Paying attention

British Columbians should be shocked by a scathing auditor general's report exposing major flaws in the environmental review process for...

Auntie Nan, the wife of my dad's brother Eric, died just short of her 96th birthday, dignity intact. That's her on the left.

Premier Christy Clark is supposedly looking at a fall election. If this were Ontario, voters would be casting much more informed ballots. An...

That's the headline on an interesting piece in the Globe today. The column by Chrystia Freeland looks at a study on the economic impact...

Anyone paying attention - especially people being paid to do just that - could have seen things were going to end badly for the 15-year-old ...

So Attorney General Barry Penner has money in his budget to pay lawyers to go to court and fight the release of documents in the B.C. Rail s...

Add another question to the mess that is the B.C. Rail scandal. Why did the provincial government, in handing over $6 million to pay Dave Ba...

Google censorship isn't just in China. The company refuses to allow a group seeking rights for sex workers to advertise, while it sells ...

Jody Paterson reports here that top managers at CLBC have seen compensation jump more than 55 per cent over four years while services to de...

It's bizarre that the authorities in Vancouver claim to be surprised by the Stanley Cup riot. I was on a 9 a.m. ferry from Victoria to V...

It’s not easy to sort the HST facts from the spinning by both sides in the tax debate. Start with Finance Minister Kevin Falcon’s claim that...

It's not surprising that Finance Minister Kevin Falcon went to New York to reassure big lenders about the province's books. The last...

From a Wall Street Journal obit: "On a clear Saturday evening in early August of 2003, Maynard Hill stood on a hillside on Cape Spear, ...

The route to in-patient mental health care on Vancouver Island is through the Archie Courtnall Centre, or psychiatric emergency services. Pa...

It's proven. Support disadvantaged women during pregnancy and through the first two years of their children's lives and you produce ...

From B.C. Ferries latest financial report: "On July 1, 2010, the harmonized sales tax (HST) became effective, combining the existing 7%...

A Times Colonist editorial thought it "baffling" that the government has repeatedly refused to set out a plan to reduce poverty. A...

From today's Times Colonist, a photo of the HMCS Corner Brook, one of the four used British submarines Canada bought in 1998. And the Co...

From a good Times Colonist editorial on the appointment of Craig James as clerk of the legislature. "Our political system includes meas...

Do we really need MLAs? They're nice enough people. But as the legislative session ended Thursday after just 24 sitting days, I wondered...