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06/10/24
Author: 
Robert Reich
‘Vance would never have become a senator from Ohio in 2022 were it not for billionaire tech financier Peter Thiel, who staked $15m on Vance’s election.’ Photograph: CBS Photo Archive/CBS/Getty Images

Oct. 3, 2024

Rightwing tech lords are betting that Vance will be the Republican presidential pick in 2028. They’re probably right

JD Vance, the Republican candidate for vice-president, will almost certainly be the Republican presidential candidate in 2028, regardless of whether Donald Trump wins in November.

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03/10/24
Author: 
Cornelia Naylor
Trans Mountain's Burnaby Mountain tank farm Cornelia Naylor

Not quite clear how this agreement silences the "city" but doesn't restrict what the mayor and councillors can say.

          -- Gene McGuckin

Oct. 2, 2024

03/10/24
Author: 
Adriana Zuniga-Teran

Oct. 3, 2024

Modern buildings tend to take electricity and air conditioning for granted. They often have glass façades and windows that can’t be opened. And when the power goes out for days in the middle of a heatwave, as the Houston area experienced in July 2024 after Hurricane Beryl, these buildings can become unbearable.

Yet, for millennia, civilizations knew how to shelter humans in hot and dry climates.

30/09/24
Author: 
Scott Ritter, Consortium News
Photo: U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. CQ Brown, host the 24th meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at Ramstein Air Base, Germany on Sept. 9. DoD/Chad J. McNeeley.

Sept. 28, 2024

Life Preempted

Policymakers in both the U.S. and Europe are undertaking increasingly brazen acts of escalation in Ukraine.

Designed to bring Russia to the breaking point.

If you’re not thinking about the end of the world by now, you’re either braindead or stuck in some remote corner of the world, totally removed from access to news.

Earlier this month we came closer to a nuclear conflict between the U.S. and Russia than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.

Today we are even closer.

30/09/24
Author: 
Adam D.K. King
Photo via Kateryna Babaieva on Pexels.

Sept. 30, 2024

There is a tendency in Canada to overlook the fact that Indigenous peoples are overwhelmingly working class.

Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a time not only to reflect on the genocide committed by the Canadian state against Indigenous peoples but also to think critically about the work of reconciliation in the present and future. 

30/09/24
Author: 
Jen St. Denis
The BC Conservatives could be challenged on social media history, says a UBC political science professor. Collage by Tyee staff.

Sept. 25, 2024

Candidates have faced criticism for ‘jokes’ about white nationalism and links to an extremist German politician’s speech.

30/09/24
Author: 
Chantelle Spicer and Celeste Hayward
A father and his son sit on the steps of their non-profit Indigenous housing in Metro Vancouver. It’s a secure oasis in a city of high rents, discriminatory barriers and uncertainty for many Indigenous families. All photos courtesy of the Aboriginal Housing Management Association.

Sept. 30, 2024

We urge decision-makers to take action beyond wearing an orange shirt.

29/09/24
Author: 
Primary Author: Compiled by Gaye Taylor
Province of B.C./flickr

Sept. 25, 2024

Right across North America, sky high insurance rates are straining affordable housing providers and the millions who depend on them for shelter, while pushing new housing developments and retrofits out of reach.

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