The Mount Polley Mine Disaster threatens salmon stocks and lives of fisherman in British Columbia. Now we learn of the interests of our Alaskan and Washington State neigbours. Their concerns have escalated the BC Read more…
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Cowichan Conversations: The normally pristine waters of Cowichan Lake affected by unusual algae bloom
Going green is not always desirable especially when it comes to Cowichan Lake. This CHEK TV report by Mary Griffin shows this fortunately rare sight. The normally pristine waters of Lake Cowichan are anything Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair and Former PC Prime Minister Joe Clark Speak On Bill 51
And now let’s hear from Former Progressive Conservative Prime Minister Joe Clark
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Alistair McGregor–Building the Orange Wave in Cowichan-Langford
Alistair MacGregor By Alistair MacGregor Tuesday’s election of Rachel Notley and the Alberta NDP to a majority government was a seismic event on the Canadian political landscape, and the aftershocks will continue to reverberate Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rafe: Notley should change electoral system following Alberta NDP win…no, seriously
This post by Rafe Mair was originally published in the Common Sense Canadian Rafe Mair Somehow, the day after it happened, the election of the NDP in Alberta doesn’t seem quite as Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Thunderclap in Alberta election By Peter Ewart
By Peter Ewart As the poll numbers came in, it was clear. The NDP have won a resounding majority government in the Alberta election. This result comes as a thunderclap in the province, Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rafe Calls On BC NDP Leader John Horgan To Rethink His Position On Woodfibre LNG Proposal
Rafe Mair In light of the stunning Alberta election, I’m going to revisit one or two things that I’ve dealt with recently which I believe are apropos. First of all, the political aphorism “it’s Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: NDP MLA Bill Routley Presses Minister To Test Leachate To Determine Impacts To Shawnigan Residents Drinking Water
BC Government issued a ‘Stop Work’ order instructing SIA to supply full reports on their activities. This is to be reviewed this Friday by MOE. Cowichan NDP MLA Bill Routley has been Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Alberta’s Rachel Notley Wins Majority–BC NDP’s John Horgan “People and Elections Matter and Change Can Happen.”
BC’s NDP leadership feeling optimistic after Alberta’s historical win Vancouver, BC, Canada / (CKNW AM) AM980 Zahra Premji May 06, 2015 02:18 am “People and elections matter and change can happen.”That from BC NDP Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: That’s It For Jim Prentice-He Does Not Want To Stay as Leader of 3rd Place PC’s
Start your shredders gentleman. We lost, they won and I am getting out of Dodge! Now in truth PC ‘s defeated leader Jim Prentice might not have said that or framed it that way, but Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: CHEK TV Breaks News That A Stop Work Order Has Been Issued for Shawnigan Contaminated Soil Dumping
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Could this be the BC Liberal’s exit strategy? The opposition is broad, deep and committed. The CVRD has dusted off their BC Supreme Court action to have their land Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Koch Brothers Grip On Alberta Has Made Them Rich
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The National Observer’s Digital News is an off shoot of the Vancouver Observer that has been embraced on the ‘Left Coast.’ Canada is ready, change is in the air. Articles like Read more…
Continue readingCowichan 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: Alberta Conservatives Failed to collect $13 billion in Royalties Over The Last Five Years
It is election day in Alberta tomorrow and it appears that the Progressive Conservatives are going to get a whupping. They can blame the NDP’s rising star and soon to be Alberta’s premier Rachel Read more…
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