Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Rick Mercer takes on a voyage of discovery trying to understand and explain Canada to Canadians and also to other nations. Our American friends and families don’t really think about us too much but find us polite and tidy. Could be worse I suppose.
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Cowichan Conversations: Experts Question Human Rights Watch’s Venezuela Report
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger As the condemnation of Hugo Chavez and his efforts to improve the lives of his nation accelerate the straight out revisionist flapdoodle is in high gear. The Obama administration is salivating over his death. Even President Obama lacked the grace and good manners to properly express
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Cowichan Conversations BC Election Poll
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger As we approach the next BC Election scheduled for May 14th Cowichan Conversations has been running a poll of voters intentions to date. The poll is unscientific and reflects the intentions of voters who visit this blog. The poll is still open and can be
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Salmon Confidential – A New Video from Alexa Morton
Alexandra Morton-Marine Biologist This film tells the backstory, behind the scenes of the biggest environmental government coverup ever perpetrated on British Columbians. After you watch this, please make sure all your MLA candidates watch it. They will be the landlords of this industry if they get elected as this story
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: South Americans Push Back Against Anti Chavez Propaganda
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger It is really amazing to watch both our PM Stephen Harper and US President Barack Obama shamelessly peddling their revisionist attacks against Hugo Chavez. Perhaps they should watch this 2002 Coup De’etat Video and also read the counter to the attacks against him as carried by Human
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised-2002 Coup d’etat
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Good Morning, Here is the film of the 2002 Coup d’etat where Hugo Chavez is overthown well, almost. When those who were there for the oil corps seized the Presidential Palace they were not paying close attention. There was a film crew shut inside and that is
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Stompin’ Tom Connors Has Moved On
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger This has been a helluva a week for good folks dying. Yesterday Hugo Chavez and today Canada’s folk legend Stompin’ Tom Connors. His stories are so many and so rich that they will live on along with his music. Canadian Press had this to say. Canadian country-folk
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: President Hugo Chávez Dies-The Vultures are Circling
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Democratic Socialist Hugo Chavez delivered democracy, human rights and reduced poverty for his citizens. He dared to stand up to the Americans and allied with Cuba. US President Jimmy Carter monitored Venezuelan elections and described them as the most fair in South America and yet US and
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Democracy Now on the Death of Hugo Chavez
Take a few minutes to watch and listen to Amy Goodman one of our top alternate journalists as she hosts a panel discussion the death of Hugo Chavez.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Christy Clark Survives Leadership and Passes Budget
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Speculation ran wild regarding Premier Clark’s grip on her leadership and whether or not the dissidents within her caucus would scotch the budget vote today. Bringing down her government and forcing an early election seemed a possibility 24 hours ago. Not so much now. The
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Will The BC Liberal Government Survive Today’s Budget Vote?
Richard Hughes Political Blogger Good Morning, The question swirling around Victoria this morning is whether or not Premier Christy Clark will be able to weather the storm ahead and whether or not the BC Liberal’s ‘Election Budget’ will pass. If it fails then the question of Christy Clark’s leadership will
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Premier Christy Clark Must Step Down-Martyn Brown Says.
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Martyn Brown, Former Chief of Staff for Premier Gordon Campbell, has told Jon McComb, on ‘The World Today’ CKNW 980, that Premier Clark must step down. Premier Clark told legislative reporters, this afternoon, that she will have to take more actions possibly including resigning as Premier. The last
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rafe Mair’s Prediction-Nothing Can Save The BC Liberals-Except Maybe The NDP
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Rafe looks back at his own time as a Cabinet Minister in the Social Credit Government of the 80′s, past elections and endorses the BC NDP. It is not a without reservations love-in, just that compared to the alternatives in a first past the post election it
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: It is all over for Premier Christy Clark and the BC Liberals!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Like so many of you I have read the news of scandalous behavior coming from the Premier’s office and am still pouring over the media reports that have gone into orbit on this latest scandal. I will include this one from the National Post for now and
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Time To Reform Our Dysfunctional Legislature – Our Democracy Has Been Handcuffed
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Watching ‘Question Period’ the other day what struck me once again was the dysfunctional performance of the legislature. The legislatures role has been diminished, often governments calling them into session only when they must to jam their legislation through. It is a critical element of a parliamentary
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Desperation of the BC Liberal’s Campaign Knows No Bounds.
Kevin Logan-Cowichan Conversations Contributor Which back dated paperwork is the real obstacle in the upcoming election to form the next BC government? Written by Kevin Logan The desperation of the BC Liberal re-election campaign machine knows no bounds. Oh sure, the corporate media will continue to offer a life line.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BC Liberal’s Caught Redhanded and Redfaced Again! (Video)
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger BC NDP House Leader John Horgan led off today’s Question Period by following up on yesterday’s revelations of serious wrongdoing, emanating from Premier Clark’s offices. Leaked documents showed that Premier Clark’s offices were mixing taxpayer funded civil servants and political hacks to hatch schemes to manipulate the ethnic vote. BC
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BC Liberal Kevin Krueger is a Nasty Piece of Work
BC Liberal MLA Kevin Krueger’s assholiness will be his legacy. When it is time to go most politicians tend to mellow out a bit and sheath their swords choosing to take the high ground and even smooth over some of the rough edges, not Kevin Krueger, no sir. It seems
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