Paying attention

Interior Health Authority chair Norm Embree told the Kelowna Daily Courier this week that he sees nothing wrong with two-tier heath care. Wh...

I resent being treated like I'm stupid. Sure, I'm capable of dumb moments and bad decisions, but, mostly, I'm a responsible, com...

Interesting and worrying story in the Kelowna Daily Courier. Norm Embree, chair of the Interior Health Authority, speaks candidly about cuts...

All those community groups, social service agencies and service providers who have been getting the runaround about their provincial funding...

It seemed a reasonable request. The Representative for Children and Youth asked Premier Gordon Campbell and NDP leader Carole James to meet ...

The "seismic change" for relations between First Nations and the province, which I wrote about here seems to be hitting some bump...

First, the reports were that subsidies to allow the poorest B.C. kids to camp were at risk. Then aid for leaky condo owners. Now even the V...

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...