Paying attention

The corruption trial of ministerial aides Dave Basi and Bobby Virk is only days old, and the bombshells are already shaking B.C. politics. B...

The Liberals' problem in dealing with the great Ken Dobell controversy is that their explanations just won't strike most people as r...

Heading toward the halfway point in the Liberal government’s second term and a new poll has some New Democrats in a lather. The Ipsos-Reid s...

The out-of-control Vancouver convention centre project is looking a lot like the Liberals' own version of the fast ferries. The conventi...

It's not good that a private emergency room in Vancouver will offer a promise of better care for people with the cash to pay for prefere...

Another year, another 50 unnecessary deaths in B.C., victims of the government's unwillingness to put politics and ideology ahead of pub...

What if we treated other problem drugs like tobacco? The province’s latest move to ban smoking in enclosed public spaces was a reminder of h...

It’s been a big month for B.C. in the U.S. media, but the messages have probably been confusing for any Americans actually paying attention....

VICTORIA - There's something nastily symbolic about the politicans' plan to shut down the magnificent legislative library so they co...

Mostly, Stephen Harper’s latest budget seemed benign, a grab bag of unrelated spending plans and minor tax cuts designed to persuade people ...

That was a lame performance by the Liberals this week on the tough future facing most of B.C.'s Interior and Northern communities. Even ...

It's hard to know how a government should respond to events like the terrible crash that killed three women farm workers travelling in a...

It's barely a kilometre from the legislature to Cormorant Street, but it might as well be a thousand miles. The street is nothing specia...

Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond is looking like a terrific hire as B.C.'s first representative for children and youth. The office isn't ope...

So who are you going to believe, Solicitor General John Les, who says there's no way the government is getting into Internet gambling? O...

VICTORIA - There’s a few bits that should make you nervous in the provincial energy plan released Tuesday, but much more that indicates B.C....

VICTORIA -It’s hard to let go of Frank Paul and the way he died, dumped in a Vancouver alley, on a cold night, by police. Maybe it’s because...

Where the heck did this budget come from? The government spent a whack of money trying to find out what you wanted in the financial plan, se...

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...