It can hardly come as a surprise to anyone that governments – like corporations – employ spin to portray their actions in the best possible light (and to cast their opponents in the worst possible light). Nor is it news that many corporations – and the PR companies they employ – operate a revolving door for helpful politicians....

Charles Lammam and Milagros Palacios, The Fraser Institute Unless analyzing tax policy is part of your day job, you likely avoid thinking about what ultimately can be a polarizing topic. But with the deadline for filing our income tax returns around the corner, we’re all forced to at least temporarily think about taxes. The deadline […]

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...