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Cowichan Conversations: Toronto Globe & Mail Endorsement of ‘Jim’ Will Help Elect NDP’s Rachel Notley in Alberta
The smart grey suited thin lipped editorial guys at Toronto’s Globe and Mail have once again thought it over and surprise, surprise they are backing the PC ‘s Jim Prentice for premier in Alberta. Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Will we see an NDP majority in Alberta?
Polls have been suspect for some time, especially in BC and Alberta.However repeated polls by a number of polling outfits continue to show remarkable growth for Rachel Notley and the Alberta NDP. This will one Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: NDP Leading–Alberta’s Vote May Be the Most Important Provincial Election in Decades
OK, here we are with the Alberta NDP poised to form the next Alberta provincial government. Yes, as Tommy Douglas used to say ‘Politics is the Art of the Possible’ but, but Alberta going NDP! Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: From toilet to table: Peecycling research at U of M investigates urine as fertilizer
I tripped across this article in the Treehugger this morning. Interesting project taking place in Michigan that utilizes urine as a beneficial resource providing nitrogen and phosphorous sans industrial production. As the population continues to Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Cowichan Bay’s Nick Verstegg Reported To Be Safe in Nepal Following Earthquake
Yesterday’s story in the Victoria Times-Colonist-By Sarah Petrescu and Richard Watts is being welcomed by Nick Verstegg’s wife, Elly Driessen and friends throughout the Cowichan Valley. Cowichan Bay’s Nick Versteeg, right, and his guide Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: It’s On: Bernie Sanders to Announce Bid for Presidency on Thursday
Will we look back at spring 2015 as a volatile period of immense change? Vermont’s Independent Senator Bernie Sanders is going to pursue the US presidency. He will do it with vigour and he will Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Liberals back on top in new Nanos poll
Canadian politics has livened up spurred on by the sluggish economic performance, the Duffy trial, the Alberta elections, and the ongoing troubles in the Oil and Gas industry. The National Observer’s digital news site has Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Canadian stranded in Nepal says Ottawa not doing enough to help citizens go home
It seems that ever since the mean spirited Steve Harper has been our Prime Minister Canadians who run into difficulty abroad are poorly served. Canada’s pride and generosity had been well deserved and Canadians were Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Koch-Funded ‘Think-Tank’ Traveling to Vatican to Convince Pope Climate Change Isn’t Real
In the previous post the matter of the Pope’s commitment to standing up for the environment and shining a light on the realities of climate change were raised. Cowichan Conversations reader Sharon Lawrence responded Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Pope Francis Steps Up Campaign on Climate Change — Conservatives Alarmed
Climate Change concerns have been swept under the rug as much as possible by those despoiling our planet for profit. Resistance has been widespread and gathering credible currency as the drought in California, water shortages Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Baltimore Protests Turn Violent; State of Emergency Declared
All hell is breaking loose in many US cities over the last few months. It seems like hardly a day goes by without reports of another black man being shot by trigger happy racist cops. Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Avalanche from Nepal Earthquake Rips Through Mt. Everest Base Camp Harrowing video
Earthquakes causing unthinkable death, damage and suffering are not such unusual occurrences, but this latest disaster in Kathmandu, Nepal hits the extreme by all measures. Living on the West Coast, the risk of being caught Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: This Alberta Election Is Actually Exciting! Will A Shift to the NDP Hold?
Rachel Notley setting the pace We are living in tumultuous times and shifts can, in such circumstances, turn into tidal waves sweeping out the old and embracing the new. But new as in New Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BC Health officials back Vancouver’s plan to license pot shops
Richard Hughes PM Steve’s Health Minister Rona Ambrose sees pot as a narcotic that is an addictive substance. Where do these people come from. Are they really Martians? It sure feels as if Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Nepal tormented by aftershocks from massive earthquake that killed more than 2,500:
‘You cannot imagine the fear’ Sleeping in the streets and shell-shocked, Nepalese cremated the dead and dug through rubble for the missing Sunday, a day after a massive Himalayan earthquake. Nepal’s devastating Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: In Medicine Hat, Homelessness Is (Almost) Over
Medicine Hat Mayor Ted Clugston: ‘What we’re saying to other municipalities is that you can do it, too.’ Photo: David Dodge, Green Energy Futures. According to its mayor, Medicine Hat is ”a hardworking oil, Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Woodfibre LNG: Shady PR, lobby violations, fraudulent, eco-criminal owner…Is this the kind of business BC wants to welcome?
Rafe Mair has been gearing up for this most important LNG fight over locating an LNG facility in Woodfibre. Truth is folks the LNG game brings us nothing but heartburn. Here is Rafe: The war Read more…
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: 35th Annual Earth Walk Come Together For Peace, Earth and Justice
Richard — I hope you are well. I’m writing to encourage you to participate in this year’s Earth Walk for Peace and the Planet, happening tomorrow, Saturday April 25th at 11:00 am at the Read more…
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