Paying attention

The "harmonized tax" plan makes me wonder if the Campbell government has lost its way. It's not the plan's substance, in f...

Gordon Campbell and Colin Hansen left a lot of questions with the announcement of a Harmonized Sales Tax that would - mostly - combine the G...

It seems bad public policy - even dumb and destructive - to cut supports that help people get off welfare and into jobs just as more people ...

The provincial government had high hopes its proposed recognition and reconciliation act would bring "seismic change" to relations...

Although professionally predisposed to have an opinion on anything, I'm uncertain on uranium mining . If global warming is a real issue,...

Slowly — so slowly — British Columbians might be moving closer to some answers in the B.C. Rail corruption case. It’s been a dismal performa...

Not in China or Iran, but in Alberta, where a Conservative MLA has decided to put his constituents ahead of his party. Party discipline is p...

"The stenographers of power will always find work. As will the trumpeters of fame. I.F. Stone wrote not to create a sensation, or to pr...

The Campbell government has decided the province’s sick and injured should carry a chunk of the recession’s burden. The health authorities -...

A useful look at the destruction of potential evidence in the B.C. Rail corruption trial is to be found here .

Come on. This can't be happening in an advanced democracy in 2009.

The Interior Health Authority chair, responsible for an organization delivering care to 720,000 British Columbians, believes two-tier care s...

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 ...