Somenos Marsh Society organized a meeting last Friday evening to look into North Cowichan Council’s minding numbing plans to continue development in the Somenos Marsh flood plain area. Fortunately Cowichan…
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…
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…
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,…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger The Cowichan Green Community is an ever growing asset in the Cowichan Valley. Here they are once again reaching out with a most worthwhile program. This…
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…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger I suspect that many of you are getting as tired of hearing about yet another CVRD screw up and outright failure to responsibly represent the taxpaying…
PM Harper looks stoned but says he does not, has not and will not! If the Harper Cannabis consultants don’t stop sampling the soon to be commercialized product we are…
Rob Douglas Please join us to watch the award-winning documentary film SHIFT CHANGE at Vancouver Island University’s Cowichan Campus on Friday, September 20. The film examines employee-owned businesses that compete…
Richard Hughes Political Blogger One year ago yesterday Jim Standen Deputy Minister of Environment spelled out what had to be done to shore up and secure a safe watershed for…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger With things heating up around the contaminated site threatened Shawnigan Watershed, Cowichan MLA Bill Routley along with BC NDP Environment critic Chandra Herbert were led by…
The CVRD has finally discovered that the land use bylaw that they insisted was of no use in blocking the proposed South Island Aggregate’s proposed contaminated site does in fact…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger Well the cat has been set out with the canaries now. We are going to get a real good look at who stands where in this…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Good morning folks, Like many of you I spend a lot of time on computers, but am not all that savvy in many of the technical aspects.…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger This amazing video shot by residents in the Highlands has been bouncing around for a day or so. For those of you who have yet to see…
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Sometimes in the hurly burly of life in the late spring and summer months major issues go begging for your attention. We have been hearing about…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The BC NDP has lost its’ edge. The feisty Glen Clark victory in 1996 was the last. That was four elections ago. NDP victories and effectiveness depend…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Warning: This is very disturbing but important to watch. It is not the shock that it should be because most of us know something of the inhumanity…
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…
