Trivia time: who was the last leader of the BC NDP to lead his party to more than 45 per cent of the popular vote in a provincial election?

One would have to go back six leaders and eight elections to 1979 when Dave Barrett won 45.99 per...

It's a bit rich for the BC Liberal party to be giving lessons on political fundraising, as they tried to do over the weekend after the BC NDP sent a fundraising appeal to corporate Liberal party donors.

The Liberals might have been well-advised to leave well enough alone, if for...

The phoney campaign has finally given way to the real thing. The writ is dropped, the legislature is dissolved and politicians are out on the hustings. And as voters know well, that means big, glitzy promises. But imagine promises that wouldn't need sod-turnings or ribbon cuttings? Meaningful promises that every...

So how much is too much? It's a question worth asking after B.C.'s political parties reported their 2012 fundraising hauls last week.
And quite the haul it was. Between them, the B.C. Liberals and NDP brought in more than $17 million. The Liberals alone raised $10.15 million, nearly $4...

They're off. The start to B.C.'s official pre-campaign period for the 2013 election campaign is well underway. Day one of the pre-campaign would have been an easy miss, coming as it did on the same day a meteor crashed to earth and the Vancouver Canucks fell to the...

If the B.C. government is ever on the hunt for a new slogan perhaps "Spending Our Children's Inheritance" would be fitting.

Since 2001, British Columbians have been witness to the sale of key parts of B.C.'s infrastructure, transfers of its wealth to private interests and sweetheart deals for industries that...

The B.C. government likes to boast that the province's personal income tax rates are among the lowest in the land, if not the lowest. Expect to hear it repeated a lot in TV ads over the coming weeks, when the legislature reconvenes in February and when the 2013 provincial budget...

If the term "fiscal cliff" became part of the daily lexicon over the holidays, perhaps a new term should come into vogue in B.C. before the May election. Call it the "fiscal tsunami" and it could hit B.C.'s shores sooner than most think. It's the hangover that comes from creative...

Sometimes when you want to know how prudent a political party will be with the taxpayer's dime, it doesn't hurt to consider how prudent they are when it comes to spending their own dime at party headquarters.

As a government, the B.C. Liberal party has exhibited diametrically opposing approaches to...

If voters were under the impression that it's only provincially in B.C. where corporate and union bucks talk tough, think again. Consider how much each candidate running for a mayor's chair in various Lower Mainland municipalities had to raise for their campaign in last year's local elections.

In 14 cities,...

B.C. Liberal party director Mike McDonald made an interesting point on Sunday. Not one to miss an opportunity for a partisan shot given the nature of his political post, McDonald tweeted: "Shocked at low NDP turnout in Fairview. Huge media, high profile candidates, less than 400 voted. NDP support not...

When the B.C. Court of Appeal struck down the government's not-so-subtle attempt to stifle citizens with its ill-advised "gag" law this month, it was only a partial victory.

Regrettably, the court never had the chance to consider the multitude of contradictions and loopholes that exist in the