Paying attention

Winners are always champions of the status quo.  Like Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson. He was asked whether it was fair that employers ...

Great. The lives of seniors in B.C. care homes, where they are already over-drugged and under-supported, now depend in part on the Chinese ...

Give Finance Minister Carole James full marks for a bold budget approach and the skill to sell it. The new government was in a tough s...

(Belatedly posting my recent Tyee column.) Finance Minister Carole James put a good spin on this week’s quarterly update on the provi...

I have no idea what the government will do about Site C. (I do know that anyone who claims it’s an easy choice to kill the project or go a...

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 ...