Paying attention

MLAs Norm Letnick and Rob Fleming got an awful lot of extra money for almost no work last year. Letnick, a Liberal from Kelowna-Lake Country...

An editorial today in the Times Colonist: The unseemly premiers Convention organizers often seek sponsors willing to pay to curry favour wit...

The HST as cash cow, the incredible shrinking deficit and three other interesting things from the Public Accounts , the final report on the ...

Sean Holman filed an FOI to find out who was working in the government's HST sales office and managing the multimillion ad campaign to c...

So how’s Christy Clark doing, after four months as premier? That’s a big question for the Liberals. If Clark is doing well, they can afford ...

The Times Colonist looked at the shooting death of a five-year-old boy on an Alberta reserve today. The statistical portrait of reserve life...

Governments love charities as props whenever they want to expand gambling. They use them to legitimize what is, overall, a destructive indus...

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, ...