Paying attention

VICTORIA - I am running out of ways to say how sad it is that we are so indifferent to the people who need us most. The families on the edge...

VICTORIA - A train wreck of a scrum with Attorney General Wally Oppal smashed any confidence that the Liberals are responding competently to...

VICTORIA - Did the government attempt to cover up its role in the sad case of Sherry Charlie, the toddler battered to death after she was fa...

VICTORIA - The Liberals launched their minibudget with the normal political spin, proudly proclaiming “Improved Support for Seniors at Heart...

VICTORIA - That was a short retirement for Christy Clark, who is on the brink of stepping back into politics with a risky bid to become Vanc...

VICTORIA - Take a long look at those pictures from New Orleans of weeping, lost people trying to figure out what’s left for them. It could j...

VICTORIA - Expect trouble in schools this fall, unless the teachers' union and government are willing to try an already mapped out escap...

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...