My main freelance contributions have been under the National Post, while I also contribute some blog entries to the Vancouver Sun community section.
Vancouver Sun
2009
November
Little Girl Caught In The Middle Of Health Care Politics
BC Government Won’t Pay Portion Of Victoria Infrastructure Project
October
Facts Of Omission Puts VANOC In Budget Surplus
The B.C. Liberals And A Whole Lot Of Olympic Tickets
Vancouver To Be A Green Utopia By 2020
Civil Rights Exist In Canada 365 Days A Year
National Post
2009
November
153. Mike Duffy and the damage done
152. An inconvenient thirst
151. Chomsky gets it wrong
150. No beer please, we’re Canadian
149. Liberals overdose on vaccine hyperbole
148. It’s not our fault. We’re victims
October
147. Welcome to the Olympics. Commoners need not apply
146. Vancouver balances its Olympic budget with two parts delusion
145. Veterans want their money back
144. The Copenhagen climate change charade
143. Buying a golf cart on the stimulus tab
142. Pink Book promotes politics for special interests
141. Canada’s politically-motivated flu plan
140. B.C. body armour ban gets its priorities backwards
139. Vancouver pledges itself to Green Tomorrowland
138. In praise of eco-delinquents
137. Ocean Lady’s Tamils a challenge to Canada’s refugee inertia
136. What passes for conservatism in Ed Stelmach’s Alberta
135. Is it too late for Conservatives to be conservative?
134. This nonpartisan funding cheque is brought to you by the Conservative government
133. Conservatives pass the buck, with a big Tory logo on it
132. In Activistland, as in pee-wee hockey, everyone gets a prize
131. You will love the Olympics. Or else.
130. No adults please, we’re Canadian
129. Economics, Bloc Quebecois-style
128. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the self-hating Jew
127. Why people like Palin
126. Ruby Dhalla’s bill isn’t about poverty, it’s about immigrants
September
125. Big Hypocrisy in Ontario’s pursuit of Big Tobacco
124. B.C. needs a third party to call its own
123. Damaging the economy to please environmentalists
122. All hail Barack the Divine
121. What the Liberals knew about Abousfian Abdelrazik
120. Will Obama abandon Afghanistan?
119. Canadians like their war without risk
118. Vancouver wants Taliban to pause for the Olympics
117. Raphael Alexander’s advice to Ignatieff: Forget Jack Layton and play the long game
116. The implications of ‘losing’ Afghanistan
115. B.C. bungles stimulus bonanza
114. Honesty isn’t a matter of partisanship
113. Conservatives need to be saved from themselves
112. Imposing racial obsessions on infants
111. The hole at the centre of eco-arguments
110. B.C.’s Liberal excuse machine
109. No tears for Khadr
108. Can Ignatieff sell Canadians his $18-billion train?
August
107. Evidence of success in decriminalizing drugs
106. Sacrificing innocents to protect their killers
105. Chatting with Senator Demers
104. Omar Khadr and the Lockerbie effect
103. Pakistan’s anti-Taliban tactics need to follow the money
102. The right to make stupid decisions
101. Stephen Harper’s Arctic neocolonialism
100. The dog ate my reason for introducing the HST
99. All hail the health czar
98. Climate change zealots bedeviled by the limits of altruism
97. An honest Canadian done in by Ottawa’s indifference
96. Is Gordon Campbell the best B.C. can do?
95. The NDP’s internal divide over pot
94. Subsidizing Ontario
93. B.C. Liberals pick Olympics over health care
92. Save us from Gordon Campbell
91. How clouds will save the world for just $9 billion
90. It’s too late to “sell” the Afghanistan mission to Canadians
89. If you let your kids drive, don’t post it on YouTube
88. You have to hand it to the B.C. Liberals
July
87. Jason Kenney is doing a great job
86. New Conservative clemency policy gets its first test
85. Everybody, on three — ‘Boo-hoo for the public service’
84. Ottawa clarifies its limits on clemency
83. Public sector unions head for a train wreck
82. You just can’t feed Quebec enough pork to make it happy
81. High drama, heavy odour from B.C. e-mail scandal
80. Stimulus II, coming soon to a heavily indebted country near you
79. Smart enough to steal, not smart enough to hide the theft
78. Canada’s minority fatigue
77. Hey, didn’t you used to be Michael Ignatieff?
76. Obama honeymoon finally draws near an end
75. B.C. government subsidizes emissions, then taxes them
74. Is Kevin Page smarter than the IMF?
73. Refugee board puts sexual predator’s rights before those of teen victims
72. The compartmentalization of ethnic Canada
71. Who killed Neda? Not us, Iran claims
70. Obama sets Canada’s emissions rules, like it or not
June
69. Canada owes no sympathy to deserters
68. A little sex for lunch, my dear?
67. The ghost of Richard Nixon at B.C. Rail corruption trial
66. Iris Evans apologizes for nothing
65. Rethink on EI, the madness begins
64. Waiting for Abousfian
63. The muzzling of Kevin Page
62. Fleeing Stephane Dion
61. Human rights outrages, Canada-style
60. Stephen Harper’s new ‘fast-acting’ stimulus. Cures recessions before they occur
59. Raitt apologizes; now it’s the opposition’s turn
58. Once we fingerprint tourists, maybe we should tag and track them as well
57. The Omar Khadr Story, or, ‘It was all just a Big Misunderstanding’
56. RCMP plays a dirty game in Dziekanski hearings
55. Welcome to Canada. Register for your free heroin in Aisle B
May
54. If there’s a war, the military protects everyone but NDP MPs
53. Seal controversy? Er, no. Not in Canada
52. It’s about ambition, not citizenship
51. Anyone who doesn’t support easier EI is unCanadian. Except Liberals. Because it’s their program
50. How’s this for cultural relativism?
49. Quick, get the shovel away from Ruby Dhalla before she digs herself any deeper
48. Lies, damn lies and Employment Insurance statistics
47. B.C. to experiment with Rae Days
46. Toronto’s anti-war coalition of the flabby thinking
45. Police retreat against aggressive mob
44. No work, no pay. Unless you’re a Member of Parliament
43. Tamils turn opinion against themselves
42. RCMP on Dziekanski — ‘We rarely have our facts straight early on’
41. More pieces to the Abdelrazik puzzle
40. Liberals support expansion of CHRC powers
39. Valour shouldn’t be for sale
April
38. The perplexing elevation of Carole James
37. B.C.’s new $900 million convention centre felled by flood. Quit laughing.
36. Let’s just give Quebec Alberta, and be done with it
35. How Ottawa crushed a B.C. businessman
34. Take that, Earth Day
33. Mr. Ignatieff goes to Washington
32. Searching for sense in the Abdelrazik affair
31. The difficult case of Nathalie Morin
30. Jason Kenney hits it on the nose
29. Tamils tie up Ottawa for days in support of Tiger terrorists
28. Someone stop these parents before the virus spread
27. B.C.’s accident-prone Liberals head toward quiet re-election
26. Enough with the banks already. What about the printing presses?
25. Making up for lost time in Afghanistan
24. Hamid Karzai and gender apartheid in Afghanistan
March
23. Can anyone explain why we’d give ‘credit’ to criminals?
22. The Liberal party and the interracial fetish porn site
21. Racial profiling to prevent racial profiling
20. Would a coalition government have been good for Conservatives?
19. Raphael Alexander on Vancouver’s VIP-only Olympics: Even gawkers will be banned
18. Lottery sales and no brains, a direct correlation
17. Gurbax misses the memo (II)
16. UN Resolution 62/154: Thou shalt not criticize Islam
15. The left’s moral bankruptcy on Afghanistan
14. Ottawa takes the wrong road on marijuana crimes
February
13. Owning up to the Dziekanski debacle
12. Ontario Human Rights Commission declares — if you think you’re a woman, you’re a woman.
11. Muslims overwhelmingly oppose attacks on U.S. civilians
10. Is that King Kong on the Empire State Building, or a racially charged shot at Obama?
9. Vancouver gets the Olympic housing boondoggle all to itself
8. With Obama it’s hope for the best, prepare for the worst
7. B.C. Liberals show feds some conservatism
6. before the Green Party gets too excited…
5. Raphael Alexander on ‘Buy Canadian’: What Canadian?
January
4. Chicken Little, Finance Department on Line 2…
3. Need more stimulus? Move south
2. Name one thing that’s conservative about Stephen Harper’s NDP budget
1. Stephen Harper’s shifting position on deficits
