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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

What can be said or written about Jean Chretien’s legacy as the most unaccomplished prime minister in modern Canadian history that hasn’t already been noted? He ruled Canada for a decade simply because his opposition was divided by an oppressive, vain imp name Presto! He balanced Canada’s books because his finance minister picked the flowers [...]

If you’ve never seen a woman attired in hijab (head scarf), niqab (veil) and burka (full ceremonial dress), it’s a rather menacing, hostile sight–if not a degrading one. I’m unsure which God mandated that women cover themselves so thoroughly, so ridiculously, but whichever one it was, he’s a hypocrite, since there is nothing on this [...]

It was more than a case of tranquility lost and dignity vaporized. Far more than yet another painful example of the castrated Vancouver Police Department under current Chief Jim Chu and current Mayor Gregor Robertson–they had no presence for the first 45 minutes of the Vancouver Club mugging, it was an instructive lesson on how [...]

Yesterday I read, with much disappointment but no surprise at all, how both Ethan Baron of The Province and Ian Mulgrew of The Vancouver Sun didn’t think much of Prime Minister Harper’s principled and reasonable omnibus crime bill. Mr. Baron, who, pleasingly, at least seems to often understand the foibles of Gregor Robertson and Co. [...]

A registered charity in this country may pursue “political activities to retain, oppose, or change the law, policy, or decision of any level of government inside or outside Canada provided the activities are non-partisan, related to its charitable purposes, and limited in extent.” This immediately raises the question: Is David Suzuki capable of comprehending the [...]