Paying attention

Stephen Harper has to go. That's the biggest message I'd take from the one-week political crisis that was eased Thursday when Gov. G...

In the post below I write about the responsibility of Conservative MPs to take control of the party away from Stephen Harper. Liberals, MPs ...

Conservative MPs face the biggest test between now and the end of January. Go along and keep repeating the talking points supplied by the pr...

Blame Stephen Harper for the mess in Ottawa. Faced with a minority government and an economic crisis, his first acts acknowledged neither. W...

Stephen Harper has managed, through incompetence, arrogance and hopeless judgment, to create a crisis for the country and his party. Hard to...

So what does the big financial crisis mean for the B.C. government - tax increases, spending cuts, deficits? None of the above, at least for...

Is there a link between political donations and the Liberals' decision to break their promise to halt gambling expansion in the province...

Rich Coleman is musing about finding a way to force homeless people into shelters when the weather makes life on the street dangerous. The ...

I've been reading about Vera Zasulich, who invented terrorism as we know it when she shot the governor of St. Petersburg in 1878. And I...

The Globe and Mail reported the government has reached some sort of secret compensation deal over hundreds of leaky schools. But the governm...

Municipal politics are their own world. But last weekend's election results raise interesting issues for both parties with six months le...

I ran into a Victoria council candidate as we launched our kayaks Saturday morning. He was going out fishing. Which is healthy, but perhaps ...

Angus Reid Strategies had the NDP five points ahead (see the post below); Ipsos Reid finds the Liberals up by nine with this poll. Which wi...

Fixed election dates make for a better democracy. But some Liberals must be wishing Premier Gordon Campbell had been more interested in poli...

The “tough-punishment” crowd came to mind when I heard the Victoria police had caught three people smoking crack cocaine this week. They we...

Last month, Patrick Kinsella - among the most influential of Campbell backers and co-chair of the last two Liberal campaigns, drew attention...

Children's Minister Tom Christensen says it was a mistake. Yes, his ministry violated freedom of information law and tried to hide repo...

Don Cayo is one of the people I point to when blogland gets too critical of the snappily named MSM. He suggests in this column that the pro...

I was 15 when the photo appeared, in Life magazine, I think. Barack Obama was six. It was a black and white shot of a Mississippi sheriff na...

How bad is it going to get in British Columbia? And who is going to take the brunt of the beating as the economy reels from the collapse of ...