Paying attention

OK, this is about industrial property tax battles. But it's important. Depending on what happens, homeowners could face 70-per-cent prop...

Sean Holman offers an extraordinary police perspective on the government's lack of interest in dealing with the crimes associated with c...

Terry Bazzani could star in an ad campaign about the foolishness of mandatory minimum sentences. Bazzani has no hands and short arms. He has...

Good work in the Times Colonist today on the B.C. government's abysmal record in working to prevent problem gambling and help the inevi...

The Vancouver Island Health Authority's plan to deal with provincial underfunding is a destructive mishmash of measures that hurt patien...

I've just been helping mount some of the art for this event. It's quite powerful; you've got to see it. Art and Soul is part of ...

Things have been changing in B.C. since the election, for the worse. The cuts in services and community supports and the tax breaks for busi...

The Liberal government's gambling addiction is spinning out  of control. It's still expanding betting in the province, looking for ...

Andrew MacLeod has an important story over at thetyee.ca . The news hook is that the newly hired head of the B.C. Innovation Council, claime...

The news that Jessica McDonald is quitting the top management job in the B.C. government didn’t surprise most people, since they didn’t know...

The government touts B.C. Lotteries "self-exclusion program" as an example of its response to problem gambling. People can actuall...

This week marks a bleak anniversary for the justice system. It was 18 months ago, on March 28, 2008, that an independent special prosecutor ...

The government's bumbling plan to let police drag homeless people to shelters should alarm Liberal supporters. It certainly alarmed anyo...

I've railed about the wild gambling spree launched by the Liberals, most recently here . What's most troubling is that Gordon Campbe...

I try not to write about politics. Policies are more important. And politics are baffling. Who can predict what people will do, or why they ...

I have seen some bizarre times in the legislature, but Kash Heed in question period today was the strangest, weirdest spectacle. It was like...

A Times Colonist editorial today looks at the proposed law that would require police to forcibly take at-risk homeless people to shelters in...

Quite an excellent, alarming piece from Andrew MacLeod at thetyee.ca reporting that some B.C. universities are hiring lobbyists to try and g...

Children's Minister Mary Polak's budget cuts include elimination of an intensive early intervention prorgam for autistic pre-schoole...

I can't really buy the "hard decisions" mantra the government us using to defend the cuts raining down all across public servi...