Paying attention

A comment on the gambling post - see below - included a link to this interesting study that looked at why the biggest buyers of lottery tic...

The nice people at B.C. Lotteries have just offered me $5 to try online gambling. "Pay for Play Promo Cash," they called it in the...

I'll deal with the issue in a column, but here's the first response from the B.C. Association of Community Living to cabinet order s...

Among the surprises in last week's release of figures on management pay in the B.C. public sector was news that the B.C. Rail CEO Kevin ...

I caught Geoff Berner up at the Vancouver Island Music Fest a couple of years ago and was impressed with his quirky, biting songs and sharp ...

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...