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The theme of the Indian Summer Festival this year in Vancouver is “Ragas for a Ruptured World.” So, what does this mean exactly? The organizers answer with a further question: “How to suture the wounds that bind us?” Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners At Knowledge Network, Indigenous Brilliance Shines On The BC-based public broadcaster delivers 12 powerful films and original series to mark Indigenous History Month.

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Creative Forces is a Tyee series that spotlights people in the community who are using their creativity as a force for good. A collaboration between The Tyee and CreativeMornings/Vancouver, Creative Forces is a monthly publication and event series that celebrates people in B.C. who are using their creativity — original ideas, innovation and imagination — to make a positive, tangible impact on those around them. Do you know someone who could be the subject of a Creative Forces profile?

Prime Minister Mark Carney appeared Thursday night to have threaded the needle between Alberta and British Columbia, joining Premier Danielle Smith in Calgary to announce the Alberta government is OK with a southern pipeline route. Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners At Knowledge Network, Indigenous Brilliance Shines On The BC-based public broadcaster delivers 12 powerful films and original series to mark Indigenous History Month.

The cost of the 2021 western North America heat wave and the fires it kindled was measured in records broken, lives lost and homes destroyed. Behind those numbers were millions of ordinary people forced to confront extraordinary times, as our world has become warmer. Five years later, The Tyee is presenting stories of five of those B.C. survivors as told in their own words. Their testimonies were created with the Climate Disaster Project at the University of Victoria.

With curious timing, the B.C. government announced yesterday that major progress has been made in creating two new Indigenous-led protected areas in the province’s north and expanding a third. Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners At Knowledge Network, Indigenous Brilliance Shines On The BC-based public broadcaster delivers 12 powerful films and original series to mark Indigenous History Month.

After a year of research, which included eight freedom of information requests, dozens of email chains and two appeals to the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner, The Tyee still doesn’t know how many British Columbians are overdosing in hospitals across the province.

Stephanie Allen has been a community leader for a long time now. Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners At Knowledge Network, Indigenous Brilliance Shines On The BC-based public broadcaster delivers 12 powerful films and original series to mark Indigenous History Month. For over 20 years, Allen has spent her career working in housing development in the province.

WHY FARE-FREE TRANSIT WORKS Who works: Roughly one-third of Washington state’s transit agencies operate without collecting fares, including Intercity Transit, which services about 300,000 residents surrounding Olympia. What works: Backed by government funding or increases to sales taxes, fare-free transit has proven to increase ridership in the Pacific Northwest, the Yukon and New York City.