Paying attention

Bill Tieleman continues to serve the public well by following and reporting on the B.C. Rail corruption case's slow progress through the...

Ah, the legislature is a wondrous and often appalling place. MLAs have been back four days, in a special sitting to change the balanced law ...

It's a tradition that news media send reporters and camera operators out on the road with the leaders' buses during election campaig...

The province's capital hit the media big time on the weekend. A pro wrestler and pop culture figure named Chris Jericho got in a tussle ...

Eight months ago, the government said twinning the Port Mann bridge would cost about $1.6 billion, with not a penny from provincial taxpayer...

Energy Minister Blair Lekstrom wrote the Times Colonist to argue there is no boom in run-of-river power applications in the province. The le...

The plan for NATO troops to start attacking opium producers in Afghanistan seems a pointless step into a nasty mess. The theory that drug ...

Heave a sigh of relief that Gordon Campbell has decided deficits aren't the ultimate horror after all. Campbell has been an anti-deficit...

When only people with money can access the legal system, what are the rest of Canadians to do when their rights are violated? What's to ...

You can't blame Colin Hansen for getting cranky about Olympic security costs. But you also shouldn't forget this mess is partly the ...

Sean Holman over at publiceyeonline.com has an alarming look at serious concerns about the government's push to allow — and encourage ...

OK, a lot to has to happen. But even the potential election of an independent MLA, as Vaughn Palmer writes about here would be welcome. Pa...

The world has changed. Stephen Harper is acting like a Liberal, leaping into budget deficits and tossing cash around to win votes. Even Gord...

I'll do a column on the topic, but the Times Colonist has a good editorial on a Forest Practices Board report on the number of streams...

I have a soft spot for Stan Hagen. When he died this week, in a coffee shop a few steps from the legislature, something passed with him. Hag...

The best all-round Canadian blog, I'd say, has a great post on a street response to Barack Obama's win. The combination of joy and...

I'll post something later, but wanted to point to this fine column as a reminder that there is much more to our politicians than the c...

The tone is a little whiney, but an east coast newspaper manager makes points that should be considered about the future of news, and speci...

It's a disheartening contrast. Take any moment of debate from the weekend legislative session on the Olympic athletes' village and c...

Last week, Premier Gordon Campbell told the truck loggers the province would move to create a "forest reserve" to make sure timber...