Paying attention

VICTORIA - We're quick to demand government action - and cash - when things go wrong. But a $400-million program to help ranchers cope ...

VICTORIA - I wrote about Tasers with some enthusiasm back in 1998, when Victoria's police force became the first in Canada to give the h...

VICTORIA - Look for ICBC to be the next Crown corporation to get a makeover by the Liberal government, a risky move in the last months befor...

VICTORIA - B.C.'s approach to marijuana makes about as much sense as America's great Prohibition experiment in the '20s. In bot...

VICTORIA - We treat each batch of crime statistics like some campfire ghost story, eagerly looking for new reasons to be frightened by a dan...

VICTORIA - Random notes on more taxpayers' money for the old Skeena Cellulose, a successful deal with the doctors and the risks of an en...

VICTORIA - BC Ferries should buy new ships where ever they can get the best deal. But it's irresponsible to bar B.C. shipyards from eve...

VICTORIA - When Randy Bachman and Neil Young are rocking in Duncan this fall, raising money for the next round in a fight against a nearby p...

VICTORIA - It's a remarkable disgrace, the way the children and families ministry has been mismanaged. The people the ministry serves r...

VICTORIA - Expect a few quiet cheers from the BC Liberals at the news that Victoria MP David Anderson has been dropped from the new federal ...

VICTORIA - Remember the Baulnes, the Kelowna family whose lives ended in despair after the government refused to provide money to help cope ...

VICTORIA - It should make you ashamed to see how your government is treating Cheryl Hutchinson. Ms. Hutchinson is 34, a bright, accomplishe...

VICTORIA - On the surface, the CRTC's decision to shut down a Quebec City radio station because its announcers were offensive jerks just...

VICTORIA - The Liberals deserve a little grief for the quiet way they let cabinet ministers up their expense claims. And some MLAs' cla...

VICTORIA - The Heartland, Region 250, the rest of B.C. - whatever you want to call it, the people there have little use for the Liberal gove...

VICTORIA - The Liberals should be spooked by dueling poll results that revealed a destructive urban-regional split and some major political...

VICTORIA - It would have been a heck of a federal election campaign issue, I bet. How would the parties react to news that tax dollars are ...

VICTORIA - The facts are clear enough - if you slap someone around, you'll be in less trouble in court if you hit someone in your family...

VICTORIA - More questions about the BC Rail deal, as new information emerges just as the federal Competition Bureau approves the sale. The ...

VICTORIA - So it's on to the "exciting part," says Finance Minister Gary Collins, when the government can stop talking about c...