Paying attention

So is poor Ben Stewart being kept in the dark by others in government, or is he keeping the public in the dark. Stewart is the minister for ...

From Copenhagen to Haida Gwaii, climate change is in the news and bringing big economic shifts. The B.C. government has just signed "re...

It would be pretty easy to take over a mid-sized town in B.C. Not in an uprising. Just by writing cheques. Municipal election campaigns are,...

The new release from Housing Minister Rich Coleman was headlined "Innovative $32M affordable housing announced for Victoria." Inno...

Tom Flanagan, the Calgary professor who has been mentor and campaign manager to Stephen Harper, has just shed some light on why people don...

Municipal election finance reform shouldn't be a big deal. B.C. has the most lax campaign finance rules for municipal elections in Canad...

Police spying on citizens should creep you out. Not surveillance done as part of ongoing investigations or court-ordered searches or wiretap...

The announcement today that China has granted Canada approved destination status is a big deal for B.C. Without approved destination status...

The Times Colonist continues to lead on the serious privacy breach that saw confidential information on 1,400 people discovered in an employ...

The annual report card on child poverty was released last week. For the sixth straight year, B.C. had the highest proportion of poor childre...

The Times Colonist runs a Sunday column called Press Pass , compiled mainly by the newspaper's press gallery reporters- currently Lindsa...

Poor Ben Stewart. Up until the last days of the legislative session, most people didn’t even know he was in cabinet. Now he’s a symbol of bu...

So, when Citizens' Services Minister Ben Stewart learned — seven months late — that a government employee already being investigated for...

The federal Conservatives have crossed into a shameful place. Career diplomat Richard Colvin came forward, at personal cost, to give evidenc...

It's tough to keep up with all the action on the salmon farm issue, but the proposed class-action suit by the Kwicksutaineuk/Ah-Kwa-Mish...

A proposed pipeline to get oil from the tar sands to Kitimat and then into ships that would sail off to China has sparked a new debate about...

I'll write about this in the next day or two, but, for now, I recommend Norman Spector's brief, useful comments here .

This is a story about a proposed airline passenger’s bill of rights. It suggests, most of all, that those at the top of government aren’t se...

No, that's not my political commentary. I do think he's a good MLA who works hard and wants to do a good job. But over at barrypenne...

I certainly think Liberal MLA Norm Letnick is right about the risks of the government's ill-advised bill that would let police use force...