NATIONAL HEADLINES 24 DECEMBER 2020 |
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Happy holidays, Tyee reader! We’re cozying up by our digital log-fires. Take care, and we wish you the best for the season. |
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It’s Now Winter. We Are Wired to Stay Home Technology changed how we deal with the dark days and long nights. With new restrictions on gathering, it’s changing it again. By Amanda Follett Hosgood. Monday, December 21, 2020. 2020 Hindsight: The Year’s Newest Christmas Stories The pandemic has changed our familiar fables. Read along with Steve Burgess. By Steve Burgess. Thursday, December 24, 2020. White Privilege, False Claims of Indigenous Identity and Michelle Latimer How ‘pretendians’ do serious damage to Indigenous people and set back reconciliation hopes. By Ginger Gosnell-Myers. Wednesday, December 23, 2020. 2020 Hindsight: The Year in Things That Broke Some stuff just doesn’t work anymore. Steve Burgess takes stock. By Steve Burgess. Wednesday, December 23, 2020. Our Response to COVID-19: What Were We Thinking? A new book shows how America, and the rest of us, drifted into a pandemic. We remain imperiled. By Crawford Kilian. Tuesday, December 22, 2020. NDP and Greens Push Trudeau to Answer Vancouver’s Call to Decriminalize Drugs Critics decry ‘incremental baby steps’ in a nationwide ‘life-and-death crisis.’ By Christopher Guly. Tuesday, December 22, 2020. 2020 Hindsight: The Year in Lessons The pandemic was like a nightmare substitute teacher. Steve Burgess takes stock. By Steve Burgess. Tuesday, December 22, 2020. Alberta Government Fines Hunter for Trespassing on Australian Coal Lease Levi Williams-Whitney traversed the land to make a video opposing open-pit mining. He has no regrets. By Andrew Nikiforuk. Monday, December 21, 2020. 2020 Hindsight: The Year in New Lexicon We’re saying all kinds of silly things now. Steve Burgess takes stock. By Steve Burgess. Monday, December 21, 2020. A Key Book on BC’s Black Pioneers Is Back and Better, 42 Years Later Author Crawford Kilian talks about revisiting, updating and republishing his ‘Go Do Some Great Thing.’ By Olamide Olaniyan. Monday, December 21, 2020. Indigenous Housing Solutions, Built on Empowerment First Nations designers of sustainable shelter want colonialism torn down. Last in a series on a Green New Deal for housing. By Geoff Dembicki. Friday, December 18, 2020. Two Very 2020 Films that Are Actually Very Funny To relax at the end of this helluva year, I recommend ‘Palm Springs’ and ‘Dick Johnson Is Dead.’ By Dorothy Woodend. Friday, December 18, 2020. |
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