Paying attention

VICTORIA - It should be good news for British Columbians. The government looked at the books after the fiscal year’s first three months and ...

VICTORIA - It's time to get worried about the 2010 Olympics. Not just about what the Games are going to cost you, although that's a ...

VICTORIA - The controversy about patients paying $1,400 to jump the waiting lists for MRIs - and having the tests done in a public hospital ...

VICTORIA - Get ready for some anguished howls from rural B.C. as the Electoral Boundaries Commission starts overhauling the province's r...

VICTORIA - Five years on from the World Trade Centre, and it looks we have got it mostly wrong since then, starting with the fiction that as...

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...