Once every four years citizens are offered a brief reprieve from the responsibility of endless decisions about matters concerning their kids, their homes, and their work; of just getting along and making ends meet. Once every four years we are inundated with propaganda telling us that all the problems associated with the...

It's a bit rich for the B.C. Liberal party to be giving lessons to the BC NDP on political fundraising, as they tried to do over the weekend after the NDP sent a fundraising appeal to corporate Liberal party donors. The Liberals might have been well-advised to leave well enough alone, if for no other reason than it might...

BC NDP leader Adrian Dix continued to offer up his election platform in Kelowna Sunday, committing to change for the better for BC’s food producers and agricultural communities. Dix said an NDP government would make an annual investment of $8 million in programs to develop local markets and promote stability for BC growers....

A male living in the 15800 block of North Bluff Road in White Rock was assaulted by two would-be robbers. The 22-year-old victim interrupted a home invasion to his residence just before noon and was hit in the head by a male with a crowbar, but was able to fend the assailant and his partner […]

People in the least well‐off areas of British Columbia are dying sooner than those in better‐off areas, according to new figures from the Health Officers Council of BC. Overall life expectancy in BC has improved, but in less affluent areas of the province life expectancy has remained much the same or even declined. In an...

Chilliwack, BC: Police are now releasing a sketch of a man possibly responsible for an attempted attack on two woman hikers on the Tea Pot Hill trail on Columbia Valley Road on February 24, 2013. Two women were running on the trail when they encountered a man. The man approached the women from behind and […]

Premier Christy Clark has issued the following statement following an explosion in Boston: “Our immediate thoughts and prayers go out to the families of those killed and injured by today’s terrible explosion near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. “While we don’t have full details, it’s clear that first responders are to be commended […]

For a while, I was wondering whether Christy Clark and her supporters realized THEY were in government, not opposition! They all spent much of the Liberals’ half-hour paid advertisement on Global TV Sunday night warning against the evils of deficits and debt: BC NEEDS a balanced budget “for our kids”; BC should NOT leave those...

Let the campaign begin. With the election writ set to be dropped Tuesday, campaigns kicked off over the weekend with both major parties, NDP and Liberals, doing their best to score some early points. The election is Tuesday, May 14. Liberal Leader Christy Clark renewed her call to debate NDP leader Adrian Dix one-on-one while […]

The day I picked up a copy of Stéphane Hessel’s Time for Outrage! at my local bookstore was the day the Royal Bank of Canada’s hiring practices made headlines. There was confusion about what RBC was being accused of. Was it outsourcing? Was it off-shoring? Was it an abuse of the temporary foreign workers’ program? Whatever ...