Richard HughesPolitical Blogger In the last British Columbia election about half of the eligible voters did not bother to vote. Russell Brand was not among them, but understands the thoughts of those who did not bother. He was over in Britain sowing seeds of revolution and issuing a challenge to
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Cowichan 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: A Canadian View of the US Government Shutdown
In the best interests of Canada-US relations we must be careful to remain focused.
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: SenAntor OlsAnt Promises To Pay Back Wrongly Claimed Expenses
Inspired by this headline: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/10/02/carolyn-stewart-olsen-ndp-audit_n_4032804.html
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: 2013 Cowichan Local Government ‘Stupid Awards’
Richard HughesPolitical Blogger In an attempt to win back some of accolades and spotlight from the CVRD, North Cowichan Council has seen the CVRD’s mishandling of the contaminated soil issue, by convincingly raising them with a far reaching plan to situate important public services and building in the Somenos Marsh
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Alerts to Threats-In 2013 Europe
The English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent events in Syria and have therefore raised their security level from “Miffed” to “Peeved.” Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to “Irritated” or even “A Bit Cross.” The English have not been “A Bit Cross” since the
Continue readingTar sands ain’t funny, says Travel Alberta
Travel Alberta was begging for it. Its latest ads, featuring the many attractions of the province, are really quite nice. But then they end with the extraordinary phrase, “Remember to breathe.” Remember to breathe. How could any satirist resist a phrase like that coming from tar sands Alberta, the country’s
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: JustAnt defends pot revelation as caucus meets in P.E.I.
Inspired by these headlines: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/08/28/pol-liberal-summer-caucus.html http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2013/08/28/toronto-rob-ford-admits-smoking-marijuana.html
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Vancouver Islanders Want To Form Their Own Province!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger In our latest unscientific snapshot poll conducted by the Cowichan Conversations team of researchers and analysts it has been clearly established that Islanders want out! We are not so sure about the Gulf Islanders. We should threw them into the mix for good measure. Now before you
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Fraser Institute Faces Ridicule Over Child Rearing Cost Study
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The Fraser Institute lives to conduct self serving, right wing studies, analysis and such, generally designed to be instructive to the ears of right wing politicians and the eager and uninformed, while still being reassuring to the economically well to do set. The MSM often suck it up
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: Victims of communism memorial to be built near ParliamAnt Hill
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/08/23/pol-cp-memorial-victims-communism.html
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: PM’s Tour Ends With Chinese Reporter Being Hauled Away By RCMP
Inspired by this headline: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/08/23/harper-tour-chinese-reporter_n_3806307.html?1377288176&ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008
Continue readingParliamANT Hill: PM Harper arrives in Anthorse for Northern tour
Inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2013/08/17/politics-north-harper-visit.html
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: How To Beat Corporate Newspaper Pay Walls-Free Radio-TV & Alternate Media Options
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Like many of you I check the news, email etc. in the morning with a few cups of coffee. It is a nice way to start the day. In days past I would go out to the porch and pick up the morning paper that
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Oil Pipeline Erupts Into Fish Bearing Stream, But No Fish Harmed-Satire
Just another spill
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: Canadian Taxpayers Federation Want To Blow Up The Senate-Video
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The Canadian Taxpayers have embraced humour , satire and a little hucksterism to promote dismantling the Canadian Senate. Their goal is to have a referendum over the senates continued existence. Their claims and denunciations are a little overblown and their ridicule of Independent Senator Mike
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: How Man of Steel should have ended
I love these alternate (more logical) endings. This one presupposes that Superman is actually pretty smart. (Which, I’m not saying he isn’t, by the way. But we all know Batman is the smart one.) Alltop loves a good black hole … Continue reading →
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