Paying attention

VICTORIA - It's time for answers about how pedophile Peter Whitmore was able to roam so freely around Canada even though authorities wer...

VICTORIA - The Mounties are likely right. People are way more concerned about crime than they should be. But their idea that the best soluti...

VICTORIA - It’s traditional that government news releases on controversial topics - like pay raises for senior managers and political staffe...

VICTORIA - It's shameful to see the B.C. government going back to court to fight for the right to deny services to people who really nee...

VICTORIA - It's got to be frustrating for the government. The geologists in the mines ministry are pretty sure there are no viable urani...

VICTORIA - There is something quite wildly mad about the federal government. The Vancouver Sun has reported that everybody hired by the fede...

VICTORIA - It took the Coroners Service three years to complete its first annual review of child deaths. That in itself indicates serious pr...

VICTORIA - The bad softwood deal is turning into a giant mess for the forest industry, Stephen Harper' and the Campbell government.. The...

VICTORIA - The softwood deal that David Emerson and Stephen Harper are pushing is so bad it’s hard to imagine what they’re thinking. The U.S...

VICTORIA - Carole James was due to shuffle MLAs in and out of critics' jobs about now anyway. But her caucus shake-up will still be look...

VICTORIA - Education is supposed to be the great equalizer. All children are should get the same chance to make the most of their abilities....

VICTORIA - When the government's top health care manager quits in protest over Premier Gordon Campbell's "unsound" plans f...

VICTORIA - It was pretty a good week for Gordon Campbell. An Ipsos-Reid poll reported strong support for both the Liberals and Campbell’s le...

VICTORIA - Everybody knew something bad could happen if Neil Fahlman was cut loose with no support when he turned 19. Even the government’s ...

VICTORIA - What's wrong with saying to people in their first two years of driving that they shouldn't talk on a cellphone while they...

VICTORIA - It’s been a choppy patch for BC Ferries. Fares have soared. The Queen of Oak Bay crushed a flotilla of boats last year in Horsesh...

VICTORIA - Mostly what I thought when I heard that Ken Thomson had died was that now I could only claim personal acquaintance with two billi...

VICTORIA - Somebody tried to break into my car this spring, hammering a screwdriver into the lock and then tugging enthusiastically on the f...

VICTORIA - Just when the Harper government was looking a little rattled, along comes Joe Volpe to remind voters what they don't like abo...

VICTORIA - It’s not as if Weyerhaeuser made any sort of case for a $200-million gift from B.C. taxpayers. But the Liberal government gave th...