Saturday May 10, 2008
Latest Columns 
Inquiry unlikely to recommend abandoning tasers
Published: Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:00 AM Page A9
Prediction: Years after retired judge Thomas Braidwood has wrapped up his current inquiry into the use of tasers, the controversial weapon will still be in the holsters of police officers all over Canada and being blamed in people's deaths.
Think inquiry will end taser use? Not likely
Published: Saturday, May 10, 2008 12:00 AM Page S1
Prediction: Years after retired judge Thomas Braidwood has wrapped up his current inquiry into the use of tasers, the controversial weapon will still be in the holsters of police officers all over Canada and being blamed in people's deaths.
A heretic's approach to schools of the future
Published: Saturday, May 3, 2008 12:00 AM Page A8
The 21st century will belong to those nations best at adapting, discovering and inventing. In the age of globalization, it's innovate or die.So what is Canada doing to ensure we produce future generations of bright-minded people who will be the source of the kind of revolutionary ideas that will allow us to remain a player in the global scheme of things?
Probing tasered man's background is just a waste of taxpayers' money
Published: Friday, May 2, 2008 12:00 AM Page A11
Why would the state of Robert Dziekanski's mental or physical well-being, prior to him boarding his fateful flight to Canada last fall, be of relevance to the investigation into his death?
Forget the country club image, it simply doesn't pay to be a family doctor
Published: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 12:00 AM Page A8
You want to know why fewer students entering medical school these days want to become family doctors? Or why those who are general practitioners sometimes refuse to take patients with the kind of complex, time-consuming problems that cost doctors money?
Convict's easy escape leads to hard questions
Published: Saturday, April 26, 2008 12:00 AM Page S1
When you're out and about this weekend, keep your eyes peeled for a tallish, thin-looking man who is losing his hair. While that might describe several million Canadian men, this person also has a dragon tattooed on his chest - although may I suggest that if you're close enough to see it you turn around and run as fast as you can.
It's time to treat our family doctors
Published: Thursday, April 24, 2008 12:00 AM Page S1
I've met only one saint in my life: my father-in-law.I realize that's not something you often hear a person say about an in-law. But my father-in-law truly is a saint and I'm not the only person who feels that way. Just ask any of the hundreds of people who once called him their family doctor.
RCMP should have warned public much sooner
Published: Saturday, April 19, 2008 12:00 AM Page A6
Did the Mounties screw up?Now that Allan Schoenborn has been apprehended, attention has once again shifted to how the RCMP handled the search for the prime suspect in the slaying of his three young children in Merritt nearly two weeks ago.
These sad, short lives ... and nothing was done
Published: Thursday, April 17, 2008 12:00 AM Page S1
It may well be the most disturbing and damning report ever tabled in the B.C. Legislature.The most heartbreaking too.It's difficult to find a page in Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond's bold and comprehensive investigation into the deaths of four young children in northern B.C. released yesterday that doesn't make you seethe or leave you despondent.
Blaming B.C. Olympics for housing ills wrong
Published: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 12:00 AM Page A6
The poor Olympics. They can't win.Two University of British Columbia students, backed by a handful of non-profits, are filing a human-rights complaint against Canada with the United Nations Human Rights Council over the lack of affordable housing in Vancouver.
