Paying attention

My first budget lockup was in March 1998, when the NDP government forecast a $95-million deficit. Why didn't you cut a little more and d...

I don't think the "mainstream media filter" is quite the evil that Sarah Palin and lots of other people make it out to be. Fil...

From inside the budget lockup, six things you should know about the Liberals' latest effort. First, the February budget has been reveale...

After a fair stretch watching politics up close, I remain baffled at what happens to people once elected. Consider, for starters, Stephen Ha...

The Whistler Pique had an interesting open letter suggesting massive changes in addictions services. It appears the health authorities - or...

Why, after Vancouver had been working for at least 18 months on plans to have waste trucked to the U.S. for disposal, did the provincial gov...

Wonder where those quotes from Premier Gordon Campbell you see on the news or read in the paper come from? Often, from what press gallery ty...

If the Throne Speech had been any gloomier, Lt.-Gov. Stephen Point would have had to wear sackcloth and ashes to read it. "The worst re...

Even as the last naive man in political journalism, I can't shed the idea that big donors get special treatment from parties. Politics r...

So, when a legitimate science/slash medical journal publishes an article written by an expert researcher touting, indirectly, the benefits o...

The news that the government will expand online gambling so people can lose $10,000 a week will hardly help the Liberals fight charges of du...

The government's binge of self-destructive, autocratic acts - health care cuts, the HST, killing Tourism B.C., axing gaming grants - mig...

This release from the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, is significant for salmon farms, I think. Some First Nations support the industry and acc...

Gordon Campbell should be celebrating one broken promise. If he had delivered on his New Era pledge to bring effective recall legislation to...

This is truly cruddy behaviour on the part of the government. As Jeff Nagel reports here (and in Black Press papers across the province), t...

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...