Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes – Political Blogger Sometimes we can and should be discouraged and alarmed but inspite of the lurch to the extreme corporate right engineered by the worst prime minister that Canada has ever had the push back continues. Standing up is a Canadian response when pushed far enough.
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Cowichan Conversations: This is Just the Beginning of the Hurricane Season!
This is not the end of the hurricane season, just the beginning. The Corporate agenda has dominated worldwide for longer than the earth and all inhabitants and species can tolerate. Fossil fuels and their subsequent pollution drive the attack on the planet. The degree to which the multi-national energy corps
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Maroc Has Dusted Off His Keyboard And Is Out After The Frackers!
Political Blogger Don Maroc longtime journalist and historian pops up on Cowichan Conversations as a valued contributor from time to time. Many will recall his many years as a Cowichan News Leader Columnist with his column “View from the Left.” The issue of hydraulic fracking was enough to fire him
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Both the BC NDP and the BC Liberal’s Support Shale Gas Fracking!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Fracking is the latest profit making bonanza for the already too rich and powerful oil and gas corporations and they seem to have our politicians by the throat. Kicking out the BC Liberals is the answer to many of our social and economic ills, but continuing with
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rafe Mair is Back In the Saddle and Ready To Go!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Welcome back Rafe, I see that you have mellowed considerably during your time away. I sense absence did not make your heart grow fonder regarding the fracking dilema that we face in British Columbia. Perhaps it is that you do not understand the benefits of all
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: You can stay up until the 9 o’clock gun goes off!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger I grew up in North Vancouver and as a young boy recall my bedtime was set to 9′clock. In Stanley Park was a cannon that was fired at precisely at that time. Its’ loud bang was audible for miles in all directions and was the final arbitrator. Bedtime,
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Tsunami Warning Issued For BC and Alaska After 7.7 Earthquake
B.C. coast struck by 7.7 quake
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Green Party MP Elizabeth May Speaks Truth To Power in 60 Seconds
The Green Party’s only sitting MP-Elizabeth May-Saanich North & the Islands continues opposition to the sovereignty threatening China Trade Deal. She has only 60 seconds, thus democracy under the anti democratic style of PM Harper. However she makes every second count and wraps it up neatly, beating the clock.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: NDP MP Don Davies Calls For Debate On China Trade Deal
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The Federal Opposition Parties have made considerable effort to ahve this far reaching China Trade Investment Deal dealth with in parliament as it should be. In this video, and a number available to select upon its’ completion, Vancouver-Kingsway MP Don Davies tries to break the Harper loose
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Premier Christy Clark and Her Fading BC Liberals Have Abandoned These Students!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger Premier Christy Clark with her tired remains of her caucus and with imported help from a gaggle of old Conservative MP’s preach renewal at their last ditch attempt to breathe life in to the corpse aka the BC Liberals. While they are engaging in remarkable revisionism,
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Be Brave, Stay Calm, Watch for the Signs!
This took me back to the days when I received these calls. This is special. Have a nice weekend.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Jim Manly Is Back At Home In Nanaimo ;-)
Jim Manly Former Nanaimo-Cowichan NDP MP returns home in time to celebrate his 80th birthday. Jim Manly, the retired United Church Retired Minister has answered the call and travelled as a protester passenger on the Aid Ship ‘Estelle’ destined for Gaza. The Ship ‘Estelle’ was illegally commandered in International Waters
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Even if you have seen this before, it still will make you smile.
This really is special. Enjoy.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Real Threat is in Harper’s Gutting the Legal and Regulatory Framework for Oil and Gas
Kevin Logan- Cowichan Conversations Contributor Here is another Post from Cowichan Conversations Contributor Kevin Logan. Kevin Logan’s career has been diverse, ranging from small business to NGOs through finance and government. He served as a ministerial assistant to numerous ministers and a premier in the former BC NDP Administration. Kevin
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Premiers Must Block Harper’s Sellout Of Our Sovereignty
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes – Political Blogger Never has a greater threat to our sovereignty faced Canadians than that which we face in PM Steve Harper’s secret China Investment Treaty. All of Canada’s Premiers must join together and present a ‘United Front’ along with the Federal Liberals, NDP, Green Party and the Bloc to
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Cowichan Valley Water and The CVRD
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Here is a guest post from Cowichan Conversations contributor-Larry Woodruff This subject has become one of hypocrisy at its finest. Recently our benevolent members of the CVRD Board have turned the problem they have created to the public, supposedly to get quote “Our Ideas” on what to
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Harper’s China Investment Treaty Is An Unconscionable Sellout Of Our Soverignty!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes – Political Blogger I wish that headline was an extreme eggageration and that PM Harper’s Sellout of Canada wasn’t really that big a deal, but I would be wrong. I do not know why he is so hell bent determined to ruin our country but he is changing
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: “You’re a priggish, gullible, British Fool”: Conrad Black
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Oh, this is special. Jailbird Conrad Black strikes out against BBC Interviewer. The National Post and of course PM Harper are falling all over themselves to cater to ahem, Lord Black. Conrad is out promoting his revisionist account of his troubles.
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