Paying attention

VICTORIA - You can come up with a long list of reasons to shun Premier Gordon Campbell’s “conversation” on health care. Maybe you’re irked a...

It's a fine idea to bring in a rent-subsidy program for about 15,000 poor families in B.C., but it doesn't qualify as the cornerston...

VICTORIA - I can't recall any MLAs behaving quite as irresponsibly or arrogantly as the three Liberals on the legislative committee char...

VICTORIA - Treaty commissioners are optimists. It’s practically part of the job description to be able to look ahead - year after year - and...

VICTORIA - Carole Taylor created a pretty big splash with a single PowerPoint slide suggesting that within 11 years health and education cou...

VICTORIA - Life is tough for children in the care of the government. That’s not a slag on them, foster parents, social workers or the Libera...

VICTORIA - The agency that produced the Liberals' election campaign ads was pretty steamed when the government decided to hold an open c...

VICTORIA - It started to feel like a "Yes Minister" episode as Health Minister George Abbott attempted to explain just what he...

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...