Opinion

It’s a little tough to trust the financial system amid all the news about mass theft of credit card numbers and websites leaking personal information.

One revelation after another of politicians living large at public expense might leave the impression that abuses are increasing, but they are nothing new.

Jim Flaherty was an exceptional minister of finance, not only because he oversaw management of the Canadian economy during a deep recession domestically and a financial crisis globally, or because he delivered 10 federal budgets, but, because, in tha

I am one of an estimated 3.15 million hard-of-hearing Canadians. This doesn’t mean I don’t hear people. Every day, I hear conversations and arguments and lectures and cussing all around me.

It’s things like the kiss-off Michael Graydon got when he left the B.C. Lottery Corp. that make you wonder about the core review and the B.C. Liberals’ purported vigilance when it comes to maintaining austerity.

You’re walking on Centennial Trail along West Saanich Road when suddenly a large, tawny animal leaps out of the bushes at you. The movement triggers your brain’s most ancient emotion-and-alarm system, deep in the most primitive part of your brain.

Today’s B.C. Liberals might have taken a little inspiration during last year’s election campaign from former prime minister Kim Campbell, who bluntly stated in 1993 that “an election is no time to discuss serious issues.

I was aghast when I read that a 20-year old who was babysitting for a 5-year old could not make macaroni and cheese from boxed ingredients! Her parents felt guilty about lapses in child rearing.

John Horgan’s virtual acclamation as the new leader of B.C.’s New Democratic Party brings plenty of hope, but also concern. I worked with John in the late 1990s while Glen Clark was premier.

If you take heartburn drugs (and about a fifth of Canadians do) you might want to sit up and take notice of the recent work of a courageous member of Parliament.