Paying attention

It's early days, but Stephen Harper could be blowing the election. He's making himself look like someone who shouldn't be truste...

Stephen Harper wasted no time unveiling his first big campaign promise, a proposal to let families with children split their incomes to redu...

We're heading toward another teachers' strike in B.C., and parents and taxpayers should be angry at the government and the B.C. Teac...

OK, the federal budget wasn't a great effort - mediocre even. But there was also nothing in it that justifies the apparent decision by a...

Christy Clark’s quick action on the minimum wage is both good public policy and politically smart. Clark made increasing the minimum wage on...

New cabinet minister Harry Bloy's performance after the swearing in Tuesday was described as "fatuous" by Vaughn Palmer. And i...

Christy Clark's first cabinet seems pretty astute. That's not surprising; Clark is good at this kind of stuff. She made Kevin Falcon...

The Times Colonist has an editorial online here . One of the most interesting developments is the sacking of Lesley du Toit as deputy minist...

Christy Clark was excellent when th e Liberals were in opposition. Likable, quick, with a finely honed sense of how to score points when the...

The Liberal government is looking a little inept in the Taseko Mines affair. They certainly wouldn’t be a first choice if you needed someone...

Not me. I have no idea how the Liberal leadership vote will go. But Bernard Von Schulmann makes a good case for a Falcon-Clark final count, ...

The Liberals have been cast as big tax cutters. But not everyone comes out ahead, based on the budget. Poor individuals are the big winners;...

By the numbers, the Liberal decade is looking distinctly average. Not my numbers, but the report card from the B.C. Progress Board, establis...

The weirdest moment in this year's budget lockup came when Finance Minister Colin Hansen was asked about the 15-per-cent income tax cut ...

Chris Selley suggests the discussion of good FSA tests from Bountiful schools misses the point. Worth reading here .

Last fall, the acting chief electoral officer took action over evidence false filings might have tainted the recall process, as this story i...

The next premier probably won't be selected by cats and dogs signed up as Liberal party members. But he or she could be. The flap over a...

Vancouver's safe injection site, Insite, gets a close look in the New York Times.

This is odd. First, a cat belonging to a Christy Clark campaign worker joins the Liberal party. The worker, when contacted by Justine Hunter...

Liberal Kevin Falcon has set himself up as the business leadership candidate. Now New Democrat hopeful Adrian Dix has claimed the opposite s...