Paying attention

So how about these four lessons from 2008? Things can change dramatically and rapidly. People who are supposed to be smart and knowledgeable...

It would be a great loss to toss out the Foundation Skills Assessment tests and the chance for more effective public education. The B.C. Tea...

There have been many times, standing in a press conference or even doing an interview, when I've wanted to take off my shoes and peg the...

The politics of coalbed methane in B.C. are a lot more complicated even than getting the stuff out of the ground. Just look at the governmen...

Gretzy was great, Rocket Richard ferocious and I've always had a great fondness for Frank Mahovlich. But no one I've seen came close...

The B.C. Liberals don't accept donations from gambling companies, Gordon Campbell said last week. You decide if the premier is being str...

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...