Paying attention

VICTORIA - Usually corruption charges against a union local are a problem for the members, and the parent union. This time it's differen...

VICTORIA - The pine beetle is taking the province inexorably towards a massive natural disaster. The economic damage will dwarf anything Can...

VICTORIA - Back in 2001 Gordon Campbell said it was important to give real power to backbench MLAs. So he boldly set up five government cauc...

Note: I don't post news stories I've done as a rule, but this is quite interesting. VICTORIA - The Columbia Basin Trust is laying th...

VICTORIA - Now that the details about government advertising are out, you can see why the Liberals kept them secret. The Liberals budgeted $...

VICTORIA - You can make a pretty good argument that’s ICBC’s rate cut should be four times what has been promised, and paid out to more cust...

VICTORIA - Somebody hung Carole Taylor out to dry in her first big appearance as finance minister. It was mostly a good news announcement do...

VICTORIA - The collapse of BC Hydro’s plans for a Vancouver Island power plant - and the loss of more than $120 million of your money - dese...

VICTORIA - Check into a hospital in B.C. today, and you’ve got a one-in-four chance of ending up in a place that’s too dirty to meet basic s...

VICTORIA - Everybody got some sort of prize when Carole James announced her shadow cabinet this week, just like one of those elementary scho...

VICTORIA - A posh Vancouver clinic that promises better health care - for a steep annual price - is going to be one of the first tests for n...

VICTORIA - It's a different looking Liberal government today than it was four years ago - or even 24 hours ago. Gordon Campbell's ca...

VICTORIA - That big Supreme Court ruling doesn't mean the end of medicare. Unless governments decide that's what they want. The judg...

VICTORIA – It’s probably not a good sign when a new government stumbles in its first day on the job. The Liberal caucus, old hands and first...

VICTORIA - The B.C. government discovered in March that salmon from a fish farm were contaminated with malachite green, a cancer-causing fun...

VICTORIA - Watch for an early showdown between Wally Oppal and Rich Coleman over the need for effective civilian oversight of police departm...

VICTORIA - One court case, and you get a snapshot of everything that's wrong with the Liberals when it comes to environmental issues. Wa...

VICTORIA - I've watched enough crime movies to know that it's time for Ottawa politicians to start scheduling their meetings for gru...

VICTORIA - My first reaction was to dismiss the BC Teachers' Federation defamation suit against Gordon Campbell as just the latest devel...

VICTORIA - It's encouraging to hear Gordon Campbell and Carole James talk about co-operating to make the legislature work better, especi...