Paying attention

The ministry of children and families is a competency test for government. The Liberals, like the NDP before them, are failing. They bun...

We are, once again, on the brink of conflict with the Danes, this time over shrimp . It does seem a little odd that a country that destroyed...

A Vancouver Province news story last month indirectly raised one of those health care issues no one wants to talk about. Cutbacks would ...

Good Michael Smyth column in The Province on what's happening to some of the Games tickets purchased with public money - specifically by...

This was already going to be a tough year for schools in B.C. School districts have been closing classrooms and cutting costs for years now...

You knew it was coming.... Progressive laws in Vancouver make next month's Winter games the Pot Olympics BY NATHANIEL VINTON DAILY NEWS ...

The first reviews into a major privacy breach last year paint a picture of government bumbling that's so bizarre it's literally had...

The writing is truly atrocious, but the municipal election task force has a consultation website up and anyone who cares about the politi...

"A new study out of Simon Fraser University concludes that people who buy sex are no more prone to violence than anyone else. Fewer tha...

Until now, I've figured that once the Olympics started British Columbians would probably get caught up in the whole experience. All ...

The government's lame response to domestic violence this week offered two lessons. First, despite all the rhetoric about considering...

The great FSA test battle is on again as the B.C. Teachers' Federation continues its campaign to kill the school tests. That would b...

It isn't often that a landlord can quietly order up a 30 per cent rent increase for more than 2,000 people without anybody making a publ...

I might be overly sensitive, but while the $500,000 provincial contribution is useful, I'm not sure the Haitian earthquake is really a...

I doubt that growing old has ever been much fun.  But the latest report on seniors’ care in B.C. — and the government’s reaction to it — sh...

Stephen Harper has been widely thrashed for shutting down Parliament. Here's why you should be mad too. Prorogation, it's called...

I wrote recently about carbon credits from forests. I didn't mean to suggest it was a scam, just complex. In any case, this e-mail in re...

 Many of us are going to end up needing care. Sure, some people will be lucky and live long, independent lives before dropping dead qu...

Based on Solicitor General Kash Heed's response, don't expect any real action as a result of the inquest into a murder-suicide tha...

If you want to understand how tricky - and important - climate change agreements are, take a look at forests. At meetings like the Copenha...