Paying attention

Our inability to manage health care is one of the great public policy failures of the last 25 years, at least. The same issues and the same ...

Kevin Falcon is off to a bumbling and alarming start as health minister. Falcon sat down with the Vancouver Sun's health reporter and sa...

I have no idea what to make of Gordon Campbell's proposed Recognition and Reconciliation Act. There's just not enough information. T...

It's looking liken the Liberals are ready to launch their third term as they did their first - with a full-tilt overhaul of government, ...

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...