Paying attention

VICTORIA - There were no winners in the health care battle. Employees lost, obviously. Hospital Employees Union members face significant pa...

VICTORIA - Health care workers have blundered into a strike they can't win. The Hospital Employees' Union has forgotten that bargai...

VICTORIA - It's just business, Tony Soprano likes to say. Which is pretty much the way the B.C. government has decided to approach gamb...

VICTORIA - The Liberals have got it right on the issue of whether BC Ferries should go offshore to buy new ships. The Liberals say BC Ferri...

VICTORIA - The BC Rail sale is turning into a huge problem for the Liberals. Even people who don't think government should be running a...

VICTORIA - The government plan to dump dead chickens at the Cache Creek landfill relied on trust. Local farmers had to believe that the proc...

It's official - the rich do get rich while the poor get poorer. Especially in B.C. BC Stats reports that the income gap between th...

VICTORIA - The crushing economic impact of the pine beetle disaster is going to slam B.C. communities in 15 years. The infested trees will ...

VICTORIA - The citizens' assembly on electoral reform seems to be making some Liberal MLAs pretty nervous. The assembly is the most imp...

VICTORIA - The Liberals are getting positively obsessed with Carole James. Her name came up about 20 times in barely the space of an hour o...

By Paul Willcocks VICTORIA - The Liberals have made at least a great a mess of the ministry of children and families as their predecessors....

VICTORIA - The Liberals sound lost on the threat of Olympic cost over-runs. Before the first lick of work has started, Vancouver Olympics o...

VICTORIA - It was a sleazy week down at the legislature, one that should make every MLA rethink what they are doing here. No one can be hap...

Poll bad for Liberals, worse for democracy By Paul Willcocks VICTORIA - The Iatest poll showing the NDP ahead of the Liberals is depressin...

By Paul Willcocks VICTORIA - You've got to hand it to Stephen Harper. He helped merge the Conservatives and the Canadian Alliance, a m...

By Paul Willcocks VICTORIA - I'm tired of being the forgotten person in the health care system. We health care consumers are the only ...

By Paul Willcocks VICTORIA - They've been dying at an alarming rate, the young people around Victoria. For the last 12 months it seems...

By Paul Willcocks VICTORIA - I'm tired of being the forgotten person in the health care system. We health care consumers are the only ...

By Paul Willcocks VICTORIA - It's bizarre to see the party that promised to stop gambling expansion now planning on slots in every corn...

By Paul Willcocks VICTORIA - RMH Teleservices wasn't ready to roll over when the BCGEU tried to sign up the 1,600 workers at its Surrey...