Paying attention

Everyone knows about MLAs’ big raises and their extraordinary pension plan improvements. But only Times Colonist columnist Les Leyne, as far...

Two years ago, I wouldn't have been writing a column suggesting police posing as anarchists tried to provoke trouble at the North Americ...

I’m sticking with my slogan for the campaign to shift B.C. to a new way of electing MLAs: “STV – it couldn’t be any worse than what we’ve go...

There’s going to be some pained shouts from the north and Interior, but B.C.’s Electoral Boundaries Commission has done a pretty good job of...

Climate change and energy were supposed to be the big issues when the premiers got together in Moncton. And given all the enthusiastic talk ...

It's getting harder and harder to figure out Premier Gordon Campbell's opposition to photo radar. The statistics suggest the Liberal...

NDP leader Carole James took quite a little beating for her muddled responses to the treaty ratification by the Tsawwassen First Nation. Mos...

Apparently prescription drugs are bumping heroin off some addicts' shopping lists in Victoria these days. Which seems like a good thing,...

Sean Holman has the answer at publiceyeonline.com. Look for the item headed "Reviewing the reviewers."

As questions mounted about the death of Ian Bush, the RCMP repeatedly noted that the shooting would be investigated by the RCMP Commission f...

It's nice to know the government was worried about how it would look, taking some $25 million a year out of taxpayers' pockets and h...

Finance Minister Carole Taylor was trying too hard, I'd say. The big-time spin on this year's public accounts suggested the governme...

The Ian Bush case should surely convince politicians that it's time to bring accountability to the RCMP. Bush was 22 when he was arreste...

The problem for nuclear power - and by extension uranium mining - is that almost everybody has seen some disaster movie about a meltdown tha...

It's almost comical, like something out of a movie, the way a golf course in a posh Vancouver neighbourhood has become a flashpoint in Fi...

An odd public debate has broken out over the issue of oil and gas tankers sailing through B.C.'s coastal waters. The topic isn't tha...

We've crossed the divide, more than halfway to the next provincial election on May 12, 2009. It doesn't seem that long since the las...

Until last week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has talked as if a Conservative government would automatically extend the military mission in...

The no-fly list should mark a turning point, the time when Canadians push back at increasingly intrusive - and dubious - security measures. ...

Investors get nervous when a company director becomes so concerned about its direction that he resigns. Directors are usually onside, or th...