When you read or listen to resource industry advocates, especially ones masquerading as objective political pundits, compare their concerns in 2009 about burning natural gas to generate peak-demand electricity to their current support for burning natural gas to liquefy natural gas. The following was first published at Northern Insight on
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Cowichan Conversations: NDP’s Jenny Kwan Has Proven Herself to Be A Woman Of Decency and Integrity
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger It is quite sickening to watch the attack on the character of Jenny Kwan, the MLA who along with Joy McPhail stood up as the only opposition to Gordon Campbell and his BC Liberals following the BC NDP wipeout of 2001. Here is the CBC coverage including video
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$109 fine for new driver taking drunk dad home 18-year-old novice driver Evan Godo received a $109 fine for not displaying the ‘N’ sign CBC News Posted: Dec 27, 2013 8:37 PM PT Here in BC, as elsewhere in Canada, the rules are flexible and depend on your status… But this
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rafe Mair Rants About BC Hydro Lies From BC Liberals, But Hydro Is Blameless
As we are treated to distortion, lies and revisionist BS Rafe Mair of the Common Sense Canadian steps in and tells it like it is. Rafe Mair The crap we’re obliged to take is becoming too odorous for these old nostrils. We’re told by Bill Bennett that there will be
Continue readingLeft Over: Rob Ford: I’m No Edsel…
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford ‘could easily get re-elected’ The mayor’s base of support hasn’t eroded much, say experts By Andre Mayer, CBC News Posted: Nov 05, 2013 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: Nov 05, 2013 6:32 AM ET Ford’s so-called ‘apology’ was the smart move for him…after all, it worked for Gordon
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: History Tells Us That Defeated BC NDP Leaders Never Make A Comeback
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger New Democrat Leaders who lose in a Provincial Election have never been able to rebound as party leader in a further election attempt, ever. Those who huddle in the backrooms following election defeats always seem to want to stay the course with the leader who has
Continue readingLeft Over: Dazed & Confused, Depressed & Not Amused….
By now the entire country knows what happened here in BC…the re-election of the Provincial Liberals (or Con-Lites) …to say that I am depressed is to state the case in an all-too delicate way. If I can derive any tiny bit of satisfaction from the election, it is that… a)
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Connections between wealth and power flourish in secret
An article I published almost three years ago is timely on this election day. Voters have an opportunity to change direction. If we do not, the plundering of British Columbia will accelerate. Gordon Campbell began with a set of principles and slid into corruption. Christy Clark started without principle. Earlier
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Martyn Brown – Gordon Cambell’s Chief of Staff Disses Christy Clark
Martyn Brown-’Think Twice-Vote Once’ Just as Christy Clark is in high gear doing her version of the Socialist Hordes are at the Gates, along comes former Premier Gordon Campbell’s ’Chief of Staff’ Martyn Brown with this commentary was published in the Georgia Straight.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Here is a Completely Objective Promo for the BC NDP ;-) Well Sort of…
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger We need a new government after 12 years of the Gordon Campbell and Christy Clark BC Liberals. I am wholeheartedly supporting Adrian Dix for Premier and the re-election of Bill Routley in Cowichan. But, you knew that anyway, right. Here is an BC NDP promo about a dead
Continue readingSong of the Watermelon: Cleaning Up Gordon Campbell’s Mess
According to every poll and every projection by every firm and every commentator, Christy Clark and her Liberal Party are about to be handed an unbalanced ass-whooping of the sort we British Columbians seem to enjoy dishing out to governing parties once every decade or so. Naturally, when this happens,
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Peeved Harper aims at ‘remaking Canadian labour force’ ‘Too many kids getting BAs and not enough welders,’ one Conservative insider says The irony of this pontificating ConJob is that one of Harper’s favourite sycophants, Gordon Campbell, single-handedly destroyed the wonderful apprenticeship program here in BC so that his political
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B.C. Liberals face budget vote amid ‘ethnic-vote’ scandal Premier Christy Clark doesn’t rule out possibility of scandal forcing her out CBC News Posted: Mar 5, 2013 7:04 AM PT Clark, like the disgraced Campbell before her, unhappily faces the onslaught of very real scandal; unlike him, however, she is facing
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BC NDP Will Have To Be Smart, Tough and Green!
Don Maroc-Cowichan Conversations Contributor BC logs should be used to create B.C. jobs, says the NDP. Absolutely, and low cost B.C. electricity should be used to make BC manufacturers competitive and more than competitive in the global marketplace. And if Gordon Campbell’s run-of-the-river power pirates insist on continuing to charge
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: On dubious partners
I’ve mostly avoided commenting on the federal Libs’ leadership race based on the need for the party’s own membership (and supportership in this case) to decide on a future direction for itself. But with one of the candidates explicitly running on a platform of cross-party dealings, I’d think there’s some
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Campbell’s wasted weekend with willy-wagglers – updated
One-percenters making changes. Anonymous reader provides interesting links in the comment section after a shuffling of deck chairs among Bilder-burglars. It’s also worth bringing to the top because Paul Fraser has been in the news lately since his…
Continue readingNorthern Insight: If BC Liberals lied before, can we believe them now?
In July 2009, Tom Fletcher of Black Press wrote about the HST announcement,
“Premier Gordon Campbell and Finance Minister Colin Hansen announced the change in Vancouver Thursday, presenting it as a revenue-neutral way to simplify the system for busines…
daveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Can Christy Clark and Alison Redford find common ground on the Northern Gateway Pipeline?
TweetBritish Columbia Premier Christy Clark sent Alberta Premier Alison Redford an email yesterday asking if they could meet in Calgary next weekend. While they appear to be cut from similar ideological cloth, the two conservative Premiers have clashed in the media over the construction of the controversial Enbridge Northern Gateway
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: alison redford attends the bilderberg. thomas mulcair visits the oilsands.
Tweet Premier Alison Redford is attending the 2012 Bilderberg Group conference. There are no shortage of internet conspiracy theories about the mysterious Bilderberg Group conference, but now Alberta Premier Alison Redford will know the truth about the invite-only private annual meeting of the world’s top neo-liberal financial, business, and political
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Truthiness in BC
During the past week, this blog’s third birthday slipped by and I barely noticed because life is busier than ever. What began as an aim to gain a little writing proficiency through practice has grown into a fairly consuming hobby. After more than 50 years as a news junkie, I’ve
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