Hats Off to the Cowichan Valley Citizen!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger It was very encouraging to read the latest Cowichan Valley Citizen editorial in Friday’s edition, well done. It is all too easy for local media to…
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Quebec election 2012: Hoping for a minority
In a parliamentary system, we usually hope for a majority for our preferred party because this gives them the power to implement their policies. However, there are several situations where…
If the GOP and The Chair…
… do the next to impossible and beat President Obama, I will be curious to see the US to Canada emigration data about 12 months later. I wonder if the…
Canada’s Newest Law Student – Helena Guergis
If you are starting law school this fall at the University of Alberta, you’ll have a celebrity of sorts in your class. Helena Guergis, the former MP who unsuccessfully sued…
The BC Liberals Aren’t Dead, They’re Just Resting!
Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger The BC Liberals may appear to have been through as rough a week as there is in politics. Many say they’re dead, demised, passed on, deceased.…
Paul Donofrio: NDP Candidate. Rob Ford Supporter. Social Media Cautionary Tale.
Yesterday, I wrote about how the PC candidate in Kitchener-Waterloo, Tracey Weiler, has been running away from the PC leader Tim Hudak. In the riding of Vaughan, the ONDP and…
Kevin Falcon Has Had Enough-Resigns As Finance Minister
Finance Minister & Deputy Premier Kevin Falcon The BC Liberal Party has just suffered a body blow with Finance Minister Kevin Falcon bailing on what is an ever increasing meltdown.…
‘Cause’ for concern. PEI MPs vote on M312
After a few weeks where I officially stopped reading tweets and blog posts about M312, in order to make the best fake attempt at not thinking about the fact that…
BREAKING! Republican National Convention Stunned As Ann Romney Asks For Divorce!
Richard Hughes Political Blogger First the threat of a hurricane, aka ‘A Sign from God” and then Ann Romney blows the convention wide open with news that she has had…
In praise of (some specific aspects of) libertarianism
(written Dec 8, 2010 — uploaded Aug 28, 2012) I ridiculed the silliness of some aspects of libertarian thought in an earlier post, and planned to offer some balance by…
The 12 Year Old Girl That Silenced The World
This young Vancouver, BC girl is now 32. Perhaps she is a mother. She speaks truth and the greedy corporate assholes of the world have ignored her. Fools!
A Midsummer Night’s Robocon Scandal Update…
Alas, Canada… we’re not any closer to knowing if Pierre Poutine, aka Pierre Jones, is — or isn’t — Andrew Prescott. What of the 1,394 complaints alleging specific occurrences in…
PM Steve Harper’s Methodical Campaign to Silence Democracy
Here is an excellent piece from Keith Reynolds and carried in the Tyee. This is called re:blogging I think. In any case it was well done and available here in…
Tracey Weiler Runs Away From Tim Hudak
Is that a rooster crowing I hear? Yesterday Tracey Weiler, the “Progressive” Conservative candidate in Kitchener-Waterloo ran as far as she possibly could away from Tea-Party Tim Hudak. First in…
Environmental Assessment in Canada/PEI
TCH ‘Plan B’ – Environmental Assessment has GREAT significant impact! on a crowd of people who learn that the chances of getting a ‘significant impact’ ruling, is 100-1. Tonight I…
Here’s a pet peeve.
(5) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario