Tag: Cowichan Conversations
Cowichan Conversations: BC Liberals Put The Shawnigan Lake Watershed Under Threat!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The threat to the Shawnigan Watershed, Creek, Lake and Drinking Water has been before the South Cowichan Community for over a year. Local government efforts collaborating with Environment Minister Terry Lake have proven to be a cruel and ineffective diversion that saw the CVRD
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: CRD Secret Land Deal For Sewage Plant Blowing Up In Their Faces!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Don Maroc called this morning after reading the front page story in the Colonist about the CRD’s secret land deal to build a sewage treatment plant in Esquimalt. He told me that they’re no smarter than the Cowichan Valley Regional District politicans. This is just the same
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Transgender Bill Is About Equality, Not Bathrooms
Esquimalt MP Randall Garrison sponsored Bill 279 Esquimalt- Juan de Fuca NDP MP Randall Garrison championed Bill 279 which shows more support for the transgendered than I thought would have been possible. It was supported across party lines including 18 Conservatives. That is encouraging perhaps we can look forward to more
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Bill Routley Challenges BC Liberals Over Contaminated Soil Controversy
Here is a letter from MLA Bill Routley challenging Environment Minister Lake to step in and do the right thing for the residents of Shawnigan. Cowichan BC NDP MLA Bill Routley Parliament Buildings Victoria, BC V8V IX4 Telephone 250.387.3655 Fax 250.3873468 bill.routley@leg.bc.ca Hon. Terry Lake Minister of
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Harper’s So Called World Class Safety Measures Hit the Rocks
Raeside Rocks!
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rick Mercer and the ‘Canadian Made Zenn Car’-Zero Emissions Zero Noise
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Apparently it is available in BC! Does anybody know anything about this? This is a very cool piece with Rick Mercer. Onward Richard
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Bill Routley Challenges Environment Minister To Protect Shawnigan Watershed
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The CVRD Regional District and Shawnigan Director Bruce Fraser have been blissfully sleepwalking through an application from South Island Aggregates (SIA) to dump up to 5 Million tons of contaminated and toxic soils onto their Stebbings Road property in the Shawnigan Watershed. The application
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: How Realistic is David Black’s Kitimat Refinery Proposal?
Peter Ewart looks into the David Black Refinery proposal Locating a bitumen refinery in Kitimat deserves scrutiny and media mogul David Black’s backers do as well. The Black proposal has apparently attracted Swiss backers and certainly has our Premier’s attention but her need for a credible hook to hang her beleaguered political
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Alberta Premier Redford’s Desperation Is Showing!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger We have been conned by the Oil & Gas crowd for so long it is often met with resignation. I mean other choices do we have? Truth is we have a great many choices especially if you target a substantial reduction say by 2035. A
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rafe Mair Calls on Christy Clark To Do The Right Thing-Resign!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger When the BC Liberals went to such pains to build up the ‘in house investigation’ it was highly suspicious and now we are finding out why. The ship is rotten from the Premier’s Office down and it is sinking. Rafe Mair’s latest post calls for
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Rot is Spreading-Premier Clark Should Have Resigned!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger It is becoming evident that the ‘Quick Wins Strategy’ was but just one arm of the BC Liberal Octupus of Deception. Now the latest scandal described below confirms a culture that has abused the public trust and and agan used publicly paid staff to
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Political Games Being Played Over Application To Dump Contaminated Soil In Shawnigan
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Many worried and stressed Shawnigan residents have been wondering why Shawnigan Director Bruce Fraser and the BC Liberal friendly CVRD Board have been dragging their feet over the SIA application to dump 5 million tons of contaminated soil in the Shawnigan Watershed. Although facing unthinkable
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: George Carlin – The Truth About Life In Premier Clark’s Office
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Well my friends it is Friday afternoon, time for a little humour. Actually, unbeknownst to us George Carlin was hanging around the BC Legislature recently. More precisely in the spirit of openness and transparency he was slumming and checking out life in the Premier’s office, observing Premier Clark
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The End of Growth – CBC Video
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger I had half heard a CBC mention of this last night but ended up missing it. But, as if my magic it turned up on the internet and so here it is. Economist Jeff Rubin and environmentalist David Suzuki might seem an unlikely pairing. But they’ve been
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BC NDP Gaining Ground Over Christy Clark’s BC Liberals
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The election is on and has been for awhile now and it is becoming clear that the BC Liberals and Christy Clark are headed for certain defeat. The real question now is how bad will it be for them? We are looking at a possible landslide that
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: NDP MLA Bill Routley Challenges BC Liberals Over School Closures
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Personally I found that the dismissal of our elected School Trustees was an unnecessary action savoured by the BC Liberal Government to keep the uppity Trustees in line, not only here but throughout the province. This is not just about money. This shines a light on an
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Canadian Taxpayer Federation Exposed! In running for ‘Turfy Award’
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger You have to hand it to the ‘Right Wing Nuts.’ when. The smallest gaggle of true believers seem able to attracting funding and dispense their gospel broadly throughout the MSM without a murmur of questioning, measuring or guaging its’ accuracy or value. In Canada we are
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: America, You Must Not Look Away (How to Finish Off the NRA)
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Good Morning, I pondered about whether or not I should put Michael Moore’s latest up on the blog this morning. It is not pretty but it is the truth and with or without a cup of coffee it is what must be faced, really faced. Yes Canada,
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