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After years of inadequate funding, our provincial heath-care system is on life support. About 700,000 British Columbians have no GP. Wait-lists for various types of surgery — particularly hip and knee operations — are unacceptably long.

The provincial government has announced a policy to cut child poverty in half in sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ by 2024, and overall poverty by a quarter. What does this policy consist of? A piece of legislation that says the government has to do it.

Proving that few things are as flexible as a politician’s principles, the NDP government has embraced a $40-billion liquefied natural gas project. Yes, when they were in opposition, the NDP railed against the LNG pipe dream of the sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Liberals.

Dairy farmers on the Island and across sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ feel as if they were thrown under the bus when the country signed on to a new free-trade deal with the U.S. and Mexico.

sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½ Hydro has introduced a crisis fund to help residential clients pay their bills when they are facing an imminent power shut-off.

The fiasco of the discipline procedures for former Victoria police chief Frank Elsner makes it clear the province has to change the rules. Mayors should not be responsible for disciplining police chiefs. A report by sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½

Music fans have long been suspicious and angry when tickets to Vancouver concerts by acts such as the Eagles and Pink sell out in minutes and scalpers seem to reap the rewards.

Just two months after he was elected, Ontario’s new premier, Doug Ford, introduced legislation cutting the number of municipal wards in Toronto to 25 from 47.

We expect politicians to have thick skins, but we shouldn’t ask them to wear armour. Sadly, too many of them are in need of protection these days — protection from social media.

A new report in a respected medical journal says that supervised-injection sites have little or no impact on their most important objectives. These include reducing overdose deaths, discouraging needle-sharing and limiting the illicit use of heroin.