Paying attention

I took a break from working on a look at big issues in the federal election campaign and flipped through some old newspapers sitting on a ch...

It's not the fact that the Liberals and NDP are tied in a recent poll that raises doubts about a third term for Gordon Campbell after ne...

Stephen Harper seems about to force an election on Canadians on completely bogus grounds. And, at the same time, he's breaking a key pro...

Sometimes Gregor Robertson had this slightly dazed expression on his face in the legislature, like someone who has shown up at a party, real...

The federal Conservatives seem set on confirming many people’s worst fears with their sleazy, dishonest and just plain stupid direct mail pi...

There is no way in the world Gordon Campbell can justify the giant pay increases just handed to government senior managers. Not that he both...

It could have been funny, if it weren't such a serious issue. B.C.'s police complaints process is broken. Four years after the polic...

I've been doing newspapering work for quite a few years, in quite a few places. It's like building sand castles below the tide line ...

Les Leyne continues to mine the salary disclosure forms for public sector agencies and discovers that the B.C. InnovationCouncil devoted alm...

There's room for disagreement on lots of policy issues. But when government passes a cabinet order so it can abandon people with develop...

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...