A Matter of Honor: First Nations Appeal to The Queen
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Canadians following the ‘Idle No More’ efforts that have sprung up across the country by tuning in to the MSM will no doubt have a…
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BC Liberals Election Bid Funded By Alberta Oil & Gas Interests
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The Christy Clark flip, flop, and fly over the Enbridge Northern Gateway proposal has puzzled many political observers. Her efforts to leverage a financial payoff for endorsing…
Forest minister’s changes will increase raw log exports, kill B.C. jobs, NDP say
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Are you ready for the 2013 May election? Hint, it is already underway judging by the outpouring of BC Liberal propaganda aka taxpayer funded Government bulletins…
NDP MLA Bill Routley On The Mend After A Having Heart Surgery
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes – Political Blogger- I never met a Sockeye that I didn’t like. Our Cowichan Valley NDP MLA is recovering from heart surgery to replace a valve that…
EPA Compromised. Regulator Dismissed Over Fracking Disclosures
Richard Hughes PoliticalBlogger Fracking is a ‘Mugs Game’ and it is risky, no foolhardy, to gamble with our groundwater and yet industry has managed easily enough to pressure EPA officials…
Idle No More – I Am Bullet Proof (Video)
Idle No More During the birth of the ‘Idle No More’ movement many have asked what it is that the Natives want and the answers are many. Some sense of…
Whatever Harper Does Next Is Wrong!
Don Maroc-Cowichan Conversations Contributor Here is Cowichan Conversations contributor Don Maroc weighing in once again. This time with his views on the ‘Idle No More’ protest and a shadow boxing…
Rafe Mair Is Back And I Am Stealing His Posts Again!
Rafe Mair – Political Blogger Holidays are over and Rafe is back telling it like it is. His response to the heavy handed Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s handling of…
The Canadian Conversation is Not One Dimensional-But The MSM Is! *Updated*
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The concentrated ownership of the corporate media has created predictable, dull and unreliable sources of news and information. Canadians have seen their once diverse ‘Mainstream Media’ devolve…
Misguided Journalist Terry Glavin Misunderstands ‘Idle No More’
Don Maroc-Cowichan Conversations Contributor MISGUIDED VICTORIA JOURNALIST MISUNDERSTANDS IDLE NO MORE by Don Maroc Terry Glavin is a well know media commentator on all things cultural and political. He claims…
For Frack Sakes!
Idle No More The Common Sense Canadian, an excellent online blog, is shepherded along by Damien Gillis and Rafe Mair. Along with an impressive stable of contributing writers they have…
Unist’ot’en Action Camp: Stopping Pipelines In Their Tracks
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger It struck me from the outset that the Natives were Canada’s best chance for pushback against corporate and oil and gas interests. Who else could or would…
Canada Imports Wage Slaves To Our Shame! Where Are Our Unions?
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Many of us have heard of the exploitation of foreign domestics attending the needs of some well off Canadian families and the atrocious conditions they work…
Caleb Behn-One of B.C.’s Bright, Emerging Native Political Leaders (Video)
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger BC’s ever growing independent documentary film efforts are filling a void that screams for credible alternate assessments of our approach to the threats faced by the largely…
US Bad Gas Ruining Engines and Voiding Warranties
Richard Hughes Political Blogger It sure seems like the oil and gas corporations will rig the game and stack the deck to squeeze every nickle and dime out of the…
Why Did The BC Liberal’s Dump Auditor-General John Doyle?
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger The BC Liberal’s got it right when they hired John Doyle almost six years ago, but now they are nervous. I mean, didn’t Doyle read the…
BC Supreme Court Rules CVRD Eco Depot Opponents Were Right!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger There will be much said and much written about our out of touch CVRD Politicians and their misdirected staff over their blatant misuse of public funds…
Idle No More-Video From Vancouver’s Waterfront Station
Here is a video report courtesy of Damien Gillis and the Common Sense Canadian On January 2, 2013, hundreds of First Nations and non-indigenous people converged on Vancouver’s Waterfront Station…
Veteran Province Cartoonist Joins Deep Rogue Ram
Check out ‘Deep Rogue Ram’ and you will be saving it as a favourite. I certainly have. I discovered it by way of Laila Yuile’s ‘No Strings Attached’ another to…
Racism Growing In Our Canada And It Must Be Faced!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger By now you have read the bigoted no nothing tripe that pops up anonymously in the comments section of media online blogs and news sites. It is…