Hazelnuts and an ancient B.C. city: Research on a tiny nut suggests Indigenous people were cultivating food before wheat farming began in Egypt. 🌰
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How Hazelnuts Reveal Secrets from an Ancient BC City | The Tyee
Research on a tiny nut suggests Indigenous people were cultivating food before wheat farming began in Egypt.
Premier Eby surely relied on the most up-to-date methods in putting his team together. Dr. Steve wasn’t there but imagines it went like this. β€œI hate foreigners,” Spencer Chandra Herbert might have said. Chandra Herbert is now in charge of Tourism.
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Please Advise! Has the Art of Political Cabinet Making Changed? | The Tyee
For Trump, says Dr. Steve, it starts with twisted, nail-filled materials.
Why does Poilievre keep saying the Nazis were socialists? A right-wing interpretation of history links fascism and socialism. How accurate is it? A Tyee explainer.
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Why Does Poilievre Keep Saying the Nazis Were Socialists? | The Tyee
A right-wing interpretation of history links fascism and socialism. How accurate is it? A Tyee explainer.
Is B.C.’s wolf cull setting the stage for a disaster? A hunt to protect caribou could increase the spread of a horrific disease, researchers warn. 🐺
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Is BC’s Wolf Cull Setting the Stage for a Disaster? | The Tyee
A hunt to protect caribou could increase the spread of a horrific disease, researchers warn.
On Nov. 8, as Irene Alec walked along downtown Burns Lake, she stooped to pick up a green cloth shopping bag that was lying in the road and placed it on the sidewalk. Moments later, she found herself handcuffed in the back of an RCMP vehicle.
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Lake Babine Elder Handcuffed, Ticketed after Moving Abandoned Bag | The Tyee
Irene Alec, an Indigenous day school survivor, says she’s now afraid of police.
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Stephen Harper, former PM and author of the Firewall Letter urging Alberta to pull out of CPP, has been handed the keys to AIMCo, home to public sector union workers’ pension savings. #abpoli #canpoli
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Harper Now Runs Alberta’s $170-Billion Pension Fund. What Could Go Wrong? | The Tyee
Premier Smith wants to ‘use the retirement savings of 500,000 Albertans to create a political slush fund,’ says AFL’s McGowan.
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A curriculum framework calling on teachers to promote Alberta’s #OilAndGas industry to schoolchildren was quietly published months ago, to the surprise of experts and the opposition. Angela Amato and Carly Penrose report. An investigation with the @npub1364s...u672.
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What Alberta Wants Children Taught about Fossil Fuels | The Tyee
A curriculum guideline says students should learn their province is the ‘most ethical producer of oil in the world.’
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β€œFascism is not a static artifact wearing a brown shirt. β€œThis damnable political force evolves like a COVID virus with ever-changing variants. β€œIt is not so much a definable political choice as it is a conditioned response to disorder.”
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What Is Fascism? | The Tyee
The question, increasingly in the air, is long overdue. The answer is fluid.
It’s more or less over. Trump won. The worst campaign, run by the worst candidate, backed by all the worst people. Only in America. #uspoli
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Fool Them Twice | The Tyee
America grants Trump, the felon who vows to play dictator, a second presidency.
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The election was rough. The struggle to govern for the common good will be rougher. Paul Willcocks writes. #BCElxn2024
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Super-polarized BC | The Tyee
The election was rough. The struggle to govern for the common good will be rougher.
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