Paying attention

Day two of Cuso in-country training, and I recognized part of what I'm liking about the moving to Honduras experience. I'm way out o...

Well, you'd probably recognize me, but the new life part certainly applies. (And while the headline is from The Sign, I am referencing t...

I’ve been urging the same New Year’s resolution in columns for 10 years now. Which means it’s great, or I’m unimaginative. I’m living the re...

The Progress Board, set up by Gordon Campbell in 2002 to report on how the government is doing and killed by Christy Clark last year, went o...

The fracking debate — or more accurately the absence of one — is another example of B.C.’s great divide. If fracking was going on in the Low...

Those paying close attention might have noticed a new link in the upper right here, called Heading to Honduras . That’s where I’m going in m...

I have good news for Premier Christy Clark — a way to deal with Community Living B.C. underfunding that won’t require spending cuts elsewher...

The biggest issue in the federal government’s move to curb health-care spending increases isn't the new limits, although that should be ...

There’s no real theme to the column, beyond a general sense of wonder. First, burkas and citizenship. Foreign Affairs Minister Jason Kenney ...

The Occupiers have packed their tents, but the issue of increasing inequality within Canada shouldn't go away with them. The Organizatio...

The B.C. Supreme Court struck a good balance in tossing part of the province’s new drinking-driving laws. Justice Jon Sigurdson upheld the p...

I have been meaning to try and sort through the claims about funding for the Attawapiskat First Nations community. The northern community is...

Amid all the gloom - and there was buckets of it - a glimmer of good news shone through Finance Minister Kevin Falcon’s quarterly report on ...

The Clark government believes reducing the number of unnecessary regulations is important. It doesn’t feel the same way about reducing child...

Canadians have lost a lot over the years. A generation ago, most people could count on buying a home for the equivalent of about three year’...

The past week in the legislature offered good reminders of how surreal things can get in the grand old building. On Tuesday, the issue of wh...

There are many interesting aspects of the decision to delay the Keystone pipeline. The Times Colonist has a useful editorial here. One strik...

UBC president Stephen Toope didn’t come up with answers about how taxpayers ended up paying $6 million to cover the legal fees of two Libera...

Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty offered Christy Clark a big break this week, if she’s prepared to grab it. Flaherty conceded the Conse...

The Vancouver Sun had an odd letter to the editor from a former chair of Community Living BC today. (Not the current chair, as the published...