Paying attention

The government’s promise of $40-a-day payments to parents if schools are closed in September is an astute tactical move. The plan, announ...

The Honduran kids are starting to pile up in detention centres along the U.S. border. Since Oct. 1, about 52,000 “unaccompanied minors” hav...

I’m sure Vince Ready is busy. But I expect he also decided against getting involved in the teachers’ strike/lockout because there is no rea...

Premier Christy Clark scores top marks for hypocrisy in explaining why British Columbians on disability benefits, and their children, shoul...

The chances of reaching a new teachers’ contract this month range from slim to none.  There can always be breakthroughs when both parties...

I don’t understand the teachers’ union decision to strike with two weeks left in the school year. Parents resent school closures at any t...

1) A record of corruption and incompetence doesn’t disqualify a party from forming government. The Ontario Liberals cost taxpayers almost $...

Not all parents are worried about school closures in the current teachers’ dispute. Christy Clark and thousands of others have opted out ...

I’ve been doing some research that led me into the Toronto Star online archives of the mid-1950s. It wasn’t any golden age of journalism....

Christy Clark needs to provide better answers about her previously undisclosed role with RCI Capital Group. In 2007, Clark signed a contr...

I’m rooting for Postmedia. But the latest quarterly results released Thursday don’t offer much hope for the future of the corporation. Si...

Postmedia will releases its latest quarterly results Thursday. Here are three numbers that will tell if the company is making any progres...

No one has to co-operate with the police when they’re investigating a possible crime. You’re free to tell the officers that you have no int...

We’ve been counting down the lasts for a while now.  The last four-hour bus trip home from San Pedro Sula a week ago. Last trip to the ...

Former Canadian Forces lieutenant-general Andrew Leslie - and federal Liberal advisor and prospective star candidate - is being attacked by...

Back in September the Honduran government started seizing the assets of Los Cachiros , an alleged drug and crime organization. The $500 mil...

The news keep getting worse for investors in Victoria-based League Assets. And the financial disaster is still not getting adequate media c...

There’s a certain over-the-top, bread and circuses aspect to tomorrow’s ceremonies for the swearing in of the new president of Honduras. ...

I’ve come up with a clever, no-cost way to reduce poverty and increase school attendance in Honduras. Get rid of school uniforms. The u...