Tyler Olsen

The reason we have idiots deriding these rules is they have forgotten that the rules exist for their own benefit as well.

Almost. It's to make sure that one's actions don't lead adversaries to bomb your own elementary schools.

Funny one doesn’t hear more about “Quiet (secular) Revolutions” such as happened in Québec and apparently Spain.

CDS: Stating a negative on Eric Fury twice.

Bluesky: Per se?!

I went to Mexico in May and did not get a sunburn.

Tonight, two of the white nationalists I reported on in this piece showed up to attempt to intimidate me on a private night out at a small music venue.

I’ll have more to say tomorrow. I’m safe.

They also didn’t pay cover 🖕

Mostly I just don't get how you can be satisfied writing the same column with the same perspective on the same issue over and over again for years.

The very obvious problem with this implementation of popularism, as a purely political matter, is that you are *constantly* raising the salience of your worst issues!

Oh, have done Ashcroft-Merritt several times, but you turn just outside Logan Lake.

I've written and published a couple million words at this point. If you can find a way to use the fact my grandfather was a farmer for ill, so be it. You can't live your life in total fear.

In 41 years, I have driven on every southwest/central bc highway except 97D through Logan Lake. I've been within a couple kilometres of the town mannny times on 97C multiple times. So I'm unreasonably satisfied to be spending a couple days there this weekend (for a kids hockey thing)

The thing with atom hockey is it usually comes with some level of tension cause you never know what the damn kids are going to do, even if you do know it probably won't be anything good.

Farmer + logger

Who You Gonna Call? Not 911 on BC’s Central Coast | The Tyee Despite the province's push for better emergency management, much of the coast lacks emergency calling capacity.

I was surprised to learn that 911, the number we automatically call in an emergency, is not available along much of BC's coast.

My latest for @thetyee.ca looks at efforts to bring 911 to communities like Bella Coola and why BC needs province-wide oversight of 911.

thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

Who You Gonna Call? Not 911 on BC’s Central Coast | The Tyee Despite the province's push for better emergency management, much of the coast lacks emergency calling capacity.

Who You Gonna Call? Not 911 on BC's Central Coast via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

Soviet analysts watched with horror as Eastern Europe’s debt crisis began to spiral out of control during the 1980s. Soviet research institutes, most notably the Institute of the Economy of the World Socialist System, which focused on Eastern European affairs, conducted a series of reports on the subject for top policymakers, noting that even Hungary, one of the best-governed Warsaw Pact countries, was mired in debt. Other Soviet researchers examined the role of Western banks in creating Eastern Europe’s debt crises.18 The outlook was worrisome. In dollar terms, Poland accumulated twice as much foreign debt as the Soviet Union, even though the USSR’s population was many times larger.19 Poland’s debt burden was not unique: East Germany and Hungary had even higher levels of debt per person. Eastern Europe’s debt load increased despite the massive energy subsidies the Soviet Union provided during the 1970s and early 1980s, which at market prices amounted to a transfer of tens of billions of dollars each year. But many Eastern European countries borrowed so much from the West that they had to spend a third of their export earnings on interest payments. This was unsustainable. Poland defaulted on its debt to Western banks in March 1981, and Romania restructured several months later. Even the countries that did not default had to implement strict austerity programs to balance their budgets. The whole of Eastern Europe cut imports from the West by 25 percent between 1980 and 1983, squeezing consumers and reducing investment. Even then, Soviet analysts knew, Western banks would not be going away.

kind of odd in retrospect to realize how integrated the soviets were with debt markets and banks despite being planned economies

also poland what r u doing

Mr. *i don’t know why they’re so touchy* is a bit touchy

Probation for Mountie Who Ordered Witnesses to Destroy Evidence | The Tyee Bystanders said police told them to delete videos of the arrest of Dale Culver, who died in police custody.

'The court heard from several witnesses who testified that RCMP officers approached bystanders and told them to stop recording and delete their videos. They were threatened with arrest, imprisonment and having their phones confiscated.'

by @amandafollett.bsky.social thetyee.ca/News/2026/03...

This seems like a great way to stir up a genocide.

Probation for Mountie Who Ordered Witnesses to Destroy Evidence | The Tyee Bystanders said police told them to delete videos of the arrest of Dale Culver, who died in police custody.

A former Prince George Mountie will avoid jail after being found to have obstructed justice by asking bystanders to delete cellphone footage of the arrest of Dale Culver, a First Nations man who later died in police custody. @amandafollett.bsky.social reports.

We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib

One of a rolling set of updates on their live story. And though obvious for us, maybe not super-obvious for the average half-interested person trying to catch up on the story.

The notification/push is partly the setting on your phone, though I guess NYT also controls what gets a push.

Should You Snitch On Your Neighbourhood Bear? | The Tyee Some British Columbians worry that reporting will lead to their deaths.

Mollie Cameron’s Wild Wise initiative advocates for an education-first approach to help B.C. residents change their behaviour and coexist with bears. 🐻 Evert Lindquist reports.

Starting school "later" would probably mean *not* moving clocks up. But it's kind of unclear how the clocks might impact things, since we are talking about "later" compared to a time, not the presence of the sun, no?

Literacy, numeracy and all the rest might be going in the tank but never before have we been so aware of what time it is.

I do think most people quickly forgot about it after that first round of discourse.

At the same time, of all the issues in the world with low awareness of consequences, I think most people are pretty well-positioned to opine on how changing the time will affect them personally.

today in things i say that apparently will generate vitriolic hate trains against me: "oligarchical consolidation of media is bad but also there are limits to what can be done given the nation's size and its deeply-rooted tradition of a free press."

And whether our words or our statements in such cases are seen to matter depend on whether we ourselves believe they matter and are willing to stand on every word. They can have power if specific words and specific actions are aligned and they lose power when they are not.

I think you're generally right but also the entire profession of diplomacy basically exists to carefully craft messages that straddle these lines. Maybe it's mostly bullshit at the comms level (wouldn't be the first time), but people read them closely for a reason.

Sure. Does it matter THAT much? Maybe not over time.
But in general, I think leaving more wiggle room at the start is going to be better over the long run, both domestically and internationally.