Paying attention

VICTORIA - Pretty brave, those Liberal backbenchers on the health committee who took a stiff shot at their government's smoking policy. ...

VICTORIA - OK, the province doesn't have to pay for treatment that could save autistic children from disastrous lives. But it should. ...

VICTORIA - That was a disappointing report from the Priddle panel on offshore oil and gas development. And it's going to pose a huge pr...

VICTORIA - It's no cure-all, but the Supreme Court of Canada has just made a big contribution to ending some of the uncertainty about la...

VICTORIA - That was a weird report from the legislative committee that toured the province getting ideas for the coming budget. They were s...

VICTORIA - It strikes me as cruel and wrong that if I am sick and suffering, with no prospects of recovery, I can't take practical steps...

VICTORIA - Random notes from the front. Good news, bad news for NDP leader Carole James. The good news is the nomination of Gregor Rober...

VICTORIA - The threat to our public health care system isn't from private clinics, or contracting out. It's from within. The peopl...

VICTORIA - It's like the Grinch headed off to the magical land of the $1-million starter home, and suddenly turned into a cross between ...

VICTORIA - The salmon are scrabble their way up Goldstream Creek near here, a spectacle I find mostly sad. Half-blind, exhausted, they fight...

VICTORIA - Even if Gordon Campbell doesn't much care what the voters in Surrey Panorama-Ridge think, he could at least fake it. Some vo...

VICTORIA - That was a convincing win for the NDP in Surrey, a blow for the Liberals and a disaster for the Green Party and Adriane Carr. Th...

VICTORIA - Don't fall for the rhetoric about getting tough on drunk driving. While the debate about decriminalizing marijuana rages o...

VICTORIA - OK, it's confusing, but you should be wildly enthusiastic about the chance to change the way we elect MLAs and governments in...

VICTORIA - Mostly, it comes down to trust and common sense when your government says it has a plan to protect your privacy from a powerful n...

VICTORIA - Call me cynical, but it seems like a heck of a coincidence that the Liberals decided to offer up a sales tax cut days before a ho...

VICTORIA - A surreal day at the legislature. The cabinet minister for gambling says he has no opinion on whether gambling has expanded in B...

VICTORIA - The Jumbo Glacier ski resort is shaping up to be one huge headache for government. This should have been a good news story for t...

VICTORIA - I try to be kind, at least in print, but the Liberals look dead sleazy on gambling. They said gambling was morally wrong, and de...

VICTORIA - The voices of children aren't easily heard in our society, especially the thousands of children in foster care, or in familie...