Tracy Sherlock, a freelance journalist and journalism instructor based in Vancouver. She is the editorial lead for the Spotlight: Child Welfare project. Published on July 9, 2025.

Welcome to the Golden Age of Testicular Technology

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2025/07/09

Lululemon has led the women’s athleisure market for years. Now the brand’s ‘Anti-Ball-Crushing’ trousers for men are so popular they’re the subject of a lawsuit. Story by Harrison Mooney, associate editor at The Tyee. Harrison 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 July 9, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/07/09/Welcome-Golden-Age-Testicular-Technology/

For Advanced Prostate Cancer, This Drug Offers Hope....

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2025/07/08

PhD candidate Asli Munzur looked at blood mutations caused by two cancer treatments to work out potential side effects of a promising new cancer drug recently approved for use treating prostate cancer. Story by Michelle Gamage, The Tyee’s health reporter. Published July 9, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/08/Prostate-Cancer-Drug-Hope-And-Risks/

Alberta’s PCs Might Rise from the Dead. Not the BC...

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2025/07/08

Alberta’s two-step process for registering a new political party allows the Progressive Conservatives to come back from the dead. But the rules aren't the same for the BC Liberals. Andrew MacLeod, The Tyee’s legislative bureau chief in Victoria and the author of All Together Healthy, reports. Published July 8, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/08/Alberta-PCs-Rise-Dead-Not-BC-Liberals/

The Ugly Underside of Alberta Separatism

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2025/07/08

For the Danielle Smith government and the Alberta separatist movement, there’s no shortage of grievances against Ottawa to nurse — everything from environmental policy to equalization to the structure of national institutions, writes Lisa Young. But in this latest round of airing of grievances, immigration has been added to the list. Lisa Young is a professor of political science at the University of Calgary. Her newsletter on Alberta politics is What Now?!? on Substack. Published July 8, 2025

Chairs from the Past and Chairs for the Future

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2025/07/08

Although Canadian adults spend five to 10 hours a day sitting, most don’t spend a lot of time thinking about chairs. But over the past year, Museum of Vancouver staff have thought a lot about what a chair can say. Two exhibitions recently opened at the MOV, Deep-Seated Histories: Chairs from the Collection and Future Makers: Chairs by New Designers — each has a different focus, but both put chairs on a pedestal. Tyee Presents by Museum of Vancouver. Published July 8, 2025.

Shooting Down Carney’s Faulty NATO Pledge

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2025/07/08

In the government statement supporting its NATO spending announcement, the prime minister declared, “The world is increasingly dangerous.” But is the world in 2025 uniquely more dangerous, in terms of military threats, to warrant such an upheaval in public spending? Christopher Holcroft is a writer and principal of Empower Consulting. Published July 8, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/07/08/Shooting-Down-Carney-Faulty-NATO-Pledge/

The Fight Over Seabed Mining Comes to Vancouver

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2025/07/07

An environmental group is asking Ottawa to continue to support an international moratorium on commercial seabed mining in areas beyond national jurisdiction, writes Kristen de Jager. Kristen is a graduate student at the University of British Columbia’s school of journalism, writing and media. Published July 8, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/07/Fight-Seabed-Mining-Vancouver/

Act Now to Save Killer Whales, Urges New Report

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2025/07/07

“Dealing with noise, prey, contaminants — the control is in our hands. We can remove these threats, or reduce these threats, to a level that we think would support their recovery.” Amanda Follett Hosgood reports. Amanda reports on northern B.C. for The Tyee. Published July 7, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/07/Act-Now-Save-Killer-Whales-Report/

Danielle Smith, Queen of Measles

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2025/07/07

Alberta now leads the continent in a preventable childhood disease that leaves at least two of every 1,000 infections with severe intellectual disabilities, pneumonia or hearing loss. Or dead. Andrew Nikiforuk, Tyee contributing editor, writes. Published July 7, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/07/07/Danielle-Smith-Queen-Measles/

Moving Farming Inside and Up

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2025/07/07

“I think the next generation of Canadians and people all over the world will be used to eating products coming out of vertical farms.” Josh Kozelj reports. Josh is a freelance journalist and was the inaugural Hummingbird fellow with The Tyee. Published July 7, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/WhatWorks/2025/07/07/Moving-Farming-Inside-Up/

Bribe Offers and Conflicts of Interest: Vancouver’s...

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2025/07/07

Raising the roof at city hall. The auditor general found a city building inspector "personally made decisions about the private sector business they owned in four instances." Jen St. Denis reports. Jen is a reporter with The Tyee. Published July 7, 2025. https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/07/07/Vancouver-Building-Inspector-Scandal/

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