Journalism, when practiced with principles, is one of the finest crafts. There is no other vocation which affords one the opportunity to provide the public their inherent right to know–what in these days, perversely, has become a gift. Along the way, you earn your right to tell a story and your reputation builds. Or, you [...]

Amid the celebrations, typically Canadian, of the slap on the wrist the Shafia family murderers received yesterday, no one, as yet, has addressed the elephant in the room. How could this have happened in Canada? Oh, we’ve seen crimes of this kind before. A rabid Sikh renegade killing his wife and pretending through crocodile tears [...]

Welcome to ‘Black Friday’. No, the market hasn’t crashed–yet… There is no update to the ‘Batman’ series. No national mourning. Giorgio Armani isn’t switching from earth tones. The day of the euro-trash suit isn’t about to return. Instead, the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation, in the always missing wisdom of their perpetual fight with any non-NDP [...]

What a travesty the mill fire has been on the tight-knit community of Burns Lake. Many of the native aboriginal people of the area were employed there and will surely suffer as a result of the devastation. So what does the Premier do? She hikes her high heels up there and stands for some shameless [...]

There was a tremendous methodology–and intelligence  to Muhammad Ali’s ‘Rope-a-Dope’. If you let your opponents fire their best punches early, and you can sustain the hits, then knocking them out becomes routine. Even top contenders lost badly. Amazingly, Smokin’ Joe Frazier (a far more devastating puncher than Ali–but not better boxer) fell pray to this [...]

Imagine, if you will, a Massachusetts politician so dizzily wealthy that the common folk can’t relate to him. How does a quarter of a billion dollars grab you? Someone who has served his country by committing to the support of charity work like no other; someone who has redefined political leadership in his state; someone [...]

John Adams, one of the fathers of American confederation, once remarked about a fellow progenitor, Thomas Paine, that “…without the pen of the author of ‘Common Sense,’ the sword of Washington would have been raised in vain.” Mr. Paine, who emigrated from England in 1774 to fight for a revolution which few truly understood, wrote [...]

Let me tell you about a guy named Merv Adey. He’s one of my long-time and most loyal readers. He leans left, I don’t. We’ll agree on some things. but not all–far from it. His background is completely different from mine. In point of fact, we don’t have a whole lot in common. But his [...]

Over the last almost year, since Christy Clark’s operatives stole PIN numbers to make her Premier, her personal numbers and those of her party have plummeted. Her spin doctors can lie to the public all they want; the message is clear: The Christy Clark Experiment is not working. Far from it, it’s threatening to take [...]

Well, now that didn’t take long, did it? Not 48 hrs after the Premier of BC’s office invited the Prime Minster to an ambush photo op at the hockey game of Ms. Clark’s son, she’s turned on him. No, you say? Read on. At the final press conference today for the Premiers’ summit on healthcare, [...]