Paying attention

After the auditor general's devastating report on the government's incompetence and negligence in removing vast tracts of prime Vanc...

The auditor general's report on the government's decision to remove 70,000 acres of private land from tree farm licences on southern...

Most of us haven't paid much attention to the case of Omar Khadr, the Canadian captured by U.S. Special Forces in Afghanistan in 2002. K...

Six months into the year, and the B.C. government has sold almost $1 billion worth of gas leases. That’s just short of the record total for...

Bob Ritchie is one of the interesting people I only know because I write a column. We've never met, but he's a prolific writer of le...

My column today in the Times Colonist takes a look at an online campaign for better hospital food and the effective use of the web by a La...

I filled up the Neon on the way home Monday, saving about 70 cents by avoiding the carbon tax that kicked in Canada Day. The service station...

Is hospital food crappy? Does it have to be? Bernard von Schulmann, fresh from his son's recent birth, says it is and it shouldn't b...

Mostly, everyone involved seems confused by the shuffle of services for mentally disabled adults out of the children's ministry and a ne...

It's been a rough and chaotic seven years for people with mental disabilities and their families in B.C. And once again, they have been ...

As people get a chance to look at Rich Coleman's new ministry, concern is mounting about the government's intentions for some disad...

It's always a bit weird writing about cabinet shuffles. In our system, where the premier or prime minister is king, even ministers don...

I'll post a column in the next few hours, but the Times Colonist has tomorrow's editorial online today.

After a recent column on donating the coming $100 carbon tax rebate to a good cause, a reader in Nelson e-mailed. His money is spent already...

I posted a link to a column by a family doctor on the provincial government’s plan to destroy a UBC initiative that helped control Pharmaca...

One of B.C.'s great health care successes has been its management of spending on prescription drugs. A major factor has been the Therape...

Barack Obama is not even elected president yet, and he's already picking on B.C. It didn't get much attention, but Obama served noti...

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 ...