Russell Davies Guest Post- By Russell Davies The Real Canadian Superstore squeezing the poor for more profits is a big mistake and shows no consideration for low income customers and…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger We recently returned from our winter reprieve with friends in Sunny California. It was a great get away and we were treated to wonderful food, music, the…
Don Maroc In November, with the council ready to okay 4th and final reading of a rezoning to allow Edmonton-California developer Vlado Brcic to proceed with the purchase of the…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The Federal NDP has turned their backs on many NDP values and shifted to the centre under the leadership of Thomas Mulcair. A disturbing number of NDP…
This fills in the blanks on many levels. Some folks will be tad upset with the ‘Reality Check’ but it is time to defrag and tune up grass roots response…
Don Maroc – Cowichan Conversations Six weeks of trying to keep warm by a small propane fire. Six weeks of carrying picket signs, of waving at horn-blowing motorists, explaining to…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Here is Rafe’s latest piece tackling the outdated ‘First Past the Post’ system of electing dictatorships to govern Canada.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…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The transformation of our country that Steve Harper foreshadowed has been underway for sometime and the results have been devastating. The war on science, scientists, the environment…
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…
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Outstanding in his Field! Well now that Christmas is over and the offer of spending New Years with our friends Paul and Fran in California is before us,…
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…
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…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The tide is turning in the US and Canada regarding the pitfalls and dangers of fracking and the entire LNG play. Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, New…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger In BC residents face a BC Liberal-BC NDP united front in favour of fracking and all things LNG. Prices are dropping, mounting evidence of a give away…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The Vancouver Island Community Newspaper Group has been sold to Black Press; this includes the Cowichan Valley Citizen. Black Press and The Vancouver Island Community Newspaper Group…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Newspapers day has passed! Cowichan residents like people elsewhere have embraced the ‘Digital Age.’ My first reaction was what the hell was Chemainus Courier publisher Warren Goulding…
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger The announcement that long serving NDP MP Libby Davies has decided to step back from Federal politics after serving as the Vancouver East MP since 1997 will…
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger It is getting harder each day to ignore the escalating reports of environmental destruction, global warming, extreme weather and utter disregard by most of our politicians.…
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger PM Steve Harper is causing irreparable damage to our environment, and international reputation. We are increasingly being seen as the’Ugly Canadians’ Steve is a crazy man…
I know, Cowichan Conversations is mostly a political Cowichan Valley based blog, However I stray away from time to time as I am doing now. Ladies and Gentlemen, here is…
