Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger The Village of Lions Bay’s Most Prominent Political Commentator is calling for Premier Clark to step aside for the good of the BC Liberal Party and the Province of BC. How many of us have had the same idea? A great many I daresay. I expect
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earthgauge: Harper government scraps 3,000 environmental reviews on pipelines and other projects
Mike De Souza continues his great work for Postmedia exposing the environmental assaults of the Harper government. Harper government scraps 3,000 environmental reviews on pipelines and other projects | canada.com. The Harper government’s budget legislation has forced the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency to cancel nearly 3,000 screenings into potential environmental
Continue readingTrashy's World: If you want to see…
… how utterly pathetic CPC trolls can be, and you’re on Twitter, check out the Tweets spewed out by @RobertRoss4. Wow. The dude clearly hasn’t a life. Probably paid by the CPC to sit at his computer all day and think of anti-progressive vitriol. They, um, should re-evaluate the quality
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: For a young peoples’ video look at the history of the Tay Canal please click the link below, by which I mean…
…this one! I am so proud! Not that I had anything to do with this (and I didn’t) but because the video shows how the appreciation of Perth (Lanark County, Ontario, Canada) history is, and will continue to be, alive and well! Congratulations to everyone, particularly the young people and
Continue readingTrashy's World: Listening to Pierre Polievre…
… on CBC’s The House this morning was a tough task. His rant about the CRTC’s ruling against those nasty and evil Liberals was reminiscent of a nerdy school hall monitor rhyming off the names and offenses of his fellow students to the vice-principal. But I’m curious, these partisan word
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Canada Politics News Roundup For Friday, August 24, 2012
The revelation that the Harper Government has authorized the use of information gleaned through torture is the highlight of our summary today.
Continue readingTrashy's World: KFC
sux. I’ll elaborate later. (4) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Let’s Make Our Hospitals Healthy Places!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger A report released today outlines policies that will require nurses to take flu shots, or wear a mask! Hello! Why wouldn’t shots for all health workers be mandatory? Actually while we are on this topic here are a few more examples of how to reduce sickness
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Why the Tar Sands are Bad News for Canada
James Laxer is an economist and Political Scientist, one of the founders of the “Waffle Movement”that attemped to pull the New Democratic Party left and controlling our natural resources nationally as a great many other countries had done. Although Laxer gained support from 37 percent at the 1972 convention the
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Condemn An Industry
I often condemn the tar sands oil industry as a communist owned, unethical, dirty mess that’s destroyed Canada’s reputation just for a quick (geological-time) buck. There are engineers writing for Fox News that are condemning the green economy, and green jobs, because they are uncreative hacks responsible for depressing our
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: National Energy Strategy a Deception of EPIC Proportions, Designed to Fleece Canadians
In this piece, the first of a series of three, we explore why a National Energy Program is political suicide, yet something called a National Energy Strategy is all the rage. Written by Kevin Logan and featured in the Commonsense Canadian. Decades ago Canadians were treated to a strategy that
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: John Horgan Itching For An Election!
Call an Election now Christy! Christy Clark said this last night on the evening news.”You know I think British Columbians elected me leader because I am different.” British Columbians didn’t elect her leader. Election!!!!- John Horgan BCNDP House Leader
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Laila Nearly Tripped Over The Elephant!
Laila Yuile-No Strings Attached Laila Yuile has drawn the conclusion that as things evolve Opposition Leader Dix may well be the next Premier and if he is and then if he kicks a separate BC Assessment into play there could be trouble. How could this possibly, you ask increduously? Read
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The Lawyers Just Love Our CVRD Directors!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger I’ll betcha that the lawyers just love this litigious CVRD Board. Now they are suing Fisher Road Recycling for allowing commercial packers to bring in recyclables and compostables which of course contribute to reducing the waste stream. Wasn’t that the CVRD Directors pitch, driving towards Zero Waste?
Continue readingPaulitical Satire: We Need Activist Government NOW More Than Ever!
So, the past couple of weeks have given us some stark and sometimes troubling reminders why we not only STILL need governments of all shapes and sizes, but also why we need governments that are truly interested in their citizens’ well beings when it comes to our economics and environment. Now,
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Bitumen, Bitumen Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off!
Richard Hughes Political Blogger With a headline like that I decided to steal it along with the rest of Ian Reid’s latest post on his excellent and revealing blog, ‘The Real Story.” Ian tells of yet another bitumen proposal, that of an amazing new air borne pipeline project, valued at $100
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Quebec on the Wrong Side of History – Secular Charter Exceptions.
Maybe we should update our preferred torture methods, hanging perhaps? Our society is progressing ever so slowly (and will continue to do so if we don’t let the corporations win, restore the 25% tax rate please). I often look to the politics and citizenry of Quebec for cues on progressive
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Dear Jack
Dear Jack, It’s 2012. Do you know where your children are? They’re wondering why our Prime Minister would cut the funding for the science he claims will determine the future of the Northern Gateway pipeline, a project that a significant portion of the population opposes. They’re in the streets in
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Where are the Red Deer River Oil Spill Updates?
Plains Midstream Canada provides Red Deer River oil spill updates once a fortnight — that’s once every 2 weeks, or 14 days. And MSM? Well, MSM has not filed a story pertaining to the Red Deer River oil spill in 14 days… and counting. Coincidence?
Continue readingRandom Ranting Raving and Ratings: Tory Affidavit Attempts to Cast Doubt on Robocalls Survey
The Council of Canadians presented polling data to back up claims that misleading calls in seven ridings affected the outcome of the 2011 federal election. Conservatives recently released an affidavit challenging the validity of t…
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