Paying attention

It's appalling to hear some of the nonsense being talked about the Fraser Institute's recent report on elementary schools across the...

The legislative committee on salmon farming was supposed to set out a direction for the controversial industry. But after almost 18 months o...

There's something terrible about the Liberals' move to hand every MLA a windfall the size of a lottery jackpot. The compensation bil...

It's time for an alarming update on two issues that pose big potential problems for the Liberals, the MLAs' pay raise and the Basi-V...

The government's hypocrisy on gambling is showing again. It's obvious that the Liberals have smashed their 2001 campaign promise to ...

We're not great in the media at reporting on health and science issues, with, as always, a few exceptions like The Globe and Mail's ...

Premier Gordon Campbell is likely waiting to see what you think about political "dirty tricks." I'm curious too. The trial of ...

The MLA pay issue is a reminder that we still have a class system in British Columbia. Not like England, or course, where your accent and sc...

Ken Dobell came to Victoria this week in a bid to end questions about possible real or perceived conflicts of interest in his two roles - as...

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 ...