Paying attention

VICTORIA - You’re getting short-changed by the Liberals’ decision to cancel the fall session of the legislature. House leader Mike de Jong c...

VICTORIA - It’s frustrating to watch the Harper government fumble and stumble over the future of Vancouver’s safe-injection site. After mont...

VICTORIA - Newly Green party leader Elizabeth May is already ahead of the game. May captured the leadership this week in Ottawa, sweeping as...

VICTORIA - The people in Kitimat complaining that the province is handing a giant gift to Alcan have been taking some hits lately. Since the...

VICTORIA - The NDP and the Liberals have been slagging each other over whether the government is selling off B.C. natural gas reserves too c...

VICTORIA - Alexandra Morton has taken some serious abuse for her research showing that sea lice from fish farms were killing wild salmon. “Q...

VICTORIA - There are some passable arguments for promoting development in provincial parks, but ultimately it remains a bad idea. The govern...

VICTORIA - So the revolving door spins again at the ministry of children and familes, sweeping Stan Hagen out and Tom Christensen in. Based ...

VICTORIA - How does it happen? How do we vote for a whole new approach to government and end up with the same old politics? Like or loathe t...

VICTORIA - Maybe decisiveness isn’t such a great thing in a prime minister. Critics complained Jean Chretien put off decisions until they di...

VICTORIA - It's worth giving the Senate one more chance. There are lots of people - Premier Gordon Campbell among them - who don't w...

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...