Paying attention

The great booster seat controversy is mostly depressing. And it leaves me wondering what happened to Linda Reid, the minister responsible. I...

The bad thing isn’t necessarily that so many people are dying after being tasered by police. What’s really worrying is that police forces - ...

The news is getting and grimmer on the pine beetle front. Yet the crisis still doesn't seem to have really captured the political and pu...

It's going to be a crabby 18 months until the next election, at least based on the first week of the fall legislative sitting. The MLAs ...

There’s a big uproar next door in Alberta, one that could end the Conservatives’ 36-year domination of the legislature. And one that could s...

One of the interesting things to come in next week's fall legislature session will be Gordon Campbell's plan for new electoral bound...

There’s likely one question on most peoples’ minds after Premier Gordon Campbell’s big climate-change speech. What’s he talking about? At th...

I mostly write about provincial issues, but every now and then something comes along that's too bizarrely interesting to ignore. This ti...

I’m getting the feeling Stephen Harper just doesn’t trust us. On two critical issues - the war in Afghanistan and climate change – Harper is...

It didn’t take Western Forest Products long to cash in on the big gift the government handed the company earlier this year. It wasn’t really...

Jody Paterson takes the first look at a big change in social services in B.C. All programs to help people with disabilities find jobs and ...

The big fight between Montana and B.C. over mining in the Flathead Valley is heating up again. And this time, since coalbed methane is invo...

If Canadians are entitled to straight talk from their government on any issue, it's the war in Afghanistan. Instead, it feels like we ar...

I can't remember a weirder, dumber and potentially more sinister political controversy than the great debate over veiled voting. To read...

All across B.C., parents sent their children off to school in the last few days, hoping things would go well, worrying about what might go w...

Nuclear power debate about to heat up The big push to mine Alberta's tarsands has put nuclear power back on the political agenda in B.C....

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...