Tyler Olsen

Beyond the Headlines: Covering Local Elections Join us for a night of snacks, Squamish Trivia, and tales from those who have been covering municipal politics and elections from across B.C

There are a couple tickets left for an event I'm doing with @tyolsen.bsky.social and @editorthuncher.bsky.social in Squamish tonight on covering local politics

Come by if you want to nerd out for a couple hours!

i would say you could hop on transit but you know

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So, uh, I can find no other source for these pretty strong words. Makes me suspect this might be some AI-stoked wish fulfillment. If you can find these quotes elsewhere, lemme know

42% of those that live in poverty are working.

Many people still think of poverty as something that happens when people don’t work. But the reality is different: majority of people who live in poverty in Canada are working or live in families who work. @gillianpetit.bsky.social and my 2026 chart to watch www.theglobeandmail.com/business/eco...

Lapu Lapu Victims Deserved to Know They’d Been Snooped On | The Tyee But the government only told them following recommendations from the privacy commissioner. That approach needs to change.

Paternalism continues to be the go-to move when health-care and government officials are deciding whether to release potentially distressing information to the public, writes @tyolsen.bsky.social.

This is actually what travel agents (my aunt was one) used to do. The mark-up was how they got paid for the time spent collecting various options and helping make plans.

My latest--a look at whether Carney intends to carry out the economic policies he upholds in his book, or will just go with the neoliberal flow:

"How bad were the Americans outplayed? Well..."

very interesting but really does look like there's not much really surprising there. Seems reflective of the sample. (also I was kinda wrong b/c many American players will have played some college hockey, though the scale of that education will vary.)

well, that presumably comes from registered voters so they're doing what they can with the data they have but yeah, it's not close to representative of all players.

(men)

People are surprised by this in ways that they might not be if you looked at polling of, say, uneducated white twenty-something American millionaires.

oh yeah. it's not actually a 'scandal'

Like, sure, Canada lost to a tremendous goaltending performance. But we didn't leave Gretzky on the bench or bring Rob Zamuner, and the country that did win are now deep in recriminations. Meanwhile, the Canadian scandal right now is the way Nate MacKinnon looked at that stuffed animal.

Watching the US Olympic post-gold stuff and seeing the country punch itself in the face has really helped take the sting out of Sunday's loss, eh?

In Europe, hockey fandom is nationalistic b/c of parallels with soccer and a lack of top-end teams. In North America, there's the real legacy of the '72 Summit Series and '80 Olympics being massive politics-infused cultural markers.

It's mostly because you aren't also a national team fan because there's not much history of significant national team competition, and that's not the case in hockey or soccer, where the stakes feel quite high b/c of history. (i.e. one grows up legit caring about how the national team does)

Same as for NHL Olympics, there needs to be enough excitement around the event itself. The "half-assed tournament" part is the problem.

You're doing your part! good job!

Annihilating the problem is... a challenge. But there are immediate small things people can do to push back. In a war, real or info, most people are not atomic bomber pilots. Most are soldiers doing their little part.

Nothing "solves" it. But Twitter's slice of the attention pie is still very small. People only have so much time on their hands and the more time they spend on useful stuff (sourced elsewhere, from a variety of outlets) the less attractive Twitter becomes as a way to spend time.

The counter-response here is pretty clear. It isn't to shout at people you like to get off X. It is to create and fund alternative media sources to X that fosters the opposite effects.

(And it is far cheaper to buy/fund a local news source than to create a new money-losing app.)

The "socialist" (instead of socialite) under Hilton suggests some need for.... skepticism of this. (Theron, for one, does not appear to be a supporter.)

Beyond the Headlines: Covering Local Elections Join us for a night of snacks, Squamish Trivia, and tales from those who have been covering municipal politics and elections from across B.C

I'll be in Squamish this Thursday chatting with @jmcelroy.bsky.social and @editorthuncher.bsky.social about municipal politics, journalism, and issues that will surface during the upcoming civic elections this fall.
Still some (but not a ton) free tickets here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/beyond-the...

Why the Federal Model for First Nations Housing Must Be Replaced | The Tyee Canada’s system of dependency must be dismantled and rebuilt under First Nations jurisdiction.

Why the Federal Model for First Nations Housing Must Be Replaced via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

I think this is where AI might be able to help: Not in replacing people currently doing X work, but by providing a tool that helps enable work that is currently not getting done b/c of the immense lift required. (See: medical record stuff.)

I get this but also it's true that you can only kick the can so far down the road and the longer you do so, the harder the problem tends to get. I do wonder if AI can help allow some of these systemic upgrades -- if not writing the code, then providing another layer of analysis.

this is basically what every single bit of critical infrastructure looks like: someone you'll never meet in an office exactly like this ensuring that the shit pumps continue to move the shit away from your house.

If you employ 10 reporters, you really don't want each of them spending their time making videos of highly variable quality. You want your good-talking people to make good videos and your bad-talking ppl (like me) to spend their time finding things out/refining.

Interesting thread. Hard to predict where anything is going but as a journalism distribution platform, short-form videos seems to be begging for efficiencies of scale/talent, where a team of journalists assign the most charismatic among them to do the front-facing work (like a podcast/newscast!)

7. That takes densification and time. It is already happening at a fairly fast rate. But we live in a democracy and, whether we like it or not, it won't continue to happen if people who live in these places feel they are losing more than they are gaining.