The B.C. NDP face plant was so bad they'll be getting sympathy cards from the Toronto Maple Leafs. Almost the only consolation is they fell on the pollsters and pundits confident they'd win. So what went wrong? Click here to read the rest.

If someone in the PMO paid off a big chunk of my mortgage, how much would you trust my coverage of politics? Now, what if they did it for a legislator? It's wrong, totally wrong. And dangerous to our Constitution. Click here to read the rest.

Now the opposition are having fits over the Harper administration ...   Not really necessary to complete that sentence, is it? But I'm thinking about them being shocked and appalled at Tory MPs wondering how history is taught in Canada. Click here to read the rest.

Despite its laid-back, progressive reputation as the environmentalist 'left coast', full of hippies and unionists and aboriginal activists and public servants, British Columbia is Tory territory federally. And not Red Tory either. Just one more way the province is different, and alienated from the Canadian mainstream. Click here to read the rest.

You know what I hate about politics? OK, that could be a well with no bottom. But a bucket borrowed from the late Daniel Boorstin just helped me haul up an especially slimy lump from way down deep. Specifically, Raymond Betts and Lyz Bly’s A History of Popular Culture describes a term Boorstin coined in the 1960s, “pseudo-event,” meaning something enacted for the sole purpose of being reported. Click here to read the rest.

Oil pipelines arouse strong passions. Unfortunately in B.C. they may also be about to arouse bad policy on a major scale. Click here to read the rest.

There's a lot at stake in B.C.'s May 14 election. Not in policy terms unless the NDP have hidden Karl Marx or Ken Kesey somewhere in their platform. But in political terms, because one of British Columbia's many remarkable qualities is its tendency to create then destroy political dynasties. Click here to read the rest.

Justin Trudeau's knee-jerk "root causes" explanation of the Boston Marathon bombing, "there is no question that this happened because there is someone who feels completely excluded", certainly shows he's not ready for prime time. But the question of root causes would be interesting if the phrase were not clearly code for "it's our fault." Click here to read the rest.