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 party can sign-on to, because they're about good government, not party ideology.

VICTORIA - A veteran accountant has been appointed British Columbia's new acting auditor general.An all-party committee of the B-C legislature named R...

VICTORIA - A delayed, discredited, but highly-anticipated environmental audit of the British Columbia government's carbon-cutting program by auditor g...

VICTORIA - A possible breach of Parliament prompted the Speaker of the British Columbia legislature to put a highly-anticipated report from the audito...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's air ambulance provider seems to have its head in the clouds when it comes to tracking its own performance and looking fo...

B.C.'s outgoing auditor general says the province's financial accounts are slowly being cleaned up, but there's still much work to be done. ...

VICTORIA - B.C.'s auditor general says the mess in the financial accounts of the provincial legislature is slowly being cleaned up, but there's still ...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. government's decision to outsource administration of the Medical Services Plan and PharmaCare to a U.S.-based company has failed ...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government's record on protecting the province's rich biodiversity is "troubling," the B.C. auditor general said Thur...

B.C.'s auditor general is quitting his post with a parting shot that some people in government don't understand accountability or transparency. Joh...

VICTORIA - The growing tensions between British Columbia's take-no-prisoners Auditor General John Doyle and members of the Liberal government and offi...

VANCOUVER — Taxpayers in British Columbia may never fully learn why the government paid $6 million in legal fees for two former ministerial aides no...

VICTORIA - Auditor General John Doyle says his independence is under attack by a legislative committee struck to review his appointment and he's consi...

VICTORIA - More than one million police files that include deeply personal witness statements and some of British Columbia's most sensitive government...

VICTORIA - A B.C. legislative committee has voted to offer John Doyle a two-year extension as auditor general.The move is a reversal of an earlier dec...

VANCOUVER - The NDP says B.C.'s auditor general will examine the half billion-dollar cost of renovating B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver, work that inc...

More than a week after criticism over the non-renewal of the outspoken B.C. auditor general, the premier announced that legislation will be introduced...

B.C. taxpayers should be grateful to John Doyle for his persistent, hard-nosed work over the past six years. And perhaps six years is too short of a term, but renewal should not be an option. Now it's time for another watchdog to come in and give issues fresh eyes and a fresh voice, just as Doyle built on the work of previous auditors general.

VICTORIA - Premier Christy Clark is backing a government committee's decision not to renew the six-year contract of Auditor General John Doyle.Clark's...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia auditor general John Doyle — whose investigations into payments related to the BC Rail corruption trial and other alleg...

The speaker of the B.C. Legislature admits a secret decision to provide severance to all MLAs who lose their seats because of recall petitions was pro...