Paying attention

VICTORIA - Of course it matters if businesses and unions spend a lot of money to influence election results. The political parties think so....

VICTORIA - It’s tempting to make fun of Pat Robertson and his assassination fantasies, to write him off as a nutty novelty act on the Americ...

VICTORIA - B.C.'s forest industry has a right to be steamed at the way our governments have handled the softwood dispute. The federal go...

VICTORIA - First notes from the Elections BC reports on B.C.'s most expensive political campaign ever. (With a more thoughtful overview ...

VICTORIA - Give the Liberals' credit for a bold, somewhat risky, effort to forge a "New Relationship" with First Nations. The ...

VICTORIA - There's going to be a nasty shock this fall for parents who thought electing a Liberal government meant no school strikes. Ba...

VICTORIA - It was wounding to find out just how dumb the Liberal big guys think I am. The Liberals had to report that they raked in a huge a...

VICTORIA - It's helpful to think of replacement workers in terms of nuclear war. I grew up with images of mushroom clouds, calculating t...

VICTORIA - You should be concerned that the private company hired to take over MSP and Pharmacare administration is already running into pro...

VICTORIA - The people at the front end, locked in the daily struggle to help children, families and troubled teens, they say the government ...

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...