Paying attention

It’s amazing how simple the problems of Honduras seem to some people a few thousand kilometres away. A handful of slogans, some recycled ...

It appears Juan Orlando Hernandez has won the Honduran presidential election for his National Party.  Libre is challenging the results an...

Juan Orlando Hernandez (centre, white shirt) leads supporters in election night prayer It’s never a great thing when two candidates cl...

The collapse of Victoria-based League Assets, unfolding in grim fashion in B.C. Supreme Court, isn’t getting nearly enough media attention....

President Porfirio Lobo hands out the Bonos... and helps his party's election campaign Instead of all those complicated, multi-year...

The B.C. government’s idea of putting VLTs on the ferries so people would lose money - on top of the soaring fares - looked at first like a...

Ten days left until the Honduran national elections, and I’m thinking about inequality. It’s stunning in Honduras. There are the obvious ...

I’ve resisted adding to the flood of words about Rob Ford. But no more. Here are six thoughts. First, this is sad. Ford, as a human being...

Governments of a certain stripe are always complaining about red tape, those darn regulations that stop people and businesses from gettin...

It’s tough to pick the biggest problem for Postmedia, Canada’s largest newspaper company. And it’s just as hard to figure out where the cor...

Santos Pineda: 'No one is to blame, it's what God wanted' I had a blog post mostly done about the Bonos 10,000 progam, a Ho...

Throne speech wordcloud Stephen Harper’s throne speech was an amazing 7,240 words long, a modern record and three times as long as the ...

Yahoo reports the Harper government is moving forward with plans to give U.S. FBI and DEA agents the right to operate in Canada. The new...