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…
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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…
All I Want for All I Want for Christmas-Rafe Mair
Rafe Mair Rafe Mair lays it on the line. It’s the ‘Environment’ stupid may have been an alternate headline. It certainly is the message. The real challenge is who will…
‘Idle No More’ Receives Support from Columbia- Aboriginal Pushback Grows
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Support for Attawapiskat Chief Teresa Spence is it sees going international as the word of her hunger strike for aboriginal justice continues. Canada’s Prime Minister…
Merry Christmas To All Cowichan Conversations Readers, Contributors and Enablers
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah now past, Season’s Greetings and the lot. It is a time to revel in the company of friends and family, eat too…
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…