Letters

Stunning news from the legislature - the management committee of politicians that pretends to run the joint has issued a public notice about a meeting. That's the equivalent of an old-style Kremlin commissariat holding a public hearing.

The B.C. Liberals finally took a qualified stance on oil pipelines Monday, but it only highlights the secretive reticence that has prevailed to date.

British Columbia Liberals have prided themselves for the past while about how judicious they have been in not leaping to conclusions about the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project.

There's a big economic crunch coming for northern Interior forest communities, and a small group of B.C. politicians has been tasked with figuring out how to ease the pain, or spread it around.

he Liberal government has badly lost its way - and sight of the public interest - on B.C. Hydro. T The once embraced.

Finance Minister Kevin Falcon sure sounds easy-going. The union representing most of the civil service just voted 82 per cent to strike, you say? "Entirely appropriate," was his serene response Tuesday.

What is Premier Christy Clark's government all about? People make their judgments based on their personal impressions of the woman or on the policy announcements she makes.

Energy Minister Rich Coleman owes British Columbians a clear explanation for why the government paid $30 million to compensate a company for a cancelled uranium mining claim. So far, he has refused to provide one.

Independent MLA John van Dongen on Monday poked another stick into the B.C. Rail snakepit.

The Ministry of Transportation noted in passing the other day that it has spent more than $548 million on Vancouver Island in the last decade. It was the third-to-last line of a news release announcing - wait for it - $1.