Paying attention

VICTORIA - It feels like the political winds are shifting on health care. Governments' interest in private, two-tier care is fading and ...

VICTORIA - Up in Prince George, the city has just lost a legal fight to deny a business licence to a woman running an escort agency. Down in...

VICTORIA - Surely the government will now give up its wrongheaded legal fight to deny help to people whose lives will be utterly wrecked wit...

VICTORIA - It's dangerous when governments do a sales job on the idea of going to war. Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay has just dr...

VICTORIA - So why did Premier Gordon Campbell back a power deal that would have gouged British Columbians and handed the proceeds to Alcan? ...

VICTORIA - Forget anything under your tree. The best present this year was given to private liquor stores by the B.C. government. And you’re...

VICTORIA - My partner’s stocking stuffers this year included a bumper sticker, the first one for her truck. “If you’re not outraged, then yo...

We were making the trip from Saint John, New Brunswick, to Ottawa, for a family Christmas. It was cloudy, foggy and bleak as we abandoned th...

VICTORIA - Solicitor General John Les and the B.C. Lottery Corp. have done a poor job of explaining why lottery retailers seem to be winning...

VICTORIA - I’m writing this as I get ready for a radio chat about the big stories of 2006. Of course it won’t really be about peoples’ big s...

VICTORIA - Who would think that the most disturbing words I’ve seen in print for years would come from a Mountie? When people look back on ...

VICTORIA - Three draft treaties in less than two months. Not a bad way for First Nations and the provincial and federal governments to end t...

VICTORIA - What if instead of waiting for people to commit crimes, you identified and stopped them before they broke into your house or grab...

VICTORIA - You should feel good about Stephane Dion's fourth-ballot victory to become Liberal leader, even if you loathe the party. Dion...

On one hand, it's good that there has been no great public uproar over the latest reports on the B.C. treaty process. The reports, by th...

If Health Minister George Abbott wanted to insult British Columbians any more effectively this week he would have needed to go door to door ...

You can see why the Liberals didn't want a fall session of the legislature. Barely minutes into what they hoped would be a one-day sitti...

VICTORIA - It's reassuring to know that local First Nations won't be hammering a big 'For Sale' sign into the lawn in front ...

VICTORIA - Commentators seem to think it shows some problem that British Columbians have ideas for where government could do more, but can’t...

VICTORIA - What kind of government can boot disabled 19-year-olds into the world knowing they face almost certain failure? Not just the usua...