Richard Hughes-Political Blogger PM Stephen Harper set out to change Canada so that it would not be recognizable. He has succeeded in spades and at the same time as he is being damned , by association so are we all. He has diminished our sense of pride and replaced it with
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Cowichan Conversations: PM Steve Harper Under Fire In Question Period (Video)
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The Senate furor continues and if anything seems to be gaining momentum in our nations capitol. Harper has been lying through his teeth for years and although he has excelled at it for years it appears he may have spent his currency Not so much now as
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Conservative Senators Controversy Is A Convenient Dodge From Real Issues Facing Canada
Dorothy Field-Cowichan Conversations Contributor The senators in question have done exactly what Harper appointed them to do – trumpet the Conservative brand at tax payers expense. Harper and the PMO seem to have OKed, their shenanigans. Only now he mounts his moral podium to denounce and eject them. Fun and
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Our Government’s Directing The RCMP To Clear Path For Fracking
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The battle lines have been drawn in New Brunswick as the Mi’Kmaq First Nations stand to defend their unseeded territory from fracking and threatening their way of life. The RCMP, as they have done throughout our history, have come in to push the natives back and their
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: We are being fracked and occupied by the Oil and Gas Industry!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Deep down a great many of us knew that this Enbridge pipeline would be jammed through come hell or high water. The hell and high water part is still an unknown. There is no greater fear in the political world than the fear of the unknown. Harper
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Rick Mercer Headlines, His Latest Rant And The Canada-USA Women’s Hockey Brawl
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger Well summer is indeed over but what a great fall we are having. Garlic to be planted, garden to be put to bed for the winter and some hard hitting investigative pieces for the blog await. Well not so much for now. We all need a
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Will NAFTA Rescue the Corporations Facing Anti Fracking Opponents?
This was originally posted on the Common Sense Canadian in Energy and Resources Obey law, minister tells New Brunswick fracking protesters Fracking protest in New Brunswick (photo: Colin McPhail) by Emma Lui Communities everywhere are calling for a stop to fracking – from Elsipogtog First Nation’s highway blockade in New
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Will Canada Choke on Conservative Corporate Cannabis?
It is time to tax and toke! Once Liberal party leader Justin Trudeau admitted smoking pot on occasion and actually inhaling it all bets for the status quo approach were off. His calls for legalization, tax and toke, have met with very clear support from Canadians and that has thrown PM
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Malaysian LNG Promise Is Actually A Massive BC Giveaway
There was a curious interchange heard during ‘Debates on Budget Estimates’ last May. BC Energy Minister Rich Coleman explained to BC NDP Energy Critic John Horgan that he could not supply or disclose information because he was bound by ’Non-Disclosure Agreements’ If you missed that gem, here it is. (Video) Horgan replied that he
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Our Prime Minister Steve Has Pretty Shaky, and Dubious Friends and Colleagues, but then…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The days of easy-going top down manipulation and disregard for almost everyone could be drawing to an end for PM Steve Harper. In todays National Post Dean Del Mastro MP is a featured cheater of the week. Oh, yes it is a beautiful day but
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Dorothy Field has returned from another visit with the Unist’olen Clan’s Blockade
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger Dorothy Field is an artist, writer, poet and world traveler. She has once again attended the Action Camp of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation. Dorothy brings us clarity through her writing and story telling skills. Her insights and on the ground experience combined with her deeply rooted
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: A Little Common Sense Goes A Long Way!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger Our friends over at the Common Sense Canadian, Rafe Mair and Damien Gillis are putting out some of the best journalism available in Canada today. Running independent blogs helps keep the MSM and our politicians at all levels on their toes. It is important to all
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Radioactive Bluefin Tuna Caught Off California Coast!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The Fukishima Nuclear spill has put the world on alert as to the dangers of radioactive pollution that effects the ocean, and all the living species that exist there or depend on its bounty for food, survival and recreation. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) owners
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Justin Trudeau has Toked! Is he the only MP? Hardly!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Justin Trudeau has it seems a habit of telling the truth and speaking sensibly about marijuana, legalize it. He has smoked pot, ho hum. That is not the surprise, it is that he is not hiding like other politicians who have and do toke up, those who have
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Vancouver Island Could Become Canada’s 11th Province
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The concept of Vancouver Island going its’ own way as Canada’s 11th province is being floated once again. Separated by land, sea and air many Islander’s think of themselves as ‘Islanders’ first, British Columbian’s next and then of course Canadians. A fledgling group based out of Cowichan
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Code RED! Hamilton in Crisis in Harper’s Canadian Nightmare
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger By now most of us know that we in Canada are in serious trouble, much of it induced by Steve Harper’s uncaring federal government combined with the forces he cares about, the greedy corporate industrial interests. This is criminal neglect and only possible when the laws
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: ***Newsflash*** Bill Vander Zalm Puts Politicians on Notice over Chemtrails!
Former BC Premier, the man who led the successful fight over the hated HST, has now turned his energies towards the threat of chemtrails. Those trails in the sky most of us have believed to be jet stream are thought by many to be dangerous aluminum and barium released to
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Caricnogenic Pollution in Lac-Mégantic at High Levels
The real story of the Lac Megantic Train Wreck is yet to be fully told by the MSM. However credit to CBC for this piece including videos. It is a start. The explosion is telling us that bitumen is far more volatile and dangerous than the previous oil spills that
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: PM Harper has set up a sophisticated program to read our email and monitor our online activities.
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Good morning folks. I was looking to do some tidying up and editing posts on the left side under News & Opinion from Home and Abroad. These are items from across the internet that I include because of their interest and relevance. This story regarding surveillance caught my eye again and
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Police Brutality in Canada! Is This Democracy?
Richard Hughes Political Blogger Make no mistake folks the genie is out of the bottle and fascism is staring us right in the face. Many people do not want to hear that or deal with that unwelcome reality but it is undeniably the reality of Canada today. This video is
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