Paying attention

VICTORIA - Two weeks after releasing a five-page summary of its review of the death of 19-month-old Sherry Charlie, the government changed c...

VICTORIA - Do the crime, do the time. That's a fair starting point for looking at the plight of Marc Emery, Vancouver's high-profile...

VICTORIA - Son, I know you’re ready to serve your country. Art school is fine. Perhaps you’ll go back there some day. But right now, it’s im...

VICTORIA - Almost 60 per cent of Canadians say there's no way they want their son or daughter to become prime minister. And two-thirds d...

VICTORIA - The B.C. government's push to create more losers is going well. Gambling losers, that is. The government has set out to incre...

VICTORIA - Little Sherry Charlie shouldn’t have died. The Port Alberni toddler was battered to death days after being placed in a foster hom...

VICTORIA - Some time in the next several weeks Premier Gordon Campbell hopes to sit down with Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer and head off a d...

VICTORIA - We Islanders have just escaped an eight-per-cent ferry rate increase, the kind of thing that makes any consumer crabby. Just like...

VICTORIA - Most parents know that schools are becoming more and more dependent on their fund-raising abilities. That dependence isn’t just a...

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...