A joyride on a motorcycle landed a North Vancouver man in hot water Tuesday afternoon on the Sea to Sky highway. Squamish RCMP clocked the 24-year-old going over 140 kilometres an hour. When the man failed to stop Squamish RCMP listed the help from West Vancouver police and an RCMP traffic chopper. Police followed the rider...

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...

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 ...

So how much is too much? It's a question worth asking after B.C.'s political parties reported their 2012 fundraising hauls last week. And quite the haul it was. Between them, the B.C. Liberals and NDP brought in more than $17 million. The Liberals alone raised $10.15 million, nearly $4 million dollars more than their Ontario...

My last column gave examples of referendum procedures with less than democratic consequences and of a two-stage referendum process which conforms to the principles of the Yukon’s Municipal Act. In this column we will examine the rationale for the Act’s exclusion of two politically sensitive issues, budget and taxes, from the...

IntegrityBC is issuing a challenge to every party leader in B.C.: attend at least one all-candidates' meeting in your constituency in advance of the May 14th general election. The organization issued the challenge following Premier Christy Clark's decision not to attend any all-candidates' meetings in her riding of Vancouver-Point...

UPDATE: Since publication of this story this morning, yet another oil spill has come across the wire - a CP Rail spill from a derailment in northern Ontario - raising the total of spills this past week to SIX. It's been another appallingly bad week for proponents of pipeline safety and new oil infrastructure. If the industry's...

British Columbians will soon notice they are paying less for many of the generic prescription drugs they need for their health. Starting April 1, a new drug pricing regulation will reduce the price of generic drugs to 25 per cent of the brand name price, from the current rate of 35 per cent of the brand name price. The price...

RCMP are attempting to determine what caused a head-on collision on Highway 97 near Vernon Sunday. Names of the two victims killed in the accident will not be released until next of kin have been notified. Road conditions do not appear to be an issue when the northbound Chevrolet truck crossed the centre line and struck a...

Every year over the Easter Day long weekend, an average of four people are killed and 630 injured in 2,200 crashes throughout B.C. Whether you’re planning a weekend getaway or staying close to home this long weekend, ICBC is asking you to plan ahead and make smart choices to help keep you and your family safe. “We...