We live in an age when the stethoscope, one of modern medicine's oldest tools, and the microchip, the device powering the digital revolution, are now linked. It presents the most exciting healthcare breakthrough we have today.

Call it the age of Medical Meta Data. It's the focus of a cutting-edge...

When he flew into the Arctic a few years ago for one of his manly photo-ops, this time with a polar bear his image-makers had tranquilized on the ice, Vladimir Putin looked at the unconscious beast and declared: "He's the real master of the Arctic."

We were all...

The sad news is now out. Jim Green, a veritable force of nature on Vancouver's civic scene for decades, is battling cancer. And it's spreading.

If you know Mr. Green, you also know it's not smart to ever count out the man with the black fedora, his sartorial...

Out of the frying pan and into the oil -- Alberta oil, that is.

That's where former B.C. premier Gordon Campbell found himself in one of his first official public appearances as Canada's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

Attending The Energy Roundtable's gathering of Canadian and European...

It should come as no surprise the United States is holding back $800 million of aid to Pakistan. We've been down this road before. And it's good we're on that road again.

I was in Pakistan days after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center as a...

"Dude, what is up with your fans?!?"

That was from a friend in Boston, the first email in my inbox after I go back home from the Vancouver Stanley Cup riot.

Here was the second email, from another friend a few thousand kilometers away, watching Lotusland burn on live on...

Vancouver is a city that likes to brand itself as Canada's "Pacific Gateway," a global portal to the world. Like everyone else, we want our fair share of Asia's game-changing, economic boom.

Yet when Asia shows interest, Vancouverites have a history of responding with what you might call globaphobia. Sure,...