Paying attention

VICTORIA - You can be angry at the Conservatives for breaking their promise not to plug the income trust tax loophole - especially if you lo...

VICTORIA - The Leheidli T'enneh is only a small First Nation, with barely 300 members in the Prince George area. But the treaty deal jus...

VICTORIA - It's a lot more fun being premier once there's money to hand out. Premier Gordon Campbell hit the stage to deliver the cl...

VICTORIA - It’s all unfolding just as Liberal MLA Kevin Krueger predicted when he warned government about the risks of gambling expansion. A...

VICTORIA - Cleaning up the backlog of "almost" column topics. First, to Afghanistan. Six Canadians have now been killed patrolling...

The blog is pretty much exclusively my columns, but I want to give a plug to the new CBC series Intelligence, on Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. It...

VICTORIA - There's some new appalling detail on almost every page of the report into why a little boy was left for months in the care of...

VICTORIA - Imagine two poor families living side-by-side, both with incomes of $18,000 a year and two young children. That's not enough ...

The B.C. government is being remarkably laid back about problems in its big experiment to change the way services are delivered to some 20,...

VICTORIA - It’s happening again. Another health authority is trying to gag doctors and nurses and front-line workers. If a reporter - or MLA...

VICTORIA - It's alarming to think that we're spending $1.8 billion a year in B.C. on avoidable health-care costs. But that's one...

VICTORIA - It wasn’t exactly a newsflash that British Columbians are fond of marijuana. All those jokes about BC Bud have to be based on som...

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...