Opinion

It may be the biggest charm offensive since the Khmer Rouge tried belatedly to endear themselves to Cambodians. That didn’t go very well, but then, again, it’s hard to make nice to the relatives of one million dead.

Forests Minister Steve Thomson and the ministry he heads have lost credibility over management of forests for grizzly bear populations across the province.

Like marriage and the tango, it takes two parties to agree to a union contract: the employer and the employee, or at least the employee’s representative.

New Democrat campaign manager Brian Topp’s fascinating post-mortem of the 2013 election loss includes an inside account of the “moment.

Reading the history of various heroes and saints who fought against injustice and oppression can be an encouraging experience.

Last February, a study by Civic Economics showed that a 10 per cent shift of spending by British Columbians, from chain stores and restaurants to locally owned alternatives, would create 31,000 jobs and put $940 million in workers’ wallets.

This week we’re to get an update from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on how much closer we are to destroying the planet we inhabit since the panel’s last assessment in 2007.

Canadians routinely hear about alleged growing divides in Canadian society. But here is one rift that often goes unmentioned: the divide between the pension benefits of public-sector employees and everyone else.

The contrast between winning and losing was never clearer than on Friday. There was the New Democratic Party (the losers).

‘They don’t need to read my mind,” I informed Nature Boy when he offered me his tinfoil helmet. “They can read everything else.