Paying attention

The B.C. Utilities Commission deserves a slap upside the head for its ruling on B.C. Hydro's plans to sign deals with private power comp...

This is a third column about a three-year-old boy. He started life healthy, loved by capable parents who faced some big challenges. He was t...

A child taken away because his parents were poor This is a second column about a three-year-old boy. He started life healthy, loved by capab...

It’s fitting, in a grimly symbolic way.  Just when attention might be paid to the little boy who fared so badly in the government’s care,...

I know we're heading to a long summer weekend, but everyone should read this report from Representative for Children and Youth Mary Ell...

The unravelling of the proposed legislation setting out a new relationship with First Nations remains a fascinating mystery. In the spring, ...

The provincial government announced a review of the operations of B.C. Ferries and TransLink yesterday. If you're wondering about the ti...

Is this really democracy? The whole election process now looks like a sham. The Liberals rejected a harmonized sales tax during the campaign...

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...