Paying attention

My first reaction to the NDP's plan to push women and minority candidates into more ridings was negative. It is undemocratic. Holding se...

The decision to call a public inquiry into Robert Dziekanski's Taser death might not have come quickly enough for my young friend Spence...

Most people who watched Robert Dziekanski's life end on the floor of the Vancouver airport felt horror. But there was also anger, and a ...

Whenever someone calls John Les B.C.'s top cop, I flash to Chief Wiggum on the Simpsons. Specifically, I see Wiggum in his familiar pose...

When children are at risk of being abused or neglected, their safety - their lives - can depend on a quick, thorough investigation. The chil...

Three weeks into the fall session and you can see why Gordon Campbell only let MLAs sit for three days last fall. The Liberals expected to m...

The Liberal government's willingness to hand benefits worth hundreds of millions of dollars to forest company owners is staggering. It ...

You could make a case that the Vancouver Convention Centre expansion is a bigger scandal than the fast ferry fiasco. Both are examples of in...

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...