Richard Hughes-Political Blogger What is it exactly that the NHL Owners do to justify the money they make? They don’t skate, check, shoot or score and yet they control professional hockey and send that annoying Gary Bettman around to squeeze out more profits for the owners. He threatens to shut down
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Cowichan Conversations: What’s More Likely, Voter Fraud Or A Bee Sting?
This video nails it, but Canadians take note as well. Voter suppression and other voter control efforts are underway by the Harperites!
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Canadian Politics- A Significant Shift Is Underway!
Quebec Premier Elect – Pauline Marois The old saying that a week is a long time in politics was never more true than what we are looking at in Canadian politics today. The Pauline Marois PQ minority government victory and the losses for Liberal leader Jean Charest coupled with the wave
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Canadian vs American Health Care- A View From Both Sides!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger Ian Reid knows the reality of both American and Canadian Health Care systems and his blog and the comments that follow are right on the money. It is called ‘The Real Story’ and that is exactly what you will find there. Ian has been there
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Here is a Weather Report That You Can Believe In!
TV Weather reports are absoltely boring, well usually. Check this out
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Will the Right Wingers Finally Be Set Back On Their Heels?
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger If we were to judge the future political direction of Canada and the US based on recent political activity progressives should be clicking their heels with glee. So let’s see, in British Columbia the BC Liberals (Who are really Conservatives) are in meltdown with diminished
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BC Liberal Blair Lekstrom Bails-Coleman Stays
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The meltdown continues as the BC Liberal Christy Clark led government continues to falter. BC Transportation Minister Blair Lekstrom has followed previous Cabinet Ministers out the door in what is appearing to be an exodus of unprecedented proportion. Mr. Lekstrom was a solid performer and
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Enough Cowichan Regional Nonsense
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Larry Woodruff is a Shawnigan Resident with strong feelings and opinions about local governance. He has sent them along to Cowichan Conversations, Cowichan Valley Citizen and the Cowichan News Leader. In two years no one in our political arena of the CVRD or North Cowichan
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Cowichan Valley Labour Day Picnic-Ladysmith Beach 11 AM – 3PM
Canada’s Labour Day came about after following years of organizing, strikes, parades and protests. Labour Day was declared as an Official Holiday in 1894 by Liberal-Conservative Prime Minister Robert David Thompson. A glimpse into the history can be viewed in this video from Canadian History Magazine. In the Cowichan Valley the
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Hats Off to the Cowichan Valley Citizen!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger It was very encouraging to read the latest Cowichan Valley Citizen editorial in Friday’s edition, well done. It is all too easy for local media to be compromised and pull their punches editorially. This editorial nails it and that it is what the community needs. I
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The BC Liberals Aren’t Dead, They’re Just Resting!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger The BC Liberals may appear to have been through as rough a week as there is in politics. Many say they’re dead, demised, passed on, deceased. Finance Minister & Deputy Premier Kevin Falcon was apparently overcome with the Premier’s call for “Family Values” and by gum
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Kevin Falcon Has Had Enough-Resigns As Finance Minister
Finance Minister & Deputy Premier Kevin Falcon The BC Liberal Party has just suffered a body blow with Finance Minister Kevin Falcon bailing on what is an ever increasing meltdown. Christy Clark can bob and weave but this is bad news for the beleagured Premier. It is not going to
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: An Eye Opening Week in Wet’ suwet’ en Territory
Dorothy Field has recently spent a week in Wet’suwet’en territory in northwestern BC in efforts to help the Unis’tot’en (the Big Frog clan) and Lhe Lin Liyin (the Guardians who are in the path and now facing the impacts of the “Pacific Trails’pipeline. She has kindly contributed her story to
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The 12 Year Old Girl That Silenced The World
This young Vancouver, BC girl is now 32. Perhaps she is a mother. She speaks truth and the greedy corporate assholes of the world have ignored her. Fools!
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: PM Steve Harper’s Methodical Campaign to Silence Democracy
Here is an excellent piece from Keith Reynolds and carried in the Tyee. This is called re:blogging I think. In any case it was well done and available here in tact. The plan is revealed in a book by the PM’s former top strategist Tom Flanagan. By Keith Reynolds, 18 Aug
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: North Cowichan Budgeting Should Be Participatory
Rob Douglas is a Cowichan Valley activist very instrumental in organizing a series of meetings regarding Cooperatives in the Valley. Here is his latest column written for the Cowichan News Leader and reproduced here with his permission. Participatory Democracy has been practiced in many areas throughout the world and was
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: It Is All About Christy Clark! Not!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger The Village of Lions Bay’s Most Prominent Political Commentator is calling for Premier Clark to step aside for the good of the BC Liberal Party and the Province of BC. How many of us have had the same idea? A great many I daresay. I expect
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Let’s Make Our Hospitals Healthy Places!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger A report released today outlines policies that will require nurses to take flu shots, or wear a mask! Hello! Why wouldn’t shots for all health workers be mandatory? Actually while we are on this topic here are a few more examples of how to reduce sickness
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Why the Tar Sands are Bad News for Canada
James Laxer is an economist and Political Scientist, one of the founders of the “Waffle Movement”that attemped to pull the New Democratic Party left and controlling our natural resources nationally as a great many other countries had done. Although Laxer gained support from 37 percent at the 1972 convention the
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: John Horgan Itching For An Election!
Call an Election now Christy! Christy Clark said this last night on the evening news.”You know I think British Columbians elected me leader because I am different.” British Columbians didn’t elect her leader. Election!!!!- John Horgan BCNDP House Leader
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