Paying attention

If you're out and about in Victoria, consider stopping in at 2% Jazz Coffee, where I have a bunch of pictures on the wall. Last year I s...

Times Colonist reporter Lindsay Kines, who has been reporting on the missing women case long before police and politicians were even acknowl...

The Union of B.C. Municipalities has evolved into the big political event of the year. And the just-concluded gathering in Whistler was suit...

The Ontario Superior Court has ruled that laws around the sex trade targeting soliciting, bawdy houses and living off the avails are unconst...

The appointment of Wally Oppal to head the Pickton inquiry demonstrates this government's combination of arrogance and ineptitude. Attor...

I headed into the local hospital for a quick day treatment in a clinic last week. Two doctors were waiting to see a cluster of us. But the n...

Former Liberal MLA Sindi Hawkins died today after a long battle with cancer, which she turned into an opportunity to raise awareness and mon...

Interesting post (as is often the case) at pacificgazette.blogspot.com on the timing of the decision to sell B.C. Rail and, more specificall...

Recall campaigns are ugly. The goal is to convince voters to fire an MLA. So campaigners talk about the rotten, incompetent person represent...

It was probably just a sideshow in terms of the B.C. Rail trial. But Brian Kenning's time in the witness box offered an interesting look...

The Times Colonist on Elections B.C. "It's troubling -- and wrong -- that Elections B.C. is being restructured when the party in po...

The twists and turns on the HST roller coaster are getting dizzying. Premier Gordon Campbell delivered the latest sudden change of direction...

And I think the column I wrote on the first anniversary stands up. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2002 A licence to extend the state's power B...

It actually appears the Liberals are seriously considering sending the anti-HST initiative to a provincewide vote next year. And that seems ...

The government's major project inventory report is a useful look at big capital projects being built or considered. The news releases a...

It would be useful if the HST debacle convinced all parties to question giving their leaders so much power. Some Liberals are now publicly s...

This report is interesting. Peckford is six years older than Gordon Campbell. He won two elections as Newfoundland premier, casting himself...

No matter how much Finance Minister Colin Hansen and Premier Gordon Campbell protest, few British Columbians will believe their claims the h...

Check the websites for the major media this afternoon - the Times Colonist, Sun, Province, Globe and Mail, CBC - and you'll find coverag...

The provincial auditor general and the government are in a tussle, again, over the way more than $440 million in annual subsidies to the oil...