In Public Opinion Research conducted by the District of Fort St. James 198 respondents indicated a significant majority (86%) opposed the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal. The following letter was put on the Joint Review Panel registry last Friday, and spells out the enormous difficulty industry and the Harper government face
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Trashy's World: Yeah.
Quebeckers? Think about it. Do you really want another separatist government or one that is even greener and unknown than the péquistes? Think about it. (8) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingwRanter.com: Slicing through ignorant anti-circumcision rhetoric
Share this: Every once in a while, the subject of circumcising male newborns and boys rears its ugly head – no pun intended – and the discussion rarely takes long to veer into ethnocentrism, if not outright intolerance. With the best of intentions, and without realizing it, many people who
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: It May Not Be Over, But It’s Forked #RoboCon
Stick a fork in it, Elections Canada is done like dinner. They’ve been sitting on evidence that ties Prescott to Poutine, and have known since at least May, 2012. Why they are not aggressively pursuing this investigation, when it’s at the heart of a national democratic crisis, is anyone’s guess.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Hats Off to the Cowichan Valley Citizen!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger It was very encouraging to read the latest Cowichan Valley Citizen editorial in Friday’s edition, well done. It is all too easy for local media to be compromised and pull their punches editorially. This editorial nails it and that it is what the community needs. I
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Quebec election 2012: Hoping for a minority
In a parliamentary system, we usually hope for a majority for our preferred party because this gives them the power to implement their policies. However, there are several situations where a minority government is actually preferred such as I argued ought to be the case for the 2011 Ontario election
Continue readingTrashy's World: If the GOP and The Chair…
… do the next to impossible and beat President Obama, I will be curious to see the US to Canada emigration data about 12 months later. I wonder if the Harperites have thought of this? Millions of Democrats and other progressives trying to escape an emerging theocracy… should they be
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Republicans, get in my Vagina!
Ah, political satire. Filed under: Politics Tagged: Feminism, Rant, Republican “strategy”, War on Women
Continue readingLaw is Cool: Canada’s Newest Law Student – Helena Guergis
If you are starting law school this fall at the University of Alberta, you’ll have a celebrity of sorts in your class. Helena Guergis, the former MP who unsuccessfully sued Prime Minister Harper and the Conservative Party of Canada, is starting law school this year according to the Toronto Star,
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The BC Liberals Aren’t Dead, They’re Just Resting!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger The BC Liberals may appear to have been through as rough a week as there is in politics. Many say they’re dead, demised, passed on, deceased. Finance Minister & Deputy Premier Kevin Falcon was apparently overcome with the Premier’s call for “Family Values” and by gum
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: US Navy Seal Contradicts Official Version Of The Murder Of Osama Bin Laden!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Frankly I do not have any great love for Osama Bin Laden, or terrorism by any of our world’s perpetrators. However, the May 2nd, 2011 intrusion into sovereign Pakistan territory moved the yardsticks further down the field than anybody should feel comfortable with. US President Barrack Obama
Continue readingThe Equivocator: Paul Donofrio: NDP Candidate. Rob Ford Supporter. Social Media Cautionary Tale.
Yesterday, I wrote about how the PC candidate in Kitchener-Waterloo, Tracey Weiler, has been running away from the PC leader Tim Hudak. In the riding of Vaughan, the ONDP and their leader Andrea Horwath, the opposite has been the case. Paul Donofrio, the ONDP candidate, has been completely ignored by
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Kevin Falcon Has Had Enough-Resigns As Finance Minister
Finance Minister & Deputy Premier Kevin Falcon The BC Liberal Party has just suffered a body blow with Finance Minister Kevin Falcon bailing on what is an ever increasing meltdown. Christy Clark can bob and weave but this is bad news for the beleagured Premier. It is not going to
Continue readingROAR!: ‘Cause’ for concern. PEI MPs vote on M312
After a few weeks where I officially stopped reading tweets and blog posts about M312, in order to make the best fake attempt at not thinking about the fact that Canadian MPs will be voting on my access to primary healthcare services, specifically abortion, I am back in the swing of things.
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: An Eye Opening Week in Wet’ suwet’ en Territory
Dorothy Field has recently spent a week in Wet’suwet’en territory in northwestern BC in efforts to help the Unis’tot’en (the Big Frog clan) and Lhe Lin Liyin (the Guardians who are in the path and now facing the impacts of the “Pacific Trails’pipeline. She has kindly contributed her story to
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: BREAKING! Republican National Convention Stunned As Ann Romney Asks For Divorce!
Richard Hughes Political Blogger First the threat of a hurricane, aka ‘A Sign from God” and then Ann Romney blows the convention wide open with news that she has had a her fill of Mitt! This story broken buy one of America’s Leading News Services, ‘The Onion’ is through the underground,
Continue readingEclectic Lip: In praise of (some specific aspects of) libertarianism
(written Dec 8, 2010 — uploaded Aug 28, 2012) I ridiculed the silliness of some aspects of libertarian thought in an earlier post, and planned to offer some balance by noting that their inherent suspicion-of-authority has played a big role in raising awareness of the financial crimes and improprieties of
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The 12 Year Old Girl That Silenced The World
This young Vancouver, BC girl is now 32. Perhaps she is a mother. She speaks truth and the greedy corporate assholes of the world have ignored her. Fools!
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: A Midsummer Night’s Robocon Scandal Update…
Alas, Canada… we’re not any closer to knowing if Pierre Poutine, aka Pierre Jones, is — or isn’t — Andrew Prescott. What of the 1,394 complaints alleging specific occurrences in 234 of Canada’s 308 federal ridings? As far as I can tell, Elections Canada isn’t even investigating anything any more
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: PM Steve Harper’s Methodical Campaign to Silence Democracy
Here is an excellent piece from Keith Reynolds and carried in the Tyee. This is called re:blogging I think. In any case it was well done and available here in tact. The plan is revealed in a book by the PM’s former top strategist Tom Flanagan. By Keith Reynolds, 18 Aug
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