In the early part of last year, when one of my friends who was working on George Abbott’s leadership campaign called to say how much he appreciated my perspectives through the campaign, I laughed. “Why are you laughing at me, Al? That’s not very nice!” he said. “Because if you and the Falcon people had [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]