Quicksilvers Bankruptcy Stalls Fracking Operations On The Island
Don Maroc It is never good form to gloat over someone else’s ill fortune, but when their loss is our gain it’s hard to maintain a polite composure. Quicksilver Resources,…
BC Provincial Politics
BC Libs OK SIA Permit, 5 Million Tonnes of Contaminated Soil Destined For Shawnigan Watershed
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger What a shame! Residents were duped into process with various government agencies, a mugs game at best. Polite, respectful and ineffective. Money talks. The so called appeal…
Charlie Smith’s Memo to Keith Baldrey: Democracy is Already Imperilled
Richard Hughes-Just another Political Blogger MSM legislative Global TV guy Keith Baldrey is a master on Twitter. He is not without a developed sense of distortion, as is clear in…
BC Liberals Bailing Over Auditor Leak — Where is the Lipstick!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Week in week out Black Press columnist Tom Fletcher was able to put lipstick on the BC Liberal pig. He usually spun such utter flapdoodle for the…
Rafe: Joe Oliver says fracking is safe, so it must be
Rafe has seen the light! Nice to see that Rafe Mair has come to his senses and is now backing the corporate toadies, aka the Harper Cabinet and the light…
Vancouver mom’s outrage at airline for interfering with breastfeeding draws huge online support
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger United Airlines PR department must, or at least should be in high gear after this young mother complained in ‘Twitter’ that she was shamed by an…
Head of review panel repeats call for delay to BC Hydro’s Site C Dam
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger One of the biggest illusions in BC politics is that the BC Liberals are down to earth business disciplined stewards managing the most prudent course on…
Liberals Squirming Over ‘Jiggery Pokery’ Taunts From NDP’s Brother Bill Routley
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger BC Lib’s urbane quick wit , the sharp tongued Mike DeJong, is doing a not so slow burn over constantly being harpooned by Cowichan NDP MLA ‘Brother…
Your iPhone and A Revolutionary Health Enhancing and Affordable Breakthrough
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger Fortunately this is an email that I read and am passing on to you. Check it out. This could already be a huge time saver, life…
Stephen Hume: A Tale of Two Coasts
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger We are often referred to as the ‘Left Coast’ due the liberal left tendencies of many west coasters. The way the Ottawa’s largesse is doled out,…
Maroc-Is the Cowichan Valley Ready For the High Tech Sector?
Don Maroc – Cowichan Conversations Blogger At Wednesday’s meeting of the Cowichan Valley Regional District’s Board (CVRD) Damir Wallener delivered a very professional presentation extolling the financial virtues of a…
Will This Turn Out To Be An Environmental Horror Show In Upper Cowichan Bay-CVRD Officials Fail To Act!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Cowichan Bay Estates, tucked away off Vee Road in upper Cowichan Bay gives the appearance of being at the verge of an environmental horror show that could…
LNG, Fracking and BC’s Energy Future: Nanaimo Event-Wednesday 7PM
Damien Gillis filmmaker and Rafe Mair’s partner in the CommonSense Canadian will be speaking at an event at Beban Park Social Centre, 2300 Bowen Road, Nanaimo, BC LNG, Fracking and…
Canada Needs Proportional Representation Now
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Here is Rafe’s latest piece tackling the outdated ‘First Past the Post’ system of electing dictatorships to govern Canada. Frankly I do not know how we could…
Perhaps A Beer Pipeline Would Meet With Public Approval
Blaise Salmon By Blaise Salmon While historically B.C.’s economy was resource-based, by 2012, only three per cent of B.C.’s GDP came from oil, gas and related services, according to the…
B.C. Almanac host Mark Forsythe signs off after 30 years
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger We will not easily forget Mark Forsyth who became part of our day on CBC’s ‘Almanac’ where he broadcast for 30 years. He is a person of…
Plummeting oil prices, petrol-state club. rapidly declining Canadian dollar, house sales could decline,
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Well here we are just a few days from Christmas and as you may have noticed my time for writing has been curtailed. While this is good…