Tyler Olsen
@tyolsen.bsky.social
Senior Editor at The Tyee. Reporter. Chainsaw + hockey, soccer + books(?). Lives in Lillooet so probably not posting about Vancouver.
'Ain't you had enough of this stuff?'
tolsen [at] thetyee [dot] [ca]
'Ain't you had enough of this stuff?'
tolsen [at] thetyee [dot] [ca]
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.
But it does not feel like a recipe for a city with particularly good vibes.
according to the proposed budget, Vancouver’s climate plan is police
November 11, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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.
But it does not feel like a recipe for a city with particularly good vibes.
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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...
This is what I found...
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.
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November 11, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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...
This is what I found...
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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.
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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.
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It's a funny joke but in 1970 only about 4% of the entire 25-34 year old population lived alone.
What planet do you live on?!
November 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It's a funny joke but in 1970 only about 4% of the entire 25-34 year old population lived alone.
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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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jtC...
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly - Some thoughts on Budget 2025
YouTube video by Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, M.P., Beaches-East York
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jtC...
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...
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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.
thetyee.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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...
thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
*whispers*
Apply for a journalism job in a non-big-city market
*runs away*
Apply for a journalism job in a non-big-city market
*runs away*
November 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
*whispers*
Apply for a journalism job in a non-big-city market
*runs away*
Apply for a journalism job in a non-big-city market
*runs away*
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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?
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?
www.cnn.com
November 5, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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
#VancouverBC - Vancouver Aquatic Centre closed after piece of concrete falls from roof into pool globalnews.ca/news/1151104...
Vancouver Aquatic Centre closed after piece of concrete falls from roof into pool - BC | Globalnews.ca
The Vancouver Park Board initially said that the facility was closed due to an operational issue, but did not offer any further details.
globalnews.ca
November 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
The concrete was still probably more elegant entering the water than I am
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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.
November 4, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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.
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.)
November 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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.
Genuinely delighted to read @tyolsen.bsky.social on the marmots terrorizing Merritt cemeteries. No amount of coyote piss can ward off these marmots. They don't even fear the dead. thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
November 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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
civicsearchlight.nationalobserver.com
November 4, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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
civicsearchlight.nationalobserver.com
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.
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.
thetyee.ca
November 3, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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.
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...
My latest on rodents, dog-trampling deer, and park-defiling geese: thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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.
thetyee.ca
November 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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...
My latest on rodents, dog-trampling deer, and park-defiling geese: thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
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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.
November 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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
November 2, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Well this is awkward
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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.
November 2, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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
November 2, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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
November 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Real final boss stuff here with Ohtani third up
More like Bo Bash-it, amirite
November 2, 2025 at 1:04 AM
More like Bo Bash-it, amirite
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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...
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
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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...