Paying attention

VICTORIA - What do you know, this democracy thing works. The Liberal government's discovery of climate change, and the resulting extraor...

VICTORIA - You can tell a lot about what's wrong in government by the clumsy attempts to censor Fraser Health Authority chairman Keith P...

Bill Bennett’s fall from grace — or at least cabinet — is partly just a story of bad judgment and bad behaviour. Bennett is the MLA for East...

Now things get interesting on climate change. Not just politically, though that’s going to be fascinating. No, it’s also about us. The UN In...

The latest effort to come up with raises for B.C. politicians is a big step forward over the last debacle, but still falls short of an ideal...

VICTORIA - Those people who argue the government has been underfunding health care have just got some pretty strong support from the best of...

VICTORIA - The people backing two proposed coal-fired power plants in B.C. should be mighty nervous. The Liberal government has been defendi...

VICTORIA - Red tape is generally portrayed as this snarled, sticky tangle that chokes and traps you. And often, it is. But sometimes it'...

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...