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The Tumbler Ridge shooting is already fuelling anti-trans hate in Canada | Xtra Magazine Bad actors on the right are leaping to connect the shooter’s trans identity to the violence

NEW from me today:

Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come.

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In Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, Trump’s immigration crackdown reshapes daily life The threat of enforcement has created a constant undercurrent of fear for residents of the Rio Grand Valley

Spent the week reporting from Texas’s Rio Grande Valley, which flipped red in 2024 on promises of border security and economic strength. It’s now seeing ICE job-site raids that are hurting the economy and stoking constant fears of families being torn apart.
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Opioid deaths have declined sharply in Canada. These five factors help explain why Overdoses, driven to new heights in the 2010s, are not killing as many Canadians as they did a few years ago. Health officials aren’t yet sure whether that’s cause for celebration

After a decade into Canada’s toxic drug crisis, recent data show death rates across the country are falling. But national averages can mask profound disparities, and experts caution that it’s too early to draw conclusions.

A look at the recent shift:
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The Suitcase Project: Tour with Kayla Isomura — MOV | Museum of Vancouver Experience The Suitcase Project through the eyes of photographer and curator Kayla Isomura. Kayla will share behind-the-scenes stories about working with participants, shaping the exhibition, and expl...

Last Sunday, I led my first curatorial tour of The Suitcase Project at @museumofvan.bsky.social! While navigating the exhibit, we kept things fluid by leaving space for conversation and questions throughout.

This Saturday, Jan. 31, we're hosting our second tour: museumofvancouver.ca/suitcase-pro...

Vancouver mogul Jim Pattison’s company under fire for proposed sale of U.S. property to ICE Canadians are organizing boycotts of businesses tied to the billionaire while Virginia residents are planning demonstrations

A suburban county in central Virginia is considering its legal options over a plan by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to purchase a warehouse property owned by Vancouver-based Jim Pattison Developments to use as a holding and processing centre
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A Vancouver Landlord Keeps Being Allowed to Evict Tenants. Why? | The Tyee Residents want to know why BC’s Residential Tenancy Branch keeps siding with Plan A.

The tenants of Park Beach have been fighting aggressive eviction threats for nearly two years.

Their landlord has painted them as criminals and thieves - and to their dismay, some Residential Tenancy Branch arbitrators have accepted that characterization. thetyee.ca/News/2025/12...

Accused in Vancouver festival vehicle attack was under mental-health supervision, source says Adam Lo had been placed in a psychiatric ward in 2023 against his will, and was detained in hospital in 2024

The Vancouver man accused of using his SUV to kill 11 people was under supervision by his local health authority and meant to be abiding by certain conditions after being released from a forced stint in hospital.
Adam Lo, 30, was placed in a local psychiatric ward in ‘23 against his will.

We shouldn’t let this horrific attack perpetuate the myth that all people with mental illness are violent We should endeavour to understand why violent acts like this occur and point the fingers of blame in the right direction

We shouldn’t let this horrific attack at Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day festival perpetuate the myth that all people with mental illness are violent. But it should remind us focusing on treatment is essential, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

Betty Lepps stands behind a podium inside a program room at Collingwood Neighbourhood House. Behind Betty is a group of supporters urging the federal government to take action on increasing immigration services in Canada.

Just hours after #MarkCarney was sworn in as Canada's prime minister, Collingwood Neighbourhood House, along with a group of neighbourhood house organizations in Vancouver, called on federal parties to address rising anti-immigrant sentiment ahead of an imminent election.

I Love These Streets. Come Walk with Me | The Tyee See ‘the Drive’ through an urban planner’s eyes. And tell us what you value about your favourite spots near you.

Emilie Adin walks us through her neighbourhood to tell us why the 15-minute city matters, even and especially amongst the discourse against it. Love the photos by @kaylaiso.bsky.social @thetyee.ca .

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