Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger The CVRD Regional District and Shawnigan Director Bruce Fraser have been blissfully sleepwalking through an application from South Island Aggregates (SIA) to dump up to…
Peter Ewart looks into the David Black Refinery proposal Locating a bitumen refinery in Kitimat deserves scrutiny and media mogul David Black’s backers do as well. The Black proposal has…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger We have been conned by the Oil & Gas crowd for so long it is often met with resignation. I mean other choices do we…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger When the BC Liberals went to such pains to build up the ‘in house investigation’ it was highly suspicious and now we are finding out…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger It is becoming evident that the ‘Quick Wins Strategy’ was but just one arm of the BC Liberal Octupus of Deception. Now the latest scandal…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Many worried and stressed Shawnigan residents have been wondering why Shawnigan Director Bruce Fraser and the BC Liberal friendly CVRD Board have been dragging their…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Well my friends it is Friday afternoon, time for a little humour. Actually, unbeknownst to us George Carlin was hanging around the BC Legislature recently. More precisely…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger I had half heard a CBC mention of this last night but ended up missing it. But, as if my magic it turned up on the internet…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The election is on and has been for awhile now and it is becoming clear that the BC Liberals and Christy Clark are headed for certain defeat.…
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Personally I found that the dismissal of our elected School Trustees was an unnecessary action savoured by the BC Liberal Government to keep the uppity Trustees…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger You have to hand it to the ‘Right Wing Nuts.’ when. The smallest gaggle of true believers seem able to attracting funding and dispense their gospel broadly…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Good Morning, I pondered about whether or not I should put Michael Moore’s latest up on the blog this morning. It is not pretty but it is…
Richard Hughes Political Blogger The framing battle spinning around the death of Venezuelan President Hugh Chavez pits the oil interests against the rest of us. They pretend that democracy and…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger I have watched the BCTF campaign ads over the years. They squander hundreds of thousands of dollars on some really well produced ads and then choke and…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Monday mornings can be a grim way to start the week, especially seeing that so many are reeling from that so important lost hour that seems to…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger After 37 years of marriage. Jake dumped his wife for his Young secretary. His new girlfriend demanded that they live in Jake and Edith’s multi-million…
This unscientific snapshot of Cowichan Conversations followers reflects our leanings but probably is more than we can really expect. Interesting to see the Green support and the low figure for…
Christy is lucky Rafe wasn’t interviewing her! Rafe Mair has been through the episodes of a number of Premiers and his advice is unequivocal. Madam Premier the Gig is up!…
The CVRD has the authority over land use. They failed to enforce their bylaw or draw up another to protect the Shawnigan Watershed. Word has it that the Ministry of…
