Rob Douglas and Roger Hart have rolled up their sleeves and prepared economic development options for Cowichan that are a refreshing alternative that makes a good deal of sense. Well worth the read and your Read more…
Continue readingTag: BC Politics
Cowichan Conversations: Should political parties get inside information on whether you voted or not? – Part 1 By Peter Ewart
Peter Ewart Peter Ewart offers thoughtful well researched and reasoned posts on wwwNews250.com This 4 part series takes a look at issue of identifying those voters who cast ballots and that information is Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: This Alberta Election Is Actually Exciting! Will A Shift to the NDP Hold?
Rachel Notley setting the pace We are living in tumultuous times and shifts can, in such circumstances, turn into tidal waves sweeping out the old and embracing the new. But new as in New Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Harper, BC Tory MPs have oil on their hands from English Bay spill
Richard Hughes-Cowichan Conversations It is when events like the recent bunker oil spill in English Bay take place that the value of independent writers, thinkers, and bloggers like Rafe Mair display their real value. Here is Rafe’s take on this mess in English Bay that has spread around the harbour.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Artificial Turf Controversy Fuels Dispute Over Health Concerns In North Cowichan
Don Maroc Michelle Hutton-Marinier, in a letter to the Cowichan Citizen newspaper, voices her disappointment n North Cowichan Council’s decision to delay for a couple of weeks signing a contract to install an artificial turf field to replace one of the grass soccer pitches on Sherman Road. Her son plays
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Charlie Smith’s Memo to Keith Baldrey: Democracy is Already Imperilled
Richard Hughes-Just another Political Blogger MSM legislative Global TV guy Keith Baldrey is a master on Twitter. He is not without a developed sense of distortion, as is clear in this provocative deviation from reality highlighted in Charlie Smith’s memo below. In truth, the blogosphere is multi dimensional in its coverage,
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Time to Regulate the News Media
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The Tyee’s Associate Editor Shannon Rupp wrote this thorough analysis regarding the state of the media, published in August 2014. It seems timely to post it once again when on Vancouver Island we could soon be facing Black Press papers from one end to another. In the Cowichan
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: A Look Back To Loren Duncan’s Stated Concerns About Runaway Senior Staff Salaries
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Longtime CVRD Director Loren Duncan put his concerns about CVRD senior staff salaries on record in June 2013. As a semi recovering politician I have an appreciation for not only his insight but for stating it publicly. The group or table dynamics are such that it is
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Naomi Klein- ‘The Economic System We Have Created Global Warming’
Naomi Klein I am beginning to detect a growing trend towards changing the capitalist economic model from one in which profit is the only priority to one in which wellness is the priority, and profit must be made within that paradigm. The fact that this interview should appear in one
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Will Maroc and Wallener Find Common Hi Tech Ground In Cowichan?
Don Maroc by Don Maroc Damir Wallener is a charming guy, he’s hip to high-tech, understands high-risk financing, and is currently busy pushing Silicon Valley type development for the Cowichan Valley. No one in the Cowichan area would disagree with him about finding ways to keep our kids near to
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: The Case for ‘Yes’ in Metro Vancouver’s Transit Referendum
Well, anybody could have called this one. According to a new survey by Insights West, 53 per cent of residents plan to vote No in the upcoming 2015 Metro Vancouver Transportation and Transit Plebiscite. Only 38 per cent say they will vote Yes to the proposed half-percentage-point sales tax increase
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Bill C-51–Trudeau Liberals and Mulcair New Democrats Put Party First-Canada Second
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger I am a life long New Democrat and I am appalled at the ‘weak as water’ positioning that the Thomas Mulcair led NDP have offered in regard to the Harper anti terror Bill C 51, a bill that will, if passed, turn Canada into a CSIS Police
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Two North Cowichan Councillors Are Proposing Ways To Ease The Residential Property Tax Burden.
Don Maroc Two North Cowichan municipal councillors, who some consider to represent the opposite ends of the left-right political spectrum, are proposing ways to ease the residential property tax burden. Council veteran Al Siebring suggested a direct assault on the tax rates, while council freshman Rob Douglas wants a workable
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Support Rally For Striking Cowichan News Leader Staffer Was Solid
Richard Hughes- Blogger The wind and rain challenged the scheduled rally to support striking News Leader workers but it seemed to have little if any effect. Local citizens, trade union leaders and politicians gathered and offered their support for the folks that put out the paper, under increasingly stressful conditions.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Cowichan News Leader Workers Are On Strike!
This just in. The picket lines are up at the Cowichan News Leader. Black Press is trying to impose a two-year wages system on new employees. Here is the CHEK TV NEWS Report
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BC Liberals LNG Tax Bill equals Unprecedented Wealth Transfer and Will Pass Unopposed
Kevin Logan-Cowichan Conversations Contributor The LNG Tax Bill currently winding its way through the BC legislature will impact the very fundamentals of this Province and paves the way for a massive transfer of wealth extending decades into the future. It’s an unprecedented time. The BC Liberals had to prorogue the
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: This is Going To Be A War-Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan
Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan has gone to court challenging Kinder Morgan’s efforts to proceed contrary to Burnaby’s bylaws. If the court upholds the by-laws then Kinder Morgan will have to cease their work and leave the area. This is going to be a war-says Corrigan.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Robo-Calls come to Duncan
Appallingly, robo-calls have come to the City of Duncan. The calls, in a voice that no one recognizes, allegedly say,” Please vote for our friends, Mayor Phil Kent, Martin Barker, Rodger Bruce, George Nielsen, Travis Peterson and John Horgan.” The problem being that Mayor Phil Kent never gave his permission
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Nanaimo-Duncan Labour Council organized a debate for the three candidates vying for the North Cowichan mayor’s chair
Don Maroc – Cowichan Conversations by Don Maroc The Nanaimo-Duncan Labour Council organized a debate for the three candidates vying for the North Cowichan mayor’s chair, at the Cowichan Community Centre Sunday afternoon at 2 pm. Richard Hughes-Moderator Maybe it was because the Cowichan Valley’s unreformed political pitbull Richard Hughes
Continue reading