…if it hasn’t already yet. Ian (Is Hitler To Blame? Men Love Sluts!) Tootil is back in; relatively sane leader John Cummins is apparently on his way out. Who knows, maybe kooky boy Dean Skoreyko, who played a significant role in the coup that hobbled Cummins and crippled the BCCP, will run
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Cowichan Conversations: ABC-Anybody But Clark (Video) Terrace Daily News
Because, you know what, do you know what? The Terrace Daily News featured this video with a display on their front page. It is edgy, well, the repeated screechy ‘Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar-Liar’ is edgy but then, because you know what, you know what? It is true! The marijuana question was interesting. Christy dodged
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BC Election Leadership Debate on CKNW 980 AM- 8:30AM-This Morning
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger So now the election is on, really on. Bill Good will conduct a radio debate with BC Liberal leader Christy Clark, BC NDP Leader Adrian Dix, BC Green Leader Jane Sterk and BC Conservative Leader John Cummins. It will be available for streaming as well
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The BC Liberals Are In Chaos-Will The BC Conservatives Blossom This Spring?
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Will the BC Liberals exist as a viable political force after May 14th? Will they have enough left in the tank to rebuild and re-brand their once all powerful party? Keith Baldrey’s latest column throws much of that in doubt. 20/20 hindsight would tell the BC Libs
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: B.C. Is Special
From The G&M: The Conservatives have always seemed like a party that was a few slices short of a loaf. For years it hung around the fringes of the B.C. political scene, switching mostly unknown leaders between elections while fighting a reputation for attracting oddballs and religious zealots. To the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Tory Turmoil In Beautiful B.C.
You heard it here first…It was only a matter of time before John Cummins’ bovine stubbornness and deep-seeded arrogance would be rewarded with a full-on mutiny. And you thought the federal Libs were fratricidal. And this is all apparently over the fat that Cummins’actually wants to draw a salary from party
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: UBCM Supports By-Election For Cowichan School Trustees!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes As an old politico of the CVRD flavour I have found myself intrigued by the UBCM activities taking place in Victoria this week. CVRD Director Ian Morrison Of particular interest is that Cowichan’s former school trustees have received support from the UBCM crowd in support of a democratic
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: John Cummins To Bail On B.C. Conservatives?
Dean Skoreyko may be a few cans short of a six-pack, but he does seem to have an in with the B.C. Conservative Party. So when he writes that party leader John Cummins will resign next week, I would certainly pay attention, through perhaps not place any bets on the
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Crazy Guy Has Inside Track On BC Conservatives
Dean Skoreyko is an angry flake, perhaps best known for getting thrown out of the BC Conservative Party. But he still seems to have connections in that particular political clan, and he was blogging the story of an incipient party coup for weeks before the MSM caught on. The short story,
Continue readingBigCityLib Strikes Back: Northern Gateway: B.C. Conservative Leader John Cummins Speaks Out Re Northern Gateway
July 23, 2012 – Vancouver – John Cummins, Leader of British Columbia’s Conservatives, today announced the conditions that a new BC Conservative government would require for the construction of Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline and any other projects that aim to open up markets in Asia for Canadian energy. “First, the current
Continue readingdaveberta.ca - Alberta politics blog: leaky pipeline gives slick impression of alberta oil.
Tweet A pipeline leak spews oil into a central Alberta lake (photo from @tedgbauer at https://twitter.com/tedgbauer/status/211154927446278144/photo/1) When word first broke that a leaky pipeline near the central Alberta town of Sundre had poured an estimated 1000 to 3000 barrels of oil into a tributary of the Red Deer River, Premier
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Ethics and competence not germane
Phil Hochstein is worried about the politicians who served his interests so well in recent years. In present form, most of those men and women now seem unelectable. As a result, Phil sniffs the winds of change. His plan is to rename the BC Liberal Party and merge it with
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: Can Christy Clark learn any lessons from Allison Redford?
It’s a staple of punditry to take events in one region and try to connect them to another. And far be it from me to break with tradition. But I think the parallels between Alberta and British Columbia are interesting, and I think there are definitely lessons that Christy Clark
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Toward a certain end
Lights are out on election night My point to radio reporter Shane Woodford in the twitter exchange discussed in an earlier post was that too little attention has been paid to the reasons why public approval of BC Liberals has dropped from a high of 58% in 2001 to 31%
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Competence and integrity: abject failure
John Cummins talks to Craig Oliver, CTV Question Period: “The issue really is more a matter of competence and a matter of integrity and the Liberals are abject failures on both counts. The public has simply lost confidence in them and people are walking away from the party in droves
Continue readingNorthern Insight: Hochstein threatens Clark and Cummins
It is no surprise that a handful of self-interested BC business folks are confounded by the rejection and disintegration of their proxy government. It startles me though when a representative of the unelected elite feels sufficiently powerful to issue a public warning that promises, even threatens, political change. In Women
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