Paying attention

It’s not really Ida Chong’s fault. She’s a cultural victim. The minister for health living and sport ran into a storm of criticism when the ...

A good editorial in the Times Colonist today on Ida Chong's big meal-expense claims, the NDP's refusal even to reveal how much its ...

I have been genuinely impressed with the way police in the capital region have handled protests at the legislature. The emphasis always seem...

There's something weird in the fact that some New Democrats are musing about a leadership change while Liberals maintain a discrete sile...

Poor Colin Hansen. Being the front man for the harmonized sales tax is a wretched job that seems to get worse every day. Now that the anti-H...

You have seen it hundreds, thousands, of times, but never taken notice. "Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the art...

How much environmental damage is justified as a trade-off for the jobs and revenue from a big new open-pit mine? The proposed Prosperity gol...

There is much encouraging in this report on an effort in Victoria to reduce the number of people with addictions and mental illness caught ...

The legal attack on the HST petition by business groups is terrible for the Liberals. In fact, when the release announcing the court action ...

Now that you're paying the harmonized sales tax, I suggested heading over here for Sacha Peter's " spin-free discussion on HST ...

Don Cayo sets out the argument here .

Why did the province's criminal justice branch decide against charges in Robert Dziekanski's death without gathering the needed fact...

This is such a bad idea I wondered at first if it was a hoax e-mail. The province's big business organizations have gone to court to arg...

The big G8/G20 summits in Ontario look like a ripoff. The three days of meetings cost Canada $1.1 billion. That's about $32 for every on...

Les Leyne reviews the special prosecutor's report on John Les and Chilliwack bureaucrat Grant Sanborn in today's column . Sanborn f...

With a few days left before the HST kicks in, it’s hard to see any way out of the muck-filled hole the Liberals have dug for themselves. No ...

Barack Obama has an interesting problem. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, heading up the U.S. surge in Afghanistan, has been called back to Washingt...

Don't be too quick to think the RCMP has really learned from the death of Robert Dziekanski. Former justice Thomas Braidwood's inqui...

It's tough to figure out what Children's Minister Mary Polak was thinking. The Representative for Children and Youth had just releas...

One of the scariest and saddest revelations in the wake of the Blair Lekstrom resignation is that Liberal MLAs were told the HST was coming ...