Paying attention

Governing must be harder than it looks from the outside. Back in 1996, then opposition leader Gordon Campbell said the New Democrat's 18...

Property taxes are too high, complains Catalyst Paper Corp. (Like a lot of big industrial taxpayers in communities across B.C.) Can't pa...

Leaving aside the personal vested interest, I'd argue the future of newspapers, journalism and community are all closely linked. The ind...

The good news is that fewer B.C. kids were living in poverty in 2007. The bad news is that the “Best Place on Earth” has the highest child p...

Gordon Campbell has discovered that the province's low welfare rates are hurting people and communities. A bit late, in terms of the pov...

It’s good news that Wally Oppal was defeated in Delta South, at least barring a new result from a judicial recount. That sounds harsh, I su...

It is alarming to think about North Korea armed with nuclear weapons. Or Pakistan or Israel or Russia. But I read The Atomic Bazaar on the w...

Wally Oppal is an affable person, with a good pre-politics reputation. But he's been an ineffectual minister, often appearing poorly inf...

Dave Obee of the Times Colonist says that unless there is an immediate change of direction in the Liberal government, the province is facing...

I wasn't going to write about Brian Mulroney. But the TV coverage of his testimony at the Oliphant inquiry was weirdly compelling. Mulro...

Bob Ritchie is a frequent e-mail correspondent and always interesting. He shared this thought. "Paul, it is a taboo for sports stars in...

Some public sector workers are going to be taking one day a week off this summer to help the government cut spending. And the change is the ...

If the Green party hadn't been so boneheaded four years ago, it might have several MLAs waiting to be sworn in today. The party's fa...

Over at my favorite blog, the Gazeteer posted last night on the impact of non-traditional media in this election. Would the gap between the...

There was some pundit sniffing at the credibility of an Angus Reid Strategies poll showing a narrower gap between the Liberals and the NDP, ...

After four weeks of official campaigning - and months of unofficial efforts - we're back where we started. As I write this, with ballots...

Sean Holman at publiceyeonline.com does a superb job of covering politics and government. And he has decided that STV is a needed change. Re...

I spent almost 10 years in the press gallery, watching B.C. politics from a front-row seat. That's largely why I'm so convinced that...

BC Ministry responsible for FOI claims they have no record of how many employees work in FOI Vancouver – - The ministry responsible for the...

The wise Norman Ruff says it takes several days to declare a winner in a leaders' debate. For starters, not that many people are actuall...