Here is a David Suzuki post on the controversy over wind power By David Suzuki I have a cabin on Quadra Island off the British Columbia coast that’s as close to my heart as you can imagine. From my porch you can see clear across the waters of Georgia Strait
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Cowichan Conversations: Olympic Hockey Canada vs USA Today 8:45 AM PST CBC TV
If you are counting on the SHAW Cable TV Guide for the schedule for this huge event then you will miss it! Shaw’s schedule guide as of 7:45 AM is incorrect and while I am waiting on line listening to their commercials and annoying music of sorts in the background
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Welcome to The Intercept
Richard ‘Hub’ HughesPolitical Blogger Good morning, We can hardly log on these days without hearing new reports of surveillance and interference in our ability to read and hear independent journalism. Take a look at ‘The Intercept.’ It is a recent entry in the independent and alternate media community. Their stable
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Nebraska Court Decision Bad News For Keystone Pipeline
Keystone XL access shut down by Lancaster County Judge Oil pipeline faces prospect of more delays because of staunch opposition.Now, unless the law is reinstated by a higher court, Calgary-based pipeline builder TransCanada Corp. might be forced to seek permission from every last landowner on the route. Read the full CBC story
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Exploding BC LNG Myths – Part One
Kevin Logan-Cowichan Conversations Contributor In this post Kevin zones in on BC Liberal Government claims of prosperity ahead. Recently the BC Government published an online quiz to “test the knowledge” of British Columbians on the coming LNG revolution. It amounted to a propaganda exercise with the sole purpose of testing how well the BC
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Why “Own the Podium” Sets Canada Up for Failure
Brett Wilson a former competitive swimmer and now a successful entrepreneur philanthropist has outed the stupid, insensitive and counterproductive media driven “Own the Podium’ mantra that soils what is or can be a wonderful international series of events. I could not agree more Brett. These athletes struggle to reach the heights
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The First Honest Cable Service Ad
Here is a refreshingly honest disclosure from the Cable Industry. Finally honesty and disclosure in advertising. Those offended by vulgar language might want to pass on this one.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Vancouver Island vs Texas Frackers
Don Maroc Cowichan Conversations Contributor The frackers are moving closer. We may have a front row seat to learning what the Peace River farmers and Alberta ranchers have been living through. Last year Quicksilver Resources Canada purchased the former Elk Falls pulp mill site on the north side of Campbell
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics: Cancelled: Alison Redford’s expensive Afghanistan photo-op
TweetAlbertans discovered this week that Premier Alison Redford cancelled a secretly planned trip to war-torn Afghanistan after suicide bomber blew herself up in a Kabul restaurant , killing twenty-one people, including two Canadians. Ms. Redford was leading a trade mission through India last week and had secretly planned to stop
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Wikileaks exposes weak environmental provisions of TPP trade deal
Leaders of the Trans-Pacific Partnership meet in 2011 Read this Jan. 15 story from The Huffington Post’s Kate Sheppard on the release of a secret draft chapter on the environmental terms of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. WASHINGTON — WikiLeaks published a leaked draft of the environment chapter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership on Wednesday, and
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Government of Canada Must Respect the First Nations Rights and Treaties
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Hardly a day goes by without hearing of another environmental disaster. In most cases they are easily traceable back to the doorsteps of greedy ‘Oil and Gas Corporations’ combined with reduced or eliminated federal and provincial regulations. Do we hear outrage and a call to action from
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Cynthia Koenig’s Invention Reshapes the Lives of Millions of Women and Girls
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger I came across this live saving invention while browsing through Facebook. It is brilliant and will make a significant and beneficial change in the lives of millions of women and girls! You just never know what will find on the internet. Much of it worthwhile When
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Greenpeace Arctic 30 activists happy to be home after Russian prison
Alexandre Paul upon his release from Russian prison on November 22 (AFP/Valdimir Baryshev) MONTREAL – Even after getting arrested at gunpoint, spending two months in a Russian jail, and a third in limbo while awaiting his exit visa, Greenpeace activist Alexandre Paul says the protest was worth it. In fact,
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: Uganda passes its Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Uganda has passed its Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009. A Parliamentary spokesperson, Helen Kawesa, has confirmed it. The bill now goes to Ugandan President Yowari Museveni, for a signature. Museveni previously said he was not in favour of the bill, but he can’t stop it constitutionally — only delay it at best.
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: Uganda passes its Anti-Homosexuality Bill
Uganda has passed its Anti-Homosexuality Bill 2009. A Parliamentary spokesperson, Helen Kawesa, has confirmed it. The bill now goes to Ugandan President Yowari Museveni, for a signature. Museveni previously said he was not in favour of the bill, but he can’t stop it constitutionally — only delay it at best.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Vindication for Snowden? Obama Panel Backs Major Curbs on NSA Surveillance, Phone Record Data Mining
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Hardly a day goes by without learning about further intrusions into the privacy of citizens in both the US and Canada. Edward Snowden’s handling of the damning intrusions and once unthinkable surveillance has increased public recognition and appreciation for his efforts shining a light on the unprecedented
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Ex-Harper advisor slams Canada’s Keystone XL pipeline promotion
WASHINGTON – A former Harper government appointee used a keynote speech at a Washington event Monday to trample Canadian authorities’ message on oil pipelines while describing the country as an environmental “rogue state.” Mark Jaccard became one of the first people nominated by the Conservatives to the environmental file when
Continue readingThe Common Sense Canadian: Harper government spending $40 million to clean up Tar Sands’ image
Stephen Harper is trying hard to convince other nations not to shun Tar Sands bitumen (Adrian Wyld/CP) by Bruce Cheadle OTTAWA – The Conservative government is spending $40 million this year to advertise Canada’s natural resource sector — principally oil and gas — at home and abroad. Natural Resources Minister
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