Tyler Olsen 🍁 (@ty

Tyler Olsen 🍁

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Tyler Olsen 🍁

@ty_olsen

Old millennial. Reporter / Independent public accountability officer.

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Joined November 2009

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Tyler Olsen 🍁
@ty_olsen
Feb 19, 2025
STORY + DATA: The scale of Canadian efforts to boycott US goods is becoming clear. New border data shows crossborder traffic has utterly plummeted in the last month. Southbound traffic during the recent holiday weekend dropped by more than 40% from last year. Link 👇
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Tyler Olsen 🍁
@ty_olsen
Jul 30, 2024
"It was the pine beetle, not climate change" is an argument that shows stunningly little knowledge of the pine beetle and forestry. The pine beetle, which is historically kept in check by frigid winter temperatures, is a great example of how climate change can lead to fires.
Canada West Foundation
@CanadaWestFdn
Jul 29, 2024
The fires in Jasper should hold a lessen to decision makers about public policy, effective leadership and the role of science when there is controversy, writes Gary G. Mar. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
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Tyler Olsen 🍁
@ty_olsen
Nov 21, 2021
THREAD! Nine months ago, I was working on a story connected to the Nooksack River and Mt. Baker. I sought an interview with Mitchell Hahn, BC's Inspector of Dikes, about his involvement in the Nooksack River International Task Force. Let's go back and look at the tape.
Tyler Olsen 🍁
@ty_olsen
Oct 16, 2021
Vaccines are like winter tires, I'm just realizing. And requiring vaccines to go to a restaurant is *just like* requiring winter tires to drive on a highway road. It's a great comparison for, say, certain folks in Hope.
Tyler Olsen 🍁
@ty_olsen
Jun 27, 2021
2017 summer: unprecedented smoke 2018 summer: smoke worse than 2017 2019 summer: actually good! 2020 summer: pandemic 2021: hottest wave ever ‐------ Of the last five summers, three have had major long term events influenced by climate change.
Tyler Olsen 🍁
@ty_olsen
Nov 17, 2021
Replying to @ty_olsen
If you really want to understand all this. Stop scrolling and spend 5-10 minutes reading this feature Grace and I wrote about the historical, geographic and scientific context of this:
Sumas Lake, the Nooksack River, and the historic roots of a 21st Century disaster
From fvcurrent.com
Tyler Olsen 🍁
@ty_olsen
Jul 26, 2023
this sounds basically like the BC camping problem and the BC hospital bed problem and the BC city park problem and various other BC problems
Justin McElroy
@j_mcelroy
Jul 26, 2023
An underrated part of the problem with B.C. Ferries is that in the last 30 years the province gained an extra 1.5 million people, but the number of sailings and the size of the ships is pretty much what it was in the 1990s
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Tyler Olsen 🍁
@ty_olsen
Nov 23, 2021
A reminder that our public broadcaster doesn't have any reporters based in the Fraser Valley, a region of 400,000 that is not at all identical to Metro Vancouver. CBC folks have been doing their best. But it would be better if their bosses paid for reporters who lived here.
Tyler Olsen 🍁
@ty_olsen
Feb 23, 2025
The death rate for kids in residential schools was comparable to POWs in the custody of Nazi Germany. This has been known for years. This is a grotesque red herring that minimizes facts that have been proven. Read the TRC report.
Dallas Brodie
@Dallas_Brodie
Feb 22, 2025
The number of confirmed child burials at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School site is zero. Zero. No one should be afraid of the truth. Not lawyers, their governing bodies, or anyone else. 1/3 nationalpost.com/opinion/michae…
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Tyler Olsen 🍁
@ty_olsen
Aug 17, 2021
The Horgan vacation thing isn't optics. It related to the idea that a leader - be it a boss or otherwise - inspires with the idea that they are "In it together" with those they lead. When that facade collapses, the people who are going through The Thing feel hurt.
Tyler Olsen 🍁
@ty_olsen
Apr 18, 2024
Lytton burned down three years ago and not a single home has been fully rebuilt yet.
Justin Trudeau
@JustinTrudeau
Apr 18, 2024
If you think Canada’s Housing Plan is ambitious, that’s because it is. We’re going to build almost 4 million new homes by 2031. We’re going to change the way homes are built in Canada. And we’re going to create a new generation of homeowners. Let’s get going.
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Tyler Olsen 🍁
@ty_olsen
Nov 17, 2021
It's still fucking Tuesday
Tyler Olsen 🍁
@ty_olsen
Nov 16, 2021
It's only Tuesday.
Tyler Olsen 🍁
@ty_olsen
Oct 25, 2024
One thing that this story illustrates is how our democracy has suffered from the loss of local reporters. If there were more reporters talking to candidates, we would better know which candidates were noxious.
Dan Fumano
@fumano
Oct 25, 2024
NEW: A B.C. Conservative candidate awaiting the results of a recount that could determine who forms the provincial government used a racist slur to describe Indigenous Peoples, among other comments, during an election-night interview. vancouversun.com/news/local-new…
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Tyler Olsen 🍁
@ty_olsen
Sep 12, 2024
Not only does this obviously legitimize Conservative carbon tax criticism for NDP aligned ppl, the side effect will be encouraging those ppl to wonder what other Conservative analyses are valid. Not exactly a path toward long-term progressive success!
Globe Politics
@globepolitics
Sep 12, 2024
Singh signals NDP plan to oppose carbon tax, says it puts burden on ‘backs of working people’ theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…
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