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, [...]

Right after I appeared on Brian Lilley’s exceptional Sun TV show just one week before the last federal election (May of 2010), I was removing my mic and fighting with the bit of make up that ended up in my eye, when a former Sun colleague listening to the interview emailed me: “Are you sure [...]

I’ve always had a very complex, if not complicated, belief system. I was raised strictly Christian Orthodox; we, my three sisters and I, attended Sunday school and were thus in church every single Sunday. I was an altar boy for five years. Every week was one more painful exercise in providing my mother an opportunity [...]

Last week when I broke the news about Premier Clark’s two top staffers being shuffled out of their jobs, I was provided by my source three names for the replacement of Mike McDonald as Chief of Staff. One of them was Ken Boessenkool, who I told my source would be “the last guy she’d hire…she’d [...]

I really have to wonder if being Minister of Finance in this province is a curse. Kevin Falcon, for all his smarts, is someone who should know better. Yesterday, the government announced a five-year deal to repay the $1.6B federal facilitation of the HST. When I received the release from the provincial government, I immediately [...]

Imagine, if you will, that it’s the spring of 2020. Splashed across every newspaper in the province is the following story: Enbridge Pipeline accident claims millions of salmon including Chinook and Coho. Bullhead trout also threatened, with clean-up estimated in the billions: Communities of Burns Lake, Smithers and Prince Rupert devastated. Managing Directors Kim Haakstad, [...]

Over the Christmas break, I had ample time to reflect on just how God-awful the provincial government has been since its regretful adoption of Christy Clark as Premier. How else can I possibly refer to the ascension of the most unqualified premier in the history of British Columbia? It was Ms. Clark herself, that objected [...]

Late tonight, senior BC Liberal Party sources in Victoria confirm that on the chopping block are the two top staffers to Premier Clark. Both Chief of Staff Mike McDonald and Principal Secretary Dimitri Pantazopoulos are said to be likely departures from their current posts, but the timeline is uncertain and no sure word yet on [...]

The world became an even more fragile place in 2011. Good didn’t often trump evil. We endured war, pestilence, disease, murder, uprisings, Charlie Sheen and Kim Kardashian–since we’re to include all major disasters, even the insignificant ones. Well, you know what I mean… Picking the top news stories of the year wasn’t easy. There were [...]