Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger During these ‘Dog Days of Summer’ political life at the BC Legislature continues. Below find a series of questions from Hansard where Cowichan MLA Bill Routley raises a number of issues of concern to Cowichan residents. DEBATES OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY (HANSARD) ________________________________ HOUSE BLUES
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Cowichan Conversations: Green Party MLA Andrew Weaver Changes Colours-Green Mixed with Red Makes Brown
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Andrew Weaver is not wasting much time putting his oar in the water. As the only and BC’s first Green MLA he is under a lot of pressure. I wish him every success pushing both the Liberals and the NDP into greener pastures. Some of
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Josh Fox on Gasland Part 2, the Fracking-Earthquake Link & the Natural Gas Industry’s Use of PSYOPs
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger When Gasland first hit for many it was an early wake up call. Nominated for an Academy award Jeff Fox blew the lid of the dangerous risks and terrible damages done by fracking for natural gas. The same threats face BC residents as the BC Liberal government
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Renewable Energy Not All It Appears
Patrick Smyth, a regular Cowichan Conversations reader, is not an IPP booster. He has given us permission to carry his recent letter to the editor in Whistler’s Pique News Magazine. I have been watching Quebec-based Innergex’s Upper Lillooet Power Project and was shocked to see it is actually going ahead. I
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Sometimes the Internet Delivers Encouraging Content
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger There is a seemingly non stop supply of non corporate controlled news, opinion and information available on the internet. I have listed many of them under the Alternate Media Tab at the top of the page. This morning I added another informative and interesting addition ‘Whiteout
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Provincial audit of CVRD brass’ wages could be coming
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Cowichan News Leader reporter Peter Rusland has been fuming over the wages and increases at the CVRD for some time. Well now finally a Director has stood up and called for an overdue examination regarding salary rates and shocking annual increases for some of the CVRD’s highest paid
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: CVRD’s Morrison Calling for Municipal Auditor
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger This is a long overdue move by Director Morrison, but still it could be of value. The CVRD politicians are so out of touch that any rattling of their cages will be welcomed. For too long our elected Directors have just gone with the flow. They all
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Nine Defeated BC Liberal Candidates Awarded Political Jobs. So Far.
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Here is an update from a previous post about the ‘Horganator’ providing a little sharped edged humour and entertainment in the BC legislature yesterday. Horgan had delighted in pointing out that four visitors in the gallery were defeated Liberal candidates that landed up with politically appointed jobs on
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Sean Leslie Looks Big Problems at BC Hydro-This week in BC
This Week in BC -Sean Leslie Looks at BC HYDRO
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BC NDP Leader Horgan Turns Tables on BC Liberals-Embarasses Liberals Over Political Payoffs For Defeated Liberal Candidates
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger There is no doubting it then when BC NDP House Leader John Horgan has the glint in his eye and the opportunity presents itself he is the oratory star of the BC Legislature. It seems he is through his understandable ’retching’ over the election loss and is
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Bill Routley Challenges BC Liberals Over Threat of 5 Million Tonnes of Contaminated Soil Destined For the Shawnigan Watershed
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger As we enter the lazy hazy days of summer the BC Legislators are huddled in the Pointy Buildings at the foot of Douglas Street. Cowichan NDP MLA Bill Routley rose and queried the new Environment Minister Mary Polak about the threatened Shawnigan Lake Watershed, Creek, Lake and
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Deadly Insecticides Kill Over 30 Million Bees in Elmwood, Ontario, Canada
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger All right this is enough of the death dealing from our chemical companies. In Elmwood, Ontario- Canada, the devastation is frightening in its impacts. Recently in Oregon there was an estimated 25 to 50 thousand bees found dead in a parking lot. Bees are threatened worldwide
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Big Brother’s power is building, warns George Orwell biographer
Mankind, like the proverbial lobster in the pot, is becoming conditioned to losing rights and freedoms at an alarming rate. ‘Orwell wrote 1984 as a warning. He felt that if someone didn’t sound the alarm loudly enough, eventually a lot of the freedoms he cherished would be lost. -’CBC News
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Joe Easingwood-Longtime Victoria Broadcasters Dies of Cancer
Victoria Broadcaster Joe Easingwood dies at 75. R.I.P. Joe Joe Easingwood, one of BC’s and certainly Victoria’s most successful talk show broadcasters has died of brain cancer. He was 75 years old. Times Colonist reporter Amy Sharp’s story is available here.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Cowichan Digest-Stolen From the Citizen, News Leader & Times Colonist
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Summer is a lazy time in many ways, well at least it is this morning for me. I will enjoy it for now . An acre of mowing and gardening awaits as the temperatures rise and it will truly become the ‘Warm Land’ over the weekend. While
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Scandalous Government Coverup of ISA Virus In Salmon
Here is another shocking post from marine biologist Alexandra Morton Alexandra Morton-Marine Biologist The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE), our global first line of defence against farm animal epidemics, just stacked the odds against stopping ISA virus from spreading in British Columbia. They stripped the lab I am using
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Whipped-Sean Holman on ‘Party Discipline’ CBC the Current
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Friday morning, 8:30AM June 28th, Rick MacGinnes-Rae, hosting CBC’s ‘the Current’, will peer into the secret world of party discipline. His guest will be Sean Holman. a former ‘Public Eye Online’ blogger, talk show host, columnist and the force behind his latest project ‘Whipped! This will be most
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Cowichan Conversations Readers Want Change With NDP Leadership
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Adrian Dix suffered the worst upset ever for the NDP. Yes, in 2001 we were almost wiped out but then the expectations were low, very low. Heading into a Provincial Council meeting this weekend it will be interesting to see if the Dix loyalists can stave off
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