Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The following story by Tyee editor David Beers shows the benefit of multiple parties expressing their views on matters of importance. Here the BC Conservatives hammer the BC Liberals for their ‘untruthiness’ regarding investigations regarding foreign workers being brought into BC. The BC Conservative
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Environmental Law Alert Blog: Election 2013: Party platforms from 10,000 feet
Friday, April 26, 2013 The BC New Democratic Party released its election platform on Wednesday (April 24th), the last of the four main parties to release its platform. What? You don’t have time to read yet another election platform? Well today is your lucky day, because this environmental law alert
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Friday, April 26, 2013 The BC New Democratic Party released its election platform on Wednesday (April 24th), the last of the four main parties to release its platform. What? You don’t have time to read yet another election platform? Well today is your lucky day, because this environmental law alert
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The BC Liberals Are In Chaos-Will The BC Conservatives Blossom This Spring?
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Will the BC Liberals exist as a viable political force after May 14th? Will they have enough left in the tank to rebuild and re-brand their once all powerful party? Keith Baldrey’s latest column throws much of that in doubt. 20/20 hindsight would tell the BC Libs
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Let’s Vote For Better Schools! BCTF TV Advertising Is Pathetic!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger I have watched the BCTF campaign ads over the years. They squander hundreds of thousands of dollars on some really well produced ads and then choke and say stupid things like ‘Vote for Education’ or ‘Vote for Smaller classrooms.” The BCTF’s latest is ‘Let’s Vote for Better
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Christy Clark Declare A Moratorium Now. Cowichan Schools Facing Turmoil and Chaos!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Premier Christy Clark must step in immediately and declare a moratorium to end the chaos and disruption caused by proposed and considered changes throughout the Cowichan School District. Politically motivated threats of wholesale closures to meet shortfalls will neither resolve the fiscal challenges or meet the educational needs of our
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: B.C. Conservative Exiles Back NDP’s Adrian Dix
For a good while now, B.C.’s provincial Conservative Party has been a laughingstock. Now with the party’s hopes for renewal in tatters, members of its disaffected wing say they’ll back the NDP leader Adrian Dix. What was that line about politics and bedfellows?
Continue readingNorthern Insight: I’ll tell you what I really, really want
Is Times Colonist becoming BC’s newspaper of record? It might be the go-to place to follow BC current events, except for political commentary provided by that guy whose son toils professionally for the BC Liberal Party. RossK offers applause to TC writer Lindsay Kines in This Is What Public Service
Continue readingBC NDP ahead of Libs and Cons by a whopping 20 percent popular support. Media: Look at those Conservatives rise!
The news, in terms of rest of Canada, is breathtaking. In a survey by Angus-Reid, BC’s NDP is not just far ahead of the Cons and Libs, but gaining with 43 percent popular support while the the other two parties are tied at 23 percent. The rising predominance should be
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Angus Reid Poll of BC: 42-28-19
As this Globe and Mail article points out (with a few inaccuracies, like 28% being the “lowest” poll number for the BC Liberals since Clark took office – that’s actually 23%), this Angus Reid poll isn’t good news for Premier Clark, who is now not only facing a vote split
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Can the BC NDP Actually Win Chilliwack-Hope?
According, at least, to the Globe and Mail, they’ve got the momentum: For the first time in memory, political observers believe the NDP may have a chance of winning in Chilliwack. Certainly, Gwen O’Mahony, who won the nomination this weekend, will not be going into this by-election like NDP candidates
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Quickie BC projection
Teddy here. I’ve been working on an updated projection table for British Columbia, using data from past provincial elections where a party has existed to the right of the BCLiberals. I’d like some feedback on the projection that I have here, in map form. Note that I’m still trying to
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Is This Actually BC? Part Deux
Thanks to commenter bobljeffries who pointed me in the direction of this NRG Research poll conducted just awhile back, after the Forum poll, which gave these numbers: 36% BC NDP32% BC Liberal19% BC Conservative13% “Other”They also give a wrongly colour-coded chart which breaks down the numbers for three regions of
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Is This Actually BC? Eh?
I know the news is now somewhat old, but there was a funky Forum Research poll out on December 15th that showed the situation in British Columbia is a whole lot more complicated than first glance. The numbers show:34% BC NDP23% BC Liberal23% BC Conservative15% Green Wha… who… huh? That’s
Continue readingCummins, BC Conservatives wrong on gas tax opposition
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Upstart leader of the BC Conservatives, John Cummins is completely misguided on his and his party’s opposition to the 2 cent per litre gas. I understand that he is looking for a cheap wedge issue to …
Continue readingTea Party in Ontario? Big deal, it’s been bubbling under the surface in BC for ages.
The BC Conservative party gets a big hug from the Vancouver Sun but it cannot escape the perception that it is an outdated evangelical soup of wingnuts. I guess it has to be so extreme, considering how conservative the BC Liberal party has become.Anoth…
Continue readingBlunt Objects: Bizarro World BC
Because where else can you find a provincial Liberal Party attacking the leader of the Conservative Party – for not being conservative enough!?Granted, the BC Liberals are not your standard definition of “liberal,” but are instead a coalition of libera…
Continue readingNDP dodges a bullet, but not out of the woods
The NDP was lucky not to have faced Dianne Watts as a prospective BC Liberal party leader. She and Carole Taylor declined the opportunity to run for leadership of the party. Unfortunate for party planners and strategists, because those two ladies were …
Continue readingBC Liberals outraged that NDP supporters might participate in recall campaigns
My first response is “so what?!”
Remember the then activist, Kevin Falcon, as part of a so-called grassroots movement to unseat a number of NDP MLA’s in 1997? He was one of the ring leaders behind the recall efforts in 1997 and eventually became a pow…
Continue readingBC Liberals outflank NDP on HST – get their Mojo back
That’s what I said. The Liberals out manoeuvred the NDP by tricking the NDP MLA’s to support the notion of the province-wide referendum in 2011. In one fell swoop, the Liberals moved the HST off the front burner and upstaged the NDP. By moving to a…
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