Maryanne Andrew has been getting sicker and sicker since she caught COVID-19 in January 2022 while working in a Campbell River school.

And instead of helping, she says, WorkSafeBC’s attempts to require her to go back to work have made her symptoms worse.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2024/03/11/Long-COVID-Patients-WorkSafeBC/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial 

 Anyone can walk into Get Your Drugs Tested at 880 E. Hastings St., hand over a sample of their drugs and get informed on what’s in their substances — sometimes in as little as 10 minutes. 

B.C. needs more of these stations, says an advocate. Here’s why. 

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/10/05/Ramping-Drug-Testing-Could-Save-Lives/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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 Speaker Anthony Rota fell on his sword for the invitation of former Waffen-SS soldier Yaroslav Hunka. 

It was said Trudeau was slow to issue an apology.

But it was Poilievre repeating unfounded stories. Steve Burgess writes.

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/10/04/What-Should-We-Make-Nazi-Affair/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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 For #OrangeShirtDay today, students and staff in the School District 50 Haida Gwaii were gifted an “Every Child Matters” shirts.

“I feel we’re doing the right thing when I hear kids talk about why we are wearing orange shirts from a place of knowing.” 🟠

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/09/29/BC-Schools-Truth-Reconciliation-Day/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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 “We are looking to make sure these workers have basic, minimum protections, whether that is wages or whether that is health and safety,” B.C. Labour Minister Harry Bains told The Tyee in August. “What you call them is academic, in my view.”

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/09/27/Whats-Ahead-BC-Gig-Workers/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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 Over the past two months, there has been intense lobbying to change a coal mining ban on behalf of Gina Rinehart — Australia’s richest person — who wants to resurrect a rejected open-pit mining project on the eastern slopes of the Rockies.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/09/27/Australia-Coal-Baron-Gina-Rinehart-Lobby-Alberta-Grassy-Mountain/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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 Cynically manipulating Albertans is a skill well practiced by the province’s conservative leaders. Graham Thomson writes.

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/09/27/Danielle-Smith-Pension-Fantasy/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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 Many counter-protests outnumbered last week’s “1 Million March 4 Children.”

Still, an antisemitic slur was hurled, a Nazi flag displayed, LGBTQ2S+ issues equated to pedophilia.

Katie Hyslop and Jen St. Denis report what they saw on the scene.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/09/26/Homophobia-Racism-Parents-Rights-Rallies/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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 Let the UCP have its cake and eat it too. Introducing agrivoltaics. Joshua Pearce explains. ☀️🌱

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/09/25/Agrivoltaics-Renewable-Energy-Alberta/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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 “This is just killing me. I don’t sleep. I’ve lost 15 pounds.”

Nearly 46,000 Calgary households can’t afford rent over $1,400 a month. Meanwhile, rents reached a record high in August. 

Ximena González reports.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/09/15/Calgary-Eviction-Rents-Gong-Show-Key-Council-Vote/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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 After the B.C. study that gave $7,500 in a lump sum to 50 recently homeless people in Vancouver made international headlines, researchers say they’re rolling out a similar project to strengthen the case for policy changes.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/09/15/Study-Showed-Giving-Money-Homeless-People-Changes-Lives/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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 Premier Danielle Smith’s support for carbon capture projects is fickle and complicated, much like her understanding of the realities of climate change. 

Graham Thomson writes.

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/09/14/Danielle-Smith-Carbon-Capture-Contradictions/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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 Baristas at Starbucks’ Clayton Crossing in Surrey and Valley Centre in Langley this week voted 91% in favour of walking off the job.

They’re hoping the company will return to the table before the pumpkin spice lattes stop flowing. ☕️ @c5287e03 reports.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/09/13/Starbucks-Workers-Back-At-Strike/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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 “Health care in B.C. in shambles”: After critiquing hospitals and the Health Ministry’s #COVID19 response, Dr. Sanjiv Gandhi left his career as a surgeon earlier this year.

Now as a BC Green, he comes for the NDP’s Adrian Dix’s seat in Vancouver-Renfrew.

https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/09/08/BC-Greens-Coming-Adrian-Dix-MLA-Seat/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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 Poilievre would be the most right-wing prime minister in our modern history.

Six of his claims to keep in mind — and expose — before the next election. Jonathan Sas writes. #CanPoli 

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023/09/08/Defeat-Poilievre-Politics-Abandonment/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

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