Tyler Olsen

Cities have done VERY well with investing reserves recently. So that checks out (though, ironically, maybe not if you think the AI bubble is not an AI bubble like certain people)

The +40% bylaw fine revenue, +14% parking fine revenue and +18% program revenue is something. Maybe it is possible.

But it does not feel like a recipe for a city with particularly good vibes.

Remembrance is something we carry forward I went searching for the grave of my great-uncle, and found that remembrance lives not in history, but in the living.

This is my first Remembrance Day (Armistice Day) in France. I travelled with my son to the north of France this summer, looking for answers to long-lost family questions.
This is what I found...

Canada has the right idea: you should be able to buy legal pot only in a government-run store in a largely dead mall, next to the phone kiosk and across from where the Claire's once was. Because then, buying an eighth feels uncool enough that you won't do it unless you really, really like weed.

It's a funny joke but in 1970 only about 4% of the entire 25-34 year old population lived alone.

YouTube video by Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, M.P., Beaches-East York The Good, The Bad & The Ugly - Some thoughts on Budget 2025

It's possible that Erskine-Smith has normalized dissent sufficiently — at least from him — that he can do stuff like this without it becoming a huge deal.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jtC...

A Tiny Town’s Successful Newspaper Faces a Succession Crisis | The Tyee In the West Kootenays, a beloved local paper needs a new owner. Other small BC papers give reason for optimism.

STORY: Residents of Nakusp, Slocan and other tiny West Kootenay communities are rallying to save the newspaper they rely upon. I look at the efforts to keep their paper going, and talk to editors in Valemount and Clinton about their papers:

thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

*whispers*
Apply for a journalism job in a non-big-city market
*runs away*

Big media takeaways from Mamdani’s victory and the Democratic sweep | CNN Business From time to time, news outlet leaders should look around and ask: Do our stories reflect the current state of political discourse? Do our segments represent the voices of all voters?

From time to time, news organization leaders should look around and ask: Do our stories reflect the current state of political discourse? Do our segments represent the voices of all voters?

The concrete was still probably more elegant entering the water than I am

Here's the biggest PSE story you haven't heard yet: the Canada Student Grant for low-income students is being cut from $4200/year to $3000/year as of next August. It's implicit in the budget tables but the government is too chickenshit to actually say so directly.

super interesting. But that yellow for the 1 + 5 is killing me.

Maybe not but it even has the Harrison FSR there so it's got a bunch of the roads you wouldn't actually want to, say, depend on to ferry large numbers of people between communities

Incredible map of all the roads. Shows how BC is so unique -- and how some important transportation links do not have a ton of redundancy. (On account of the mountains.)

Only as I prepared to head to Merritt to take photos of the cemetery in question did I learn my own grandpa was buried in the marmot-ravaged graveyard.

Also, I found @nationalobserver.com's Civic Searchlight tour quite helpful for this story. Beyond everything else, it's a quick and easy way to get to the right spot in a council video.
civicsearchlight.nationalobserver.com

Sports Fandom Is All About Grief | The Tyee No matter how illogical, the pain is real. Yet season after season, I can’t stay away.

This is it on a few levels. The prospect of death is the animating force of life. And the fact the team you support could lose, it what makes watching sports pleasurable.

When Marmots Haunt Your Cemetery, What to Do? | The Tyee From coyote urine to deer birth control, BC towns are forsaking wildlife culls for other fixes.

STORY: Merritt loved its marmots. Then they were accused of robbing graves at the city's cemetery.

My latest on rodents, dog-trampling deer, and park-defiling geese: thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

there will come a day when there are no more presses, and I will miss them. beautiful machines, beautiful to hold a newspaper in your hands. digital isn’t and has never been the same.

Well this is awkward

Every single play over the last 30 minutes of this game has had the same vibe as the "two people wrestling for a gun and then it fires and you don't know who was shot" movie trope.

Yamamoto is like when you get past the final boss and there is an even bigger boss waiting.

Real final boss stuff here with Ohtani third up

More like Bo Bash-it, amirite

Opinion: Could a device implanted in my brain cure my depression? I was ready to find out Over the past 14 years, I’ve often fantasized about some scan revealing the locus of my mood disorder. Now, we were as close as we’d likely ever get

I got holes drilled in my skull, electrodes inserted in my brain and connected to a pacemaker implanted below my clavicle. Because the depression, the desire to die, had become unbearable. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Journalism conferences are very funny. Print journalists are like "look at me wearing pants" and TV journalists are in full face makeup and fancy suits and dress shoes.

Someone should be arrested for how small Halloween chocolate bars have gotten.