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10/11/23
Author: 
Claire Elise Thompson, Associate Editor

Nov. 8, 2023

 

The vision

“Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics.”

Lee Kuan Yew, the founding prime minister of Singapore, in a 2009 interview

10/11/23
Author: 
Grace Giesbrecht
The Fraser Valley organization helping refugees find housing

Nov. 10, 2023

The housing market is hard enough to break into for the average person. Imagine if you were fleeing war.

Digging through Facebook Marketplace listings and Craigslist posts for a new place to call home isn’t easy for anyone.

But it’s particularly tricky when you don’t speak the language. And when you don’t have a credit score for landlords to check. Or when all your references live on the other side of the world. 

10/11/23
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Bloc Québécois MP Monique Pauzé before a federal committee meeting on Sept. 28, 2023. Photo by Natasha Bulowski

Nov. 10, 2023

Canada’s environment commissioner said it is not clear how the oil and gas sector will achieve the greenhouse gas emission reductions prescribed under the federal government’s climate plan, and called for more transparency around the modelling.

07/11/23
Author: 
Natasha Bulowski
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's non-binding motion to exempt all forms of home heating from the carbon price was defeated on Nov. 6, 2023. File photo by Alex Tétreault

Nov. 7, 2023

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre’s symbolic motion calling for more carbon tax carveouts was defeated, but this won’t end the polarizing debate that centres on equity.

For the most part, opposition politicians and provincial governments have focused their attention on pushing for more carbon price carveouts, calling the Liberals’ three-year exemption on heating oil unfair to the rest of Canadians.

07/11/23
Author: 
Jen St. Denis
Police and city workers attempt to remove a woman’s tent from Main Street on April 5 during a camp-clearing operation that focused on East Hastings Street. Photo for The Tyee by Jen St. Denis.

Nov. 7, 2023

Advocates say the money would have been better spent improving services for unhoused people.

07/11/23
Author: 
Amanda Follett Hosgood
Pro-Palestine demonstrators protest in front of Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s office in Toronto on Oct. 30. Photo by Christopher Katsarov, the Canadian Press.

Nov. 7, 2023

A founding member of Independent Jewish Voices on Zionism, antisemitism and the need for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. A Tyee Q&A.

It’s been one month since violence erupted in the Middle East.

07/11/23
Author: 
Katie Hyslop
Vancouver Elementary and Adult Educators’ Society president Jody Polukoshko told The Tyee that ‘consciousness raising’ about the impact of policing on marginalized communities had contributed to the steady decline of calls to the police department from elementary schools since 2020. Photo for The Tyee by Jen St. Denis.

Nov. 7, 2023

The VPD’s own data, obtained by The Tyee, paints a different picture than the force’s official narrative

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