Even as a national suicide prevention bill passed second reading last week, Canada's public service bureaucrats are still covered by an archaic provision that stigmatizes suicide by denying disability benefits to those who have attempted it. Mental healt

Stockwell! It's been a while since I've seen your face and I was wondering how life outside of politics was treating you. So, imagine my great pleasure when I came across your column on the CBC website: "Avoid the trap of the income 'gap'." Noting the de

Mayor, council deserve no congrats Re: Council should be commended for cancelling town lawsuit; editorial, Feb 9. With all of the political savvy of Stockwell Day leaping from his jet ski in a form-fitting wet-suit to meet the press, Mayor Rob Grossi and

Stockwell Day says critics like this Occupy protester in downtown Fort Lauderdale, Fla. are wrong to focus on the gap between rich and poor as a problem of the free market system. (J Pat Carter/Associated Press) It's the warning first famously emblazoned

The Liberal Party of Canada wants to rebuild after it’s unprecedented defeat in the last federal election. If Liberals are wondering why they where defeated the answer is easy. Almost 80 per cent of Canadians claim that they are Christian, yet the Libera

Pundits Ian Capstick, Stockwell Day, Liza Frulla and John Ivison discuss Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s level of responsibility for a ‘fake’ citizenship reaffirmation ceremony broadcast on national television “Televised citizenship event ‘poorly han

Public Safety Minister Vic Toews and his two Conservative predecessors have been criticized in a recent Federal Court decision for repeatedly failing to provide adequate reasons when refusing to let Canadians jailed abroad be transferred to a prison in C

For a premier trying to establish her conservative credentials, Christy Clark has had a nice run of late. In no particular order, the B.C. Liberal Premier appointed a top federal Tory strategist as her new chief of staff, received national press attentio

Not long after Christy Clark became B.C. Premier, Dimitri Pantazopoulos, a pollster tied to Stephen Harper and his Conservatives, packed up his family, left Ottawa and moved to Victoria. The Pantazopoulos family is spending their first winter there. The

The Public Service Alliance of Canada was banking that public servants’ paying higher contribution rates for their pensions would spare them from further changes or cuts to their pension plans. This was based on assurances PSAC President John Gordon said

VICTORIA - As photo opportunities go, the one at the Kitsilano arena in Vancouver Thursday night was a keeper for the B.C. Liberals. There was Christy Clark, cheering along her goalie son Hamish’s atom league hockey team as it played to a tie. And there,

Stockwell Day believes interim Liberal Leader Bob Rae, left, and NDP leadership hopeful Paul Dewar, right, belong in a merged party. (Canadian Press) Political predictions are a sure sign that a new year is upon us. Here's my 2012 postulat

VICTORIA — Flagging in the polls, and with just 16 months to go before the next election, Premier Christy Clark has replaced her chief of staff with an influential Conservative strategist who has lobbied on behalf of Enbridge. Ken Boessenkool, who has se

The stakes are high and the field is crowded with highly competitive candidates. Cartoon by Greg Perry. NDP leadership candidate Thomas Mulcair on his 'cap and trade' climate plan, economic 'realism,' playing to win, and more. New Democrat leadership can

Nothing can undo the tragedy of the March 11 tsunami that killed at least 16,000 people in northeast Japan - the final tally is still uncertain - and wreaked havoc that will cost more than a quarter of a trillion dollars to repair. But is there a chance

Four years after the Supreme Court of Canada unanimously found them unconstitutional, secret hearing "security certificates" are still in use, with a number of Muslim men fighting unseen allegations while under threat of deportation to torture. Security

OTTAWA — On Nov. 27, 2000, in an election widely deemed an act of naked opportunism by then prime minister Jean Chretien, the party of Laurier won its third consecutive majority in a decade. Incredibly, the Liberals managed in the process to boost their

Wayne Helgason saw tears in the eyes of Liberal prime ministers Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin when they spoke of his peoples' plight. It was clear as day, he said, that improving the lives of aboriginals was more than political - for them, it was persona

TORONTO - Most of the information used to brand an Egyptian refugee as a threat to national security appears to have come from foreign agencies known to torture suspects, documents indicate. The three-year-old admission by the Canadian Security Intellige