Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger Wendy Holm is a leading Canadian Agrologist whose work is both inspiring and essential to representing the needs of agriculture in Canada. The threat to our agricultural sovereignty is clear and arguably more important than the threat to our energy supplies . Smarten Up Stephen! Canadian Prime Minister Stephen
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Cowichan Conversations: The BC Green Party Dictates That The Means Justify The Ends!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger The Greens, often seen and promoted as an alternative to the old line parties are not really all that different when it comes to democratic decision making. They are just as bad as the other parties it seems, well maybe not worse than the BC Liberals who also
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: First Nations Chiefs Meet With Chief Teresa Spence And March In Ottawa
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Attiwaspikat Chief Teresa Spence is now on her 11th day of her hunger strike protesting the treatment of her people, speaking out for natives across the country that have been negatively impacted by the policies of this Harper government and the violations to their treaties. The
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Cowichan Conversations Readers Do Not Trust Harper
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Do you trust PM Harper to tell the truth about trade deals with China? No, He just sold us out to Chinese State Interests on the Nexen takeover! (95%, 58 Votes) Yes, Steve is a trustworthy and dedicated PM (5%, 3 Votes) Total Voters: 61 On a
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: NDP MP Pat Martin Roasted For Calling a Spade a *)%&@@**Shovel!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger Winnipeg MP Pat Martin swears off Twitter after abusive rant against Conservatives was the headline in todays Vancouver Province. Martin was pressured for daring to risk a relevant response to the mountains of horsehit heaped upon the opposition, the parliament and the Canadian people by the
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Chief Teresa Spence’s Hunger Strike Now In Day 10- Treaties threatened by PM Harper
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Driven by anguish and rejection of the Harper Government’s disregard for long established treaties and aboriginal peoples rights Chief of the Attawapiskat Nation Teresa Spence enters day 10 of her hunger strike. There are indications that this stand is being broadly supported with natives across Canada and the
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Premier Christy Clark set up an office last year in Shanghai, China
Kevin Logan- Cowichan Conversations Contributor I have written some details about how Harper says one thing and does another with respect to the position of Chinese State Owned Enterprises (SOE) in Canada’s resource development plays and have been working to raise the flag for a very long time. Christy has
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: We Must Restructure Canada To Save It!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger How long is it going to take before some of the Conservatives MP’s wake up and stand up for Canada? Our PM Steve Harper lies to us with an ease uncommon, even for politicians. Canada is being drained and our nation is up for sale, but why?
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Green Party Is Brown, Petulant And Hypocritical
Well the Greens were looking pretty good with Elizabeth May Saanich MP being chosen as the top parliamentarian and and all but then the Federal Greens actually campaigned against the plan to finally treat Victoria’s sewage before sending it over to Washington state beaches untreated. Imagine. Now the NDP’s Murray
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: On the Left Side
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger A while back I added ‘On the Left Side’ a series of headlines about stories that I thought might be of interest to readers of this blog. Let’s face it there is so much going on and only so much time to post regular blogs that
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Liberal Joyce Murray, Green MP Elizabeth May and NDP MP Nathan Cullen Have All Called For Co-operation On The Centre-Left!
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger The Chinese curse is upon us. ‘We live in interesting times!’ Although the origins of this pearl have been disputed and dissected by academics the general message still rings true today. Our political parties of the centre left have shifted to the centre right-the centre left
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Steve Harper Selling Canada Out. It Is Called Corporatism!
Although this is funny, it is not. It is not funny!
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Chairman Harper’s Economic Desperation Deal With China
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger Selling bitumen fast, while it’s still hot, is the prime minister’s myopic motivation, says Andrew Nikoforuk in his report featured in the Tyee. We have been sold down the river by a combination of neo con corporate greed and the unrelenting far right evangelical so called
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Corporations Rule The World Through Free Trade Deals.
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger The corporate forces have controlled our Conservative and Liberal political parties for many years. They funded their elections and been there at the ready with their people to write the desired legislation for their now bought and paid for obedient elected servants. Sad truth is that
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Will Harper’s Own Conservatives Turn Against Him Over The China Deal?
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger We have been hearing about Premier Steve Harper’s deal making with the Chinese and Malaysian’s investing in the Tar Sands for some time. Now that Harper has made it official the shit may well hit the fan. Canadians of every stripe recognize the sell out and this
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Day The Cons Went Wild!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger A few months back I affiliated with ‘Progressive Bloggers’ an independent group of the centre-left persuasion. One of the bloggers ‘Montreal Simon’ is a prolific poster and an astute observer of our Parliament such as it is. His latest post raises many points but one disturbing
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: New Christmas Toys With Rick Mercer
Good Morning I see that Blogger/Journalist Laila Yuile is back with a new post coming today. As a warm up she has offered up a Rick Mercer piece. We all love Rick Mercer so here he is.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Provincial-Federal Politicians Neutered In Our Present System Of Party Discipline
John Van Dongen-Independent MLA Our Canadian Democracy has been hijacked by the political party system for far too long. Slowly but possibly surely politicians are speaking out, most often it is when they are on their way out the door. Not all wait until retirement. Former BC Liberal Cabinet Minister John
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The NHL Players Could Walk Away And Form Their Own League!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger There are many options floating around as a result of the current NHL lockout. They run from various new leagues bringing in new rich owners to replace the old rich owners to associating with the Russian KHL and European leagues to make a truly world league
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Green Party Leader Elizabeth May Is The Cream of the Commons Crop!
Elizabeth May Green Party MP-Saanich, BC
The determined and focused Elizabeth May has set a number of firsts, politically speaking.
Her election as MP for Saanich on Vancouver Island marked a first for the Green Party who had been running candidates for years without even garnering strong also ran status.
In spite of her impressive victory she was written off before she started due to the fact that the fledgling party had no real status. Few gave her much chance of gaining any status or recognition as a solitary flag carrier.
Whoa! Not only were they wrong.Ms. May is Parliamentarian of the year. Here is the report from Macleans magazine.
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