Justin McElroy 🇨🇦

every shirt either says “I don’t see what’s funny about that” or has an image of a popular meme from 2013

I would encourage you to watch the video!

If you want to read about how a public hearing is going in Vancouver, the city provides a bespoke service exclusively to a few dozen X users.

But last night, they seemed to give up providing any final update at all.

UPDATE: after four hours of hearing from the public last night, it got past midnight, and council decided to delay their vote until the end of February.

because when you’ve been waiting 19 years to build a school, what’s another two weeks?

It's so absurdly funny to me how mad people on the Vancouver reddit get if you call Metro Vancouver "the GVA"

the very mean algorithm gave me the perfect ragebait: a former vancouver women pivoting her online brand to dubai propaganda and showing herself in the comments

Here's a fun chart I made, documenting the number of letters in favour of every public hearing proposal in Vancouver over the last 12 months.

Only about 1 in 5 rezonings generate any real positive feedback, but the Olympic Village School eclipses everything out.

Even the mighty sauna.

Tonight, Vancouver council will have a public hearing for a school 19 years in the making

There's some community opposition to the project — but there's also the bigger question of why it takes the provincial and municipal governments 19 years to approve a single school

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Peter was announced on stage as an approved council candidate and will compete for one of the approved number of OneCity slots (to be determined by progressive party negotiations) in a primary

Correction: Azaroff won by about 400 votes.

A shade under 60%.

It’s a reflection of the type of focus OneCity has become: very pro-housing development, urbanist, centre-left without being too tied to the NDP.

William Azaroff has won the OneCity mayoral nomination.

He defeated Amanda Burrows by about 150 votes.

At Vancouver’s OneCity mayoral nomination announcement, where about 300 people are here to hear whether Amanda Burrows or William Azaroff will be their candidate

A Love Letter to Tumbler Ridge | The Tyee The northern community faces some of its darkest days ahead, but is famously resilient.

“For those who are just learning about Tumbler Ridge for the first time, know that it is so much more than the events of this week. The town is a portrait of resiliency. It has survived against the odds and emerged stronger.”
@thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...

B.C. premier speaking now to devastated community in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. | CBC

Moving into our second night of continuous live coverage from and for Tumbler Ridge and Canada.

It is times like these that you most feel responsibility that comes with being part of a public broadcaster. I am proud to be able to contribute to this sort of service

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

One of the more depressing parts of my job is trying to explain to folks that 98% of the time politicians are passing laws or advocating for positions because they sincerely believe it will improve their communities, instead of Shadowy Forces Paying Councillors To Ignore The True Voice Of The People

Headline reads: my heart can't bear

The small-town paper in Tumbler Ridge is going to need support. This is its front page right now. Their subscription page is here:
www.patreon.com/tumblerridge...

Tumbler Ridge is a small planned resource community, a winding 90 minute drive from the nearest city of at least 10,000 people.

A massive number of people are going to descend there tomorrow.

May those that arrive have respect and grace for the unimaginable grief.

correct: seven victims at the school + two at a separate location believed to be connected + the shooter

Seven people in the high school, not including the shooter, are now confirmed dead.

Two additional people have been found dead at a location believed to be connected to the shooting.

Just unspeakably awful.

1 shooter dead after alert at secondary school in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.: RCMP | CBC

Terrible situation out of Tumbler Ridge, a town of 2500 people in northeastern B.C., where an active shooter at a high school is now dead.

We'll be updating this page with information as we confirm it.

Whoever said “never meet your heroes” never met Jim Robson.

Spent an afternoon with him in 2019 for a story with @danburritt.bsky.social, and he showed us his old notes, took us to where he called games at Pacific Coliseum, and was as patient and kind as could be.

What a wonderful human.

Jim Robson did what he loved, was revered by a province, was the nicest man you can imagine, and two weeks ago, just after turning 91, was out smiling and watching his favourite hockey team.

May we all be so kind, lucky and blessed.

The Tyee Is Recruiting Our Next Editor-in-Chief | The Tyee Founding editor David Beers is passing the baton to a new leader. Is it you?

Our EIC Dave Beers - and also the founder of @thetyee.ca - is retiring (for real this time lol). We're looking for a new EIC - please share in your #journalism circles! thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...

HEY THEY SAID CANADA THAT’S WHERE WE’RE FROM

(that was amazing)

every canadian’s favourite super bowl tradition

mayors don’t negotiate specifics of CACs, staff do, but he was mayor for a decade when this sort of practice became a greater part of Vancouver’s budget

Vancouver's auditor general criticizes city over lack of paper trail for lost developer amenities | CBC News Vancouver’s auditor general said the city engaged in “serious wrongdoing” when they failed to track whether $6 million in promised community amenities for a much-publicized downtown tower ever happene...

Vancouver staff told council that if it rezoned land so a developer could build a big tower, the developer would spend $6 million on making the surrounding area nice.

The city’s auditor general found that didn’t happen, and that staff basically shrugged their shoulders about it.

the polish figure skating team in the kiss and cry holding a plush pierogi

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS:

THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

thought about talking about how people saying "the jokes in the new muppet show weren't that good" are missing the point about the original muppet show, but then remembered a 23 year old onion article