Paying attention

Newspaper pleads not guilty RED DEER, Alta. (CP) — The Red Deer Advocate has pleaded not guilty to incitement to commit a criminal offen...

Here are six things you need to know about the race to replace Christy Clark, based on the rules the BC Liberal Party released Tuesday. ...

The Liberals should be getting nervous about the long delay in releasing the Public Accounts and the Auditor General's review of governm...

Last week's quarterly report from Postmedia was predictably grim. Canada's largest newspaper company reported revenues had fallen ...

“I did ask a lot of questions at the time. The assurances that we all received was that these were absolutely justified and the right thing ...

Vancouver is making its mark as a major export centre in at least one area — international drug trafficking. ‘Drug Portal to the Pacifi...

There is no wall tall enough. Even if you can leave aside the racism and the attempt to exploit and worsen fears and prejudices, Donald ...

My piece from The Tyee Canada is supposed to have tough gun laws. So how did a struggling Courtenay man with affiliations to organized ...

I confess to despair watching the U.S. election results last night. I turned off the television before 9:30 p.m., knowing Donald Trump would...

Have we met? You look familiar The New Yorker ran a fascinating story about “super-recognizers,” focusing on a small Scotland Yard tea...

I wrote about information inequality for The Tyee this week, looking at what's happening as traditional news media fade to black and new...

"Why are Peru, Colombia Coca Numbers Going in Opposite Directions?" That was the headline on a recent Insight Crime report . ...

I wrote about the Island Corridor Foundation and the E&N rail line for The Tyee. You can read the piece here .

Our house has a room for a servant. Well, not a room really. More like a cell. Nine feet long, less than six feet wide. There’s a single ...

I've begun to treat my bus ride to work as a sign of how the day is going to go. If I have an OK seat, not too crunched, and arrive n...

I've been thinking about my sense of travel risks since last week's boat disaster. Pangas - heavy fibreglass open boats, generally ...

The Guelph Mercury was selling about 9,000 papers in a metro area of 155,000 people. It closed. The Nanaimo Daily News was selling about 5,...

Vancouver-Mt. Pleasant, when Ralph Sultan lived there Odd. That's the only way I can describe MLA Ralph Sultan's letter on The ...

From my piece in The Tyee today. Randall Hopley, the Sparwood bogeyman, was back in the news last week. Hopley is the scrawny loner...

If you’re in a window seat, you probably see the giant yellow trees of life before you land in Managua. They’re hard to miss. About 2...