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Brian Fisher I am pleased to introduce Brian Fisher to Cowichan Conversations readers. It is hoped that this will be just the first offering and that Brian will send us…
BC NDP
Liberals and NDP Must Declare a ‘MORATORIUM’ On Fracking In BC!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Much money has been made and a great deal of environmental damage has been done through the practice of ‘Fracking’ or Horizontal Hydraulic Fracturing. Canadians have had…
Social Credit – BC NDP Declared War On Wild Salmon in BC
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger I received this bombshell of an email from Alexandra Morton revealing the illegal and certainly immoral political law breaking and criminal assault against our wild salmon industry…
The BC Green Party Dictates That The Means Justify The Ends!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger The Greens, often seen and promoted as an alternative to the old line parties are not really all that different when it comes to democratic decision…
Both the BC NDP and the BC Liberal’s Support Shale Gas Fracking!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Fracking is the latest profit making bonanza for the already too rich and powerful oil and gas corporations and they seem to have our politicians by…
BC NDP Challenge on Enbridge But Embrace Fracking and the Pacific Trails Pipeline!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger The BC Liberal’s have sold us out over the Enbridge Pipeline no matter how you cut it. The BC NDP are the Enbridge Opponent Champions! The…
BC NDP ahead of Libs and Cons by a whopping 20 percent popular support. Media: Look at those Conservatives rise!
The news, in terms of rest of Canada, is breathtaking. In a survey by Angus-Reid, BC’s NDP is not just far ahead of the Cons and Libs, but gaining with…
C’mon Adrian Dix, you’ve got to be better than this
The BC Liberals are faltering. Their leader is disliked across much of the province. They are prime for a smart, disciplined opposition to pounce. The stakes are too high –…
More By-Election Talk: Port Moody-Coquitlam
Awhile ago (well, the end of January) I did an overview of the BC provincial riding of Chilliwack-Hope, where BC Liberal incumbent since ’96 Barry Penner had stepped down, triggering…
Adrian Dix overtakes Christy Clark as BC’s most popular choice for premier
This is good news for BC and for progressives. With Christy Clark shifting ever rightwards, the rise of Adrian Dix in the minds of BC residents is heartening. VICTORIA —…
Angus Reid Poll of BC: 42-28-19
As this Globe and Mail article points out (with a few inaccuracies, like 28% being the “lowest” poll number for the BC Liberals since Clark took office – that’s actually…
Can the BC NDP Actually Win Chilliwack-Hope?
According, at least, to the Globe and Mail, they’ve got the momentum: For the first time in memory, political observers believe the NDP may have a chance of winning in…
Quickie BC projection
Teddy here. I’ve been working on an updated projection table for British Columbia, using data from past provincial elections where a party has existed to the right of the BCLiberals.…
Is This Actually BC? Part Deux
Thanks to commenter bobljeffries who pointed me in the direction of this NRG Research poll conducted just awhile back, after the Forum poll, which gave these numbers: 36% BC NDP32%…
Is This Actually BC? Eh?
I know the news is now somewhat old, but there was a funky Forum Research poll out on December 15th that showed the situation in British Columbia is a whole…
Someone’s Pushpolling Against the BC Liberals…
This ironically titled “Integrity BC” poll done by Oracle Research (they did all those riding-by-riding polls for Project Democracy) is just so overtly a push poll it hurts. First, we…
Cleavage-gate: Interview with David Schreck
Several days ago pundit and former NDP MLA David Schreck made an innocuous comment regarding the appearance of an uninvited guest to the British Columbia legislature: The Premiers Cleavage. His…
Cummins, BC Conservatives wrong on gas tax opposition
#bcpoli #bcndp #bcliberals #christyclark #adriandix Upstart leader of the BC Conservatives, John Cummins is completely misguided on his and his party's opposition to the 2 cent per litre gas. I…
Bizarro World BC
Because where else can you find a provincial Liberal Party attacking the leader of the Conservative Party - for not being conservative enough!?Granted, the BC Liberals are not your standard…
Jack Layton stunner. Taking time off to treat ‘new cancer’. Nycole Turmel to be interim leader.
Good luck, Jack. Hope you return healthy and cancer free. We need you. God, we need fighters.Turmel's profile.Prediction: Blogging Tories will claim Layton is just doing it for attention. UPDATE:…