Victoria Times Colonist reporter Cindy E. Harnett’s story shows BC NDP leader John Horgan raising a charge of conflict of interest over unwarranted health ministry staff firings. The NDP is attacking the credibility of a review into the firing of health researchers two years ago, charging it was crafted to
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Cowichan Conversations: Horgan–Island Care Home Restricts Christmas Meal Guests
Victoria Times Colonist reporter Cindy E. Harnett’s story shows the stinginess of Clark Liberals The NDP painted a picture of Island Health as Scrooge Thursday after presenting documents in the legislature showing a Parksville care home is restricting residents to one paid guest for Christmas dinner. Residents of Trillium Lodge
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Politics, Hockey, Fall Sitting at the BC Legislature and Local Elections-Game on!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger We are moving into autumn, our glorious climate change driven summer is wrapping up even though our confused tomato plants refuse to stop providing even more ripe tomatoes. Last night our beloved Vancouver Canucks warmed our hockey deprived souls with a win in the season opener against
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Horgan Calls On Premier To Respect Teachers and our Public Educuation System
BC NDP Leader John Horgan VICTORIA – New Democrat leader John Horgan has written an open letter to Premier Christy Clark on the prolonged education dispute. In the letter, Horgan expresses disappointment with the government’s failed approach to date, and urges the premier to directly involve herself in the
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rafe Mair: Why Bill Bennett Needs to Resign
The tradition of responsibility is a concept that has in the past served our parliamentary system well. Strong emphasis on, in the past. The BC Liberals under Christy Clark are a destructive, negative and corrupt force. I honestly wonder if she will last her full term or will her mishandling
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Liberals refuse to release Mount Polley Mine documents
BC NDP Leader John Horgan Liberals refuse to release Mount Polley Mine documentsTen days after the tailings pond failure, the B.C. Liberals have still not released the most basic documents about the Mount Polley Mine, say B.C.’s New Democrats. “We have been calling for the full release of documents related
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: NDP Leader John Horgan Has Been Preparing For Change in British Columbia
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger John Horgan is a man on a mission to bring a balanced and progressive style of government to beleagured British Columbia. It is no small feat, but if there is a more capable and motivated political leader in Canada today, I am hard pressed to know who
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Enbridge Pipeline an Enormous Risk for Little Benefit
Following PM Harper’s approval of the treacherous Enbridge pipeline BC NDP leader John Horgan and Environment critic Spencer Chandra Herbert speak out in this NDP Media Release. Clark still camouflaging her support for unacceptable approach to creating B.C. jobs BC NDP Leader John Horgan VICTORIA – The federal decision to
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Super Industrial BC
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Positively Political Rafe Mair is back in the saddle and zoning in on issues of significance to all British Columbians. Mair is calling out to BC NDP Leader John Horgan to stand up to the powerful oil and gas corporations, in part because if he won’t, who will?
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: John Horgan Is The BC NDP Leader-Finally!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger John Horgan is a very intelligent man. He is sincere, diligent and dedicated to working to making BC a better place. Let’s pay attention and make damn sure that he is elected as our next Premier of BC. He now faces the immense challenge of balancing environmental
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Hang on to your Hats-Here comes Horgan!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Look for a rejuvenated BC NDP under Horgan’s leadership. He will engage and entertain voters so tired of seeing a dull plodding uncertain opposition. Yes, politics in BC is about to become interesting again. The Damien Gillis piece above focuses on the foibles of the ‘Christy Clark Choir’
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