Paying attention

Bill Tieleman, who has done a fine job covering the Basi-Virk BC Rail corruption trial, writes on the results of an FOI request for the repo...

Sea lice are quite creepy. They look like little tadpoles - maybe one-quarter of an inch long. And they attach themselves to salmon and othe...

I want an inquiry into the Mulroney-Schreiber scandal. It will cost a lot, say $75 million, and no one will likely be found guilty of anythi...

The always interesting PacificGazette takes a look at the government's effort to keep secret documents the lawyers in the Basi-Virk tria...

Score another one for democracy and Vaughn Palmer. The Liberals made a big blunder earlier this month, practically and politically. Governme...

Robert Pickton had it right. If you're going to kill somebody, pick someone whose death won't much matter, at least to the people wh...

Norman Spector offers an inside and insightful look at the lessons we should learn from the Schreiber-Mulroney affair (and from the Basi-Vir...

I take a look at the latest twists and turns, glance at why it's gone so wrong and remind readers what;s going on in a Times Colonist co...

Some not entirely random notes on the legislature session just ended. Yes, the legislature was sitting. The MLAs have been back here for fou...

I can't figure out why the Liberals are bungling the important work of protecting children and helping families. They made a mess of the...

The government expected a celebration last week. The second B.C. treaty process success, an agreement with the Maa-nulth of Vancouver Island...

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...