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]
*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*
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
November 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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
The 2021 atmospheric river was wild
October 31, 2025 at 11:03 PM
The 2021 atmospheric river was wild
incredible thing is that Ohtani has hit above 1.000 for three seasons. (And is at 1.236 the last 13 games.) Given that, it seems a bit like a wash?
October 28, 2025 at 8:34 PM
incredible thing is that Ohtani has hit above 1.000 for three seasons. (And is at 1.236 the last 13 games.) Given that, it seems a bit like a wash?
Maybe it's just the white colour? The yellow seems way better to me: kamloops.me/wp-content/u...
October 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Maybe it's just the white colour? The yellow seems way better to me: kamloops.me/wp-content/u...
The missteps include prosecutors deciding a confidential informant was no longer a confidential informant because they had blown their cover, then seemingly blaming police and trying to wash their hands of the situation.
October 21, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The missteps include prosecutors deciding a confidential informant was no longer a confidential informant because they had blown their cover, then seemingly blaming police and trying to wash their hands of the situation.
Black Press/Carpenter Media papers in BC have a new website and maybe it looks ok underneath the ads
October 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Black Press/Carpenter Media papers in BC have a new website and maybe it looks ok underneath the ads
Ah yes, the famously laser-focused administration of Donald J. Trump. Nobody is so focused.
October 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Ah yes, the famously laser-focused administration of Donald J. Trump. Nobody is so focused.
Great piece. Just a head's up, there's a double-period here.
October 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Great piece. Just a head's up, there's a double-period here.
No amount of incentives* will get these condos sold.
*except giving up on a government bailout and just reducing the prices to the market's level.
vancouversun.com/business/rea...
*except giving up on a government bailout and just reducing the prices to the market's level.
vancouversun.com/business/rea...
October 14, 2025 at 9:58 PM
No amount of incentives* will get these condos sold.
*except giving up on a government bailout and just reducing the prices to the market's level.
vancouversun.com/business/rea...
*except giving up on a government bailout and just reducing the prices to the market's level.
vancouversun.com/business/rea...
Although admittedly this might be different if I wasn't spending my weekends in places like this.
October 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Although admittedly this might be different if I wasn't spending my weekends in places like this.
Clearwater at 8am on Thanksgiving doesn't seem like a perfect place until your kid wins his first hockey game. (It's his second year playing...)
October 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Clearwater at 8am on Thanksgiving doesn't seem like a perfect place until your kid wins his first hockey game. (It's his second year playing...)
for instance, the circumstance you describe - the police cost squabbles, are already pretty well covered. See 90(k)
October 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
for instance, the circumstance you describe - the police cost squabbles, are already pretty well covered. See 90(k)
Here's the Lillooet one: You have a road bridge going over a canal which itself then goes over a creek, all of which is beside a spawning channel and a river and a railroad.
October 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Here's the Lillooet one: You have a road bridge going over a canal which itself then goes over a creek, all of which is beside a spawning channel and a river and a railroad.
I mean it has been covered by most pubs.
October 3, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I mean it has been covered by most pubs.
So he wants to create a Crown corporation to get rid of governance expenses. But here are Metro's expenses. Government stuff = <1% of all costs. You miiiiiiight get 2% of cost savings, once you get rid of all the planning stuff. Maybe.
September 26, 2025 at 11:50 PM
So he wants to create a Crown corporation to get rid of governance expenses. But here are Metro's expenses. Government stuff = <1% of all costs. You miiiiiiight get 2% of cost savings, once you get rid of all the planning stuff. Maybe.
Then the alleged pencil stabber ran for mayor????!!!!!!?
September 26, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Then the alleged pencil stabber ran for mayor????!!!!!!?
Smoke suddenly hit today.
September 18, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Smoke suddenly hit today.
With three more days of really hot weather, the Holding Creek wildfire west of Princeton is the most worrying fire out there right now. Still 25km from Princeton. But it's got a fairly clean shot, and winds tend to push fires to the east/NE in southern BC. 3 more days of 36C afternoons.
September 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
With three more days of really hot weather, the Holding Creek wildfire west of Princeton is the most worrying fire out there right now. Still 25km from Princeton. But it's got a fairly clean shot, and winds tend to push fires to the east/NE in southern BC. 3 more days of 36C afternoons.
I thought "is Hincapie just Spanish for Gvardiol" and the two guys were even born within two weeks of each other.
August 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I thought "is Hincapie just Spanish for Gvardiol" and the two guys were even born within two weeks of each other.
August 28, 2025 at 7:54 PM
It sucks when the beat of the song and the beat of the insanely loud nighttime crickets (frog?) are juuuuust out of sync with one another
August 17, 2025 at 5:53 AM
It sucks when the beat of the song and the beat of the insanely loud nighttime crickets (frog?) are juuuuust out of sync with one another