Paying attention

The province’s cautious carbon tax is starting to look insignificant as gas prices spike. But the $100 rebate cheques designed to help sell ...

The BC Rail corruption trial grows more surreal - and more remote from justice as most us understand it - with each passing month. And there...

The hysteria greeting a B.C. Human Rights Tribunal hearing on charges that Maclean's magazine incited hatred against Muslims is kind of ...

The Times Colonist had a nice editorial on the announcement that Corky Evans is retiring from provincial politics. The Arrow Lakes News off...

You can't blame Attorney General Wally Oppal for struggling with what to do about the polygamous community at Bountiful. About 1,000 peo...

Left, right, green or in-between, you should be appalled at the way the spring legislative session ended last week. In the space of 67 minut...

The ruling on the future of Vancouver's safe injection site should change the way we talk about drugs and addiction. It will certainly r...

I'll get a post up on the Insite judgment in B.C. Supreme Court judgment tonight or tomorrow morning, but I'd urge you to read it. I...

Making sure poor people don't get a vote, the Taser scam and zapping MLAs who behave badly. Sometimes, there are just too many good topi...

If you're schizophrenic, you're most likely a smoker. In fact, if you're diagnosed with any mental illness, you're twice as ...

It’s a bit much to hear Gordon Campbell claim the Liberals’ election gag law is needed to reduce the influence of big money in politics. Cam...

Two things have jumped out from the provincial inquiry into Taser use. First, the public has been misled at best, lied to at worst, about th...

The Liberals are making a mess of the forests file, politically and practically. It's painful to watch Forest Minister Rich Coleman blus...

The stats for First Nations children in B.C. are dismal. Being born native brings a much greater likelihood of struggle in almost every area...

It's rarely mistakes that get governments in trouble. It's the attempts to conceal them. The Liberals are falling into that trap, fi...

Disturbing news in the latest StatsCan report on incomes in Canada. The report, which used data from the 2006 census, found that people'...

Bravo Stephen Harper. After years of ineffectual stalling by previous federal governments, both Liberal and Conservative, the age of sexual ...

I should have written about the children's representative report on four child deaths last week, when it came out. But I am so tired of ...

It's worrying that for the second time in six months the government has made a mess of the simple task of handing out money for school p...

The federal Conservatives are heading into trouble over allegations of election spending fraud and money-laundering. It's more complex t...