Brian Kieran

Enbridge now Clark’s coming-out party

Carbon boondoggle robs poor to fuel rich

Government spin is usually merely tedious

Enbridge now Clark’s coming-out party
Enbridge now Clark’s coming-out party

Liberals scurry to abandon sinking ship

When a politician tells you it’s time to get out of government, go home and spend more time with the family...

Enbridge now Clark’s coming-out party
Enbridge now Clark’s coming-out party

Enbridge now Clark’s coming-out party

Two of Victoria’s cherished grumpy old men of politics have come out of retirement this week...

Enbridge now Clark’s coming-out party
Time for Adrian Dix’s free ride to end

Enbridge shows Clark’s weaknesses

We have grown accustomed to the government of Premier Christy Clark sitting on the fence with both ears on the ground

Time for Adrian Dix’s free ride to end
Time for Adrian Dix’s free ride to end

Time for Adrian Dix’s free ride to end

NDP leader Adrian Dix — considered by just about every political observer west of the Rockies to be the premier-in-waiting...

Time for Adrian Dix’s free ride to end
Time for Adrian Dix’s free ride to end

Liberals need to axe the carbon tax

One of the strangest things Premier Christy Clark has done during her brief flirtation with power is doggedly defend her predecessor...

Time for Adrian Dix’s free ride to end
Still (cash) crazy after all these years

Education minister cancels democracy

Education Minister George Abbott has cancelled democracy in the Cowichan Valley School District

Still (cash) crazy after all these years
Still (cash) crazy after all these years

Semantics trump reality on bonus pay

To understand the spreading outrage in B.C. over the Liberals’ revisionist “bonus” scheme for senior bureaucrats at Community Living B.C...

Still (cash) crazy after all these years
Still (cash) crazy after all these years

Still (cash) crazy after all these years

Money-swilling politicians and over-indulging boozers have one thing in common; their hangovers can be unforgiving...

Still (cash) crazy after all these years
Endless dithering is not an option

Endless dithering is not an option

How deliciously fitting that some of the best advice Premier Christy Clark has received comes from the pollster she has maligned...

Endless dithering is not an option
Endless dithering is not an option

Grey Power is sharpening its teeth

As a baby boomer with an acute sense of mortality, I tend to pay attention when our jargon-festooned provincial government celebrates

Endless dithering is not an option
Endless dithering is not an option

Liberals silence utility watchdog’s bark

Like school yard bullies, Energy Minister Rich Coleman and the Liberals relish the power they have...

Endless dithering is not an option
Brian Kieran

Province has its own bridge problems

A couple of compelling grassroots issues are percolating in the hinterland

Brian Kieran
Brian Kieran

The devolution of a discredited party

The League of Freaked Free Enterprisers — the Liberal “coalition” — has just received another scary visit

Brian Kieran
Liberal legislative log jam is shameful

Liberal legislative log jam is shameful

The Liberals have had eight months to draft legislation to rescind the HST and facilitate the return to the PST/GST...

Liberal legislative log jam is shameful
Liberal legislative log jam is shameful

Blithering idiots are sharpening pitchforks

BC Hydro has apparently concluded the easiest way to install 1.85 million Smart Meters is to treat us all like blithering idiots

Liberal legislative log jam is shameful
Liberal legislative log jam is shameful

Diva of Denial sniffing too much pixie dust

Even though the socialists are pounding at the gate, the Liberals’ Diva of Denial seems content to play word games

Liberal legislative log jam is shameful
Liberals aren’t even bailing sinking ship

Campbell legacy keeps on giving . . . pain

Basking in the soft glow of my community newspaper “gold” award for column writing

Liberals aren’t even bailing sinking ship
Liberals aren’t even bailing sinking ship

Liberals aren’t even bailing sinking ship

With their voter base crumbling and election fast approaching, one might expect the Liberals to be governing with a sense of urgency

Liberals aren’t even bailing sinking ship
Liberals aren’t even bailing sinking ship

Clark knows for whom the bell tolls

Only a true April fool can look back on this week and still believe Premier Christy Clark’s promise

Liberals aren’t even bailing sinking ship