Smarten Up Stephen Harper-Leave Our Farms Alone!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger Wendy Holm is a leading Canadian Agrologist whose work is both inspiring and essential to representing the needs of agriculture in Canada. The threat to our…
National Politics
The BC Green Party Dictates That The Means Justify The Ends!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger The Greens, often seen and promoted as an alternative to the old line parties are not really all that different when it comes to democratic decision…
First Nations Chiefs Meet With Chief Teresa Spence And March In Ottawa
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Attiwaspikat Chief Teresa Spence is now on her 11th day of her hunger strike protesting the treatment of her people, speaking out for natives across…
Cowichan Conversations Readers Do Not Trust Harper
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger Do you trust PM Harper to tell the truth about trade deals with China? No, He just sold us out to Chinese State Interests on the Nexen…
NDP MP Pat Martin Roasted For Calling a Spade a *)%&@@**Shovel!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger Winnipeg MP Pat Martin swears off Twitter after abusive rant against Conservatives was the headline in todays Vancouver Province. Martin was pressured for daring to risk…
Chief Teresa Spence’s Hunger Strike Now In Day 10- Treaties threatened by PM Harper
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger Driven by anguish and rejection of the Harper Government’s disregard for long established treaties and aboriginal peoples rights Chief of the Attawapiskat Nation Teresa Spence…
Premier Christy Clark set up an office last year in Shanghai, China
Kevin Logan- Cowichan Conversations Contributor I have written some details about how Harper says one thing and does another with respect to the position of Chinese State Owned Enterprises (SOE)…
We Must Restructure Canada To Save It!
Richard Hughes-Political Blogger How long is it going to take before some of the Conservatives MP’s wake up and stand up for Canada? Our PM Steve Harper lies to us…
Green Party Is Brown, Petulant And Hypocritical
Well the Greens were looking pretty good with Elizabeth May Saanich MP being chosen as the top parliamentarian and and all but then the Federal Greens actually campaigned against the…
On the Left Side
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger A while back I added ‘On the Left Side’ a series of headlines about stories that I thought might be of interest to readers of this…
Liberal Joyce Murray, Green MP Elizabeth May and NDP MP Nathan Cullen Have All Called For Co-operation On The Centre-Left!
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger The Chinese curse is upon us. ‘We live in interesting times!’ Although the origins of this pearl have been disputed and dissected by academics the general…
Steve Harper Selling Canada Out. It Is Called Corporatism!
Although this is funny, it is not. It is not funny!
Chairman Harper’s Economic Desperation Deal With China
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger Selling bitumen fast, while it’s still hot, is the prime minister’s myopic motivation, says Andrew Nikoforuk in his report featured in the Tyee. We have been…
Corporations Rule The World Through Free Trade Deals.
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger The corporate forces have controlled our Conservative and Liberal political parties for many years. They funded their elections and been there at the ready with their…
Will Harper’s Own Conservatives Turn Against Him Over The China Deal?
Richard Hughes- Political Blogger We have been hearing about Premier Steve Harper’s deal making with the Chinese and Malaysian’s investing in the Tar Sands for some time. Now that Harper…
The Day The Cons Went Wild!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes-Political Blogger A few months back I affiliated with ‘Progressive Bloggers’ an independent group of the centre-left persuasion. One of the bloggers ‘Montreal Simon’ is a prolific poster…
New Christmas Toys With Rick Mercer
Good Morning I see that Blogger/Journalist Laila Yuile is back with a new post coming today. As a warm up she has offered up a Rick Mercer piece. We all…
Provincial-Federal Politicians Neutered In Our Present System Of Party Discipline
John Van Dongen-Independent MLA Our Canadian Democracy has been hijacked by the political party system for far too long. Slowly but possibly surely politicians are speaking out, most often it…
The NHL Players Could Walk Away And Form Their Own League!
Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger There are many options floating around as a result of the current NHL lockout. They run from various new leagues bringing in new rich owners…
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May Is The Cream of the Commons Crop!
Elizabeth May Green Party MP-Saanich, BC The determined and focused Elizabeth May has set a number of firsts, politically speaking. Her election as MP for Saanich on Vancouver Island marked…