I'm going to make five suggestions to the editor of the Globe and Mail on how to improve his newspaper. This may seem a tad presumptuous coming from someone who lives so far away from downtown Toronto. But hey, I've been reading the Globe for more than two decades, and I miss those days in the mid-1980s when the paper championed investigative reporting before William Thorsell became the editor.

There was another protest today near what's left of the Little Mountain social housing complex southeast of Queen Elizabeth Park.

Today, I sent an e-mail to to Clark Hoyt, public editor of the New York Times, asking if the newspaper will publish an itemized list of its reporters' and editors' speaking fees.

Vera Zyla has just announced that the Art of Loving is promoting green orgasms with the world's first 100-percent recyclable vibrator.

The Office of the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles deserves credit for launching a consultation process on June 30 on distracted driving. Nobody wants to be in front of the guy who’s text-messaging his girlfriend. Kudos to the bureaucrats if they're considering a clampdown.

The NDP's mentions of peak oil in the legislature and the Vancouver-produced film How to Boil a Frog are part of a growing volume of material calling attention to the inevitable depletion of the natural resource.

Almost twice as many Metro Vancouver staff were paid more than $100,000 compared with the previous year.

This morning (July 1), the diligent Robert Matas reported in the Globe and Mail that Winston Blackmore is the father of 101 children. The source was an RCMP affidavit.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ordered a new human-rights hearing into whether or not the B.C. Medical Services Plan discriminates against men.

After 12 years in a Vancouver Canuck uniform, Mattias Ohlund is heading to Tampa Bay. The Florida team has signed the veteran blueliner to a seven-year, $26.25-million deal.

Canwest Global Communications Corp. has announced the sale of two television stations.

Canwest Global Communications Corp. has announced the sale of Ontario two television stations.

The Globe and Mail has posted a story on its Web site saying it will resume contract discussions with approximately 480 employees after they rejected a "revised proposal" on Saturday (June 27).

For years, Premier Gordon Campbell has commandeered the B.C. government Web site as a means to promote himself.

In a speech to the NDP caucus and party officials in Vancouver, Opposition Leader Carole James claimed that Premier 7 comments