Big Ideas: 20 from 2020
We’ve got a global crisis or two — or three — on our hands. Let’s take these solutions into 2021.
How a Famous Tree Scientist Seeks Well-Being in Nature During the Pandemic
We asked famed botanist and medical researcher Diana Beresford-Kroeger about how she keeps healthy this season.
The ‘Most’ of The Tyee in 2020
What our readers read, shared, commented on, printed and more. Thanks for a big year.
Even Horgan Is Startled by How Fast Government Can Respond
VIRAL SURPRISE: One of many ways the pandemic made us rethink our assumptions. A Tyee series.
Families Fight for Increased Visits to Seniors in Long-Term Care Homes
Jeanette Harper just wants to help care for her mother. Government and care-home policies make that impossible.
Dorothy Woodend’s Best Films about Women (and by Women)
A slew of 2020 movies beautifully captured the real and chaotic realities of life.
Coastlines, Cranberries and Comets: A Quieter 2020 in Pictures
The Tyee’s faithful Flickr group captured some incredible moments this year.
It Took a Global Crisis to Put the Shine on Rural Life
VIRAL SURPRISE: One of many ways the pandemic made us rethink our assumptions. A Tyee series.
International Student Enrolment Didn’t Plummet after All
VIRAL SURPRISE: One of many ways the pandemic made us rethink our assumptions. A Tyee series.
What I Learned by Reading Hundreds of COVID-19 Research Studies
I’ve scanned the latest science almost every day for nine months. Three themes kept coming up.
How Yucho Chow’s Photos Reframed Vancouver History
A researcher’s mission to collect the photographer’s work continues. But we still don’t know much about this fascinating man.
Dorothy’s Woodend’s Best Documentary Films of 2020
They came in many flavours this year. Just don’t overindulge!
Hope for the Best from Canada’s UNDRIP Law. But Expect More of the Same
Like BC, the federal government is better at talking about Indigenous rights than it is at actually respecting them.
Dorothy Woodend’s Great Canadian Films of 2020
In the mood for charming, beautiful or hard-hitting cinema? Here are my domestic picks.
Horgan on COVID-19 Recovery, Old Growth, Site C and Reconciliation
In a year-end interview, BC’s premier looks at challenges ahead for his majority government.
Science as Saviour? A Lot of People Saw Experts as Enemies
VIRAL SURPRISE: One of many ways the pandemic made us rethink our assumptions. A Tyee series.
2020 Hindsight: Two New Christmas Carols for a Rough Year
Sing along (from a distance) with Steve Burgess and The Tyee. And happy holidays.
I Can’t Do Much in the Pandemic. But I Can Give Blood
And that has given this health reporter a small sense of control, and relief.
2020 Hindsight: The Year’s Newest Christmas Stories
The pandemic has changed our familiar fables. Read along with Steve Burgess.
After Life on the Street, a Christmas Tree Meant Home
‘When I moved into the Regent, I didn’t care — I was going to make it a home.’
Editor's Pick
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A Key Book on BC’s Black Pioneers Is Back and Better, 42 Years Later
Author Crawford Kilian talks about revisiting, updating and republishing his ‘Go Do Some Great Thing.’
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Alberta Government Fines Hunter for Trespassing on Australian Coal Lease
Levi Williams-Whitney traversed the land to make a video opposing open-pit mining. He has no regrets.
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Congratulations, Andrew Nikiforuk!
The Tyee’s resident pandemic expert, Andrew Nikiforuk, took home Commentator of the Year at this year’s Websters, B.C.’s top journalism awards.
Author of two books about pandemics, Nikiforuk is well situated to analyze the COVID-19 crisis. Since the pandemic began, he’s been rolling out hit after hit after hit. He also won an award for Science, Technology and Environment journalism for a co-written piece in Hakai magazine.
Read more about these awards and the other Tyee work that received nominations at this year’s Websters.
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This Bubble Life, as Drawn by Tyee Readers
We asked you to submit art depicting your reality today, and you delivered. Step into the gallery.
The ‘Most’ of The Tyee in 2020
What our readers read, shared, commented on, printed and more. Thanks for a big year.
The Tyee Is Proud to Be a Founding Member of Press Forward
Independent news media has arrived in Canada. A new association will help the sector thrive.
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It’s Now Winter. We Are Wired to Stay Home
Technology changed how we deal with the dark days and long nights. With new restrictions on gathering, it’s changing it again.
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Big Ideas: 20 from 2020
We’ve got a global crisis or two — or three — on our hands. Let’s take these solutions into 2021.
Dorothy Woodend’s Best Films about Women (and by Women)
A slew of 2020 movies beautifully captured the real and chaotic realities of life.
Coastlines, Cranberries and Comets: A Quieter 2020 in Pictures
The Tyee’s faithful Flickr group captured some incredible moments this year.
How Yucho Chow’s Photos Reframed Vancouver History
A researcher’s mission to collect the photographer’s work continues. But we still don’t know much about this fascinating man.
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Harm Reduction Through Overdose Prevention
B.C.'s overdose crisis is taking many more lives than the COVID-19 pandemic.
Three years after the provincial NDP government created a ministry to focus on mental health and addictions, we probed how it was working.
In recent years, The Tyee has covered solutions, including prescription street drugs and opioid-assisted treatment. And we’ve said how Vancouver’s mayor could help end the opioid crisis.
In September, Dr. Bonnie Henry issued a public health order for nurses to prescribe controlled substances. Last month Vancouver city council approved the first permanent OPS outside the Downtown Eastside,
and now is moving to decriminalize drugs in the city.Much more can be done. Dive deep to understand how.
Vancouver Aims to Become First Canadian City to Decriminalize Drugs
Mayor Kennedy Stewart says the proposal could be approved ‘within a matter of months.’
BC Created a Ministry to Deal with the Overdose Crisis. Is It Working?
Deaths are down but ODs keep climbing. Critics call for more funding and bolder policies.
How Vancouver’s Next Mayor Can Help End the Opioid Crisis
Three experts on the frontlines weigh in.
An Urgent Call on Overdose Crisis: Prescribe Drugs, End Prohibition
Simply put, ‘fentanyl is a product of our drug policies.’ Second in a series.
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Hope at the End of a Hard Year
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This year, I am giving my grandchildren an IOU.
I owe them days at the playground, days at the water park, days sitting on a bench and eating ice cream, days at the bookshops and toy shops, and at the library.
Days when they can hang around here and make cookies and lemonade, and veg out on the bed in the spare room.
Days when we will set up the blow up pool in the backyard and mum and dad will come over for dinner and we will all have a good time.
This is a time for reflection. Here is to hoping things will get better next year.