Harper and His Cabal, When Men get Desperate. . .
I haven’t watched the thursday political panel on The National for a while but I caught it yesterday and was somewhat surprised by what I heard. The conversation was further…
I haven’t watched the thursday political panel on The National for a while but I caught it yesterday and was somewhat surprised by what I heard. The conversation was further…
And I was hoping she’d survive long enough to run the B.C. Libs on the rocks in the May elections. Having thrown most of her closest advisers under a good…
Richard Hughes Political Blogger Good Morning, The question swirling around Victoria this morning is whether or not Premier Christy Clark will be able to weather the storm ahead and whether…
In case you’ve been wondering what everyone’s all a-twitter about, here’s a link to the ethnic outreach memo: http://inci.pe/eomemo, courtesy the BCNDP. People who read this page, also read: Questions…
From the Legislature today: On the ethnic outreach memo controversy: The Premier has made a categorical assertion, not weeks ago, days ago, that this was not the case. Now, I…
Spin alert! In the quiet part of the legislative day before question period called Statements by Members, normally reserved for constituency updates, Premier Christy Clark rose and announced that Minister…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Rafe looks back at his own time as a Cabinet Minister in the Social Credit Government of the 80′s, past elections and endorses the BC NDP. It…
The BC cabinet has finished its non-emergency emergency meeting this evening, meeting with Premier Christy Clark, whom the media are now openly calling the “embattled premier.” Speaking to reporters, Clark…
Assorted content for your Sunday reading. – Chrystia Freeland comments on the disproportionate influence of the super-rich in a democratic system which is supposed to value citizens equally: “I think…
BC Libs are going down in flames, and I don’t care. They’re lucky the BC Conservatives have imploded. That might mean the difference between a mere thumping and a Dix…
Conservative icon Tom Flanagan’s defining moment. Below: Dr. Flanagan in happier times; the six signatories of the Alberta separatist Firewall Manifesto; Richard Nixon saying goodbye during his 1952 Checkers speech.…
TweetOne month ago, Premier Alison Redford took to the airwaves to warn Albertans about the revenue problem, or ‘bitumen bubble‘, the government will face in the 2013 provincial budget. The…
Razzle-dazzle, sis-boom-bah, balanced budgets, rah-rah-rah! Danielle Smith and the Wild Rosehip Tea Party yell squad cheers for Alison Redford’s Tory team’s worst plays on the field. The actual Alberta opposition…
Cowichan school district eyes closures in wake of deficit CBC News Posted: Feb 14, 2013 8:03 AM PT Last Updated: Feb 14, 2013 9:22 AM PT Eden Hawthornwaite,the fired past…
Please see today’s Vancouver Sun — or click here — for my latest letter to the editor. This one is about BC Premier Christy Clark’s efforts to raise government revenue…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The BC Liberal’s, when under the firm grip of former Premier Gordon Campbell, liquidated much of BC Hydro, the the once proud mothership of our Crown Corps.…
I don’t know. Do you? No. And, it seems, we won’t be permitted to determine if the BC Liberal government is lying to us about their future vision of rolling…
David Akin’s On the Hill, November 2/12, Latest job numbers: BC is number one — in job losses ” ‘I’m going to run on (being) number one in job creation,’…
Two weeks before Sukh Dhaliwal was acclaimed BC Liberal candidate for Surrey-Panorama, he was served with six charges of tax evasion. Province columnist Mike Smyth wrote in November that the…
Don Maroc-Cowichan Conversations Contributor BC logs should be used to create B.C. jobs, says the NDP. Absolutely, and low cost B.C. electricity should be used to make BC manufacturers competitive…