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By Richard Hughes, on May 16, 2013, at 4:51 pm Richard ‘Hub’ Hughes- Political Blogger
New Democrat Leaders who lose in a Provincial Election have never been able to rebound as party leader in a further election attempt, ever.
Those who huddle in the backrooms following election defeats always seem to want to stay the course with the leader who has failed to win and yet all evidence points to that course will ensure another loss.
That is not change, that is not renewal. It is a combination between an attachment to the status quo and in many cases the trappings, real or imagined that go with hanging out with the (Read more…)
By Thor, on May 15, 2013, at 3:14 am Christy Clark may have led her party to a stunning upset against all predictions, but she lost her own seat to the NDP’s David Eby.
Elections BC: Vancouver-Point Grey results.
My two cents on why the NDP lost: Conservative party support swung to the Liberals to stop the NDP, and the youth vote, which strongly supports the NDP, didn’t show up to vote.
By Richard Hughes, on May 13, 2013, at 7:17 pm Alexandra Morton-Marine Biologist
Alexa Morton, Marine Biologist, has been our voice protecting salmon for years. She has led the way exposing the excesses of the commercial open pen farmed salmon operations.
She has today come out with a very important message of support for the BC NDP.
The Common Sense Canadian featured this breaking news. Here it is.
By Guest Blog, on May 7, 2013, at 2:27 pm By: Pembina Institute | Press Release: VANCOUVER — An assessment of climate change issues in political platforms reveals clear distinctions between British Columbia’s four major parties. Prepared by the Pembina Institute, the assessment looks at the following four election issues with implications for climate change and the province’s ability to meet its [...]
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By Richard Hughes, on May 2, 2013, at 10:30 pm
By Jeff Jedras, on April 27, 2013, at 8:42 am After a BC election radio leaders debate, NDP leader Adrian Dix faced the press, and questions on his Kinder Surprise. And it wasn’t pretty. Between back-dating memos and forward-dating decisions, Dix’s messaging is more difficult to follow than the plot of Inception.
By Andrew, on April 26, 2013, at 6:55 pm Friday, April 26, 2013
The BC New Democratic Party released its election platform on Wednesday (April 24th), the last of the four main parties to release its platform. What? You don’t have time to read yet another election platform? Well today is your lucky day, because this environmental law alert summarizes the platforms of the NDP, the Liberals, the Greens and the Conservatives into 4 handy, easy to look at word clouds.
[Updated May 1, 2013 - Two separate people have suggested removing common terms from the word clouds so that words like "BC" and "government" don't overshadow (Read more…)
By Jeff Jedras, on April 24, 2013, at 11:59 am There’s an election happening on the left coast, and for all the preoccupation last year about the BC Conservatives, it’s quickly shaping up as a choice between Christy Clark’s BC Liberals and Adrian Dix’s BC NDP.
Heck, even BC Conservative leader John Cummins admitted to reporters that, in the last election, he was unhappy with his incumbent and instead cast a protest vote for the BC NDP candidate. Apparently he didn’t even consider voting for the candidate of the party he now leads. So I’m not sure why anyone else would either.
Anyway, apparently the NDP have been making hay with a (Read more…)
By Obert Madondo, on April 16, 2013, at 4:13 pm By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Dayleen Van Ryswyk, the BC NDP candidate for Kelowna-Mission, has resigned after the racist comments she made online against Canada’s First Nations surfaced earlier today. She also denigrated French Canadians. Called them bigots. This sad episode will not slow down the New Democrats‘ march to a [...]
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By Obert Madondo, on April 14, 2013, at 10:23 pm By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: A big announcement from the Adrian Dix and the BC New Democrats today. If elected, an NDP government will institute several measures to reduce the corroding influence of big money on our democracy. First of such progressive measures will be a ban on union and corporate donations. [...]
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By Richard Hughes, on April 2, 2013, at 1:46 pm Richard Hughes-Political Blogger
Will the BC Liberals exist as a viable political force after May 14th? Will they have enough left in the tank to rebuild and re-brand their once all powerful party?
Keith Baldrey’s latest column throws much of that in doubt.
20/20 hindsight would tell the BC Libs that they should have relieved Christy of her duties months ago. Now few want to be seen or connected with her. That will be tough as we are now in election mode.
BC Conservative Leader-John Cummins
I am wondering whether or not BC Conservatives will blossom into a new voice of the
. . . → Read More: Cowichan Conversations: The BC Liberals Are In Chaos-Will The BC Conservatives Blossom This Spring?
By Richard Hughes, on March 12, 2013, at 11:44 pm Richard Hughes-Political Blogger
I have watched the BCTF campaign ads over the years. They squander hundreds of thousands of dollars on some really well produced ads and then choke and say stupid things like ‘Vote for Education’ or ‘Vote for Smaller classrooms.”
The BCTF’s latest is ‘Let’s Vote for Better Schools!’ This is brilliant. Now, who would that be exactly?
BCTF President Susan Lambert
The BC Liberals preach about their commitment to families and education.
Surely the BC Greens support the schools. The BC Conservatives, well I don’t know what they say but I am sure that is
. . . → Read More: Cowichan Conversations: Let’s Vote For Better Schools! BCTF TV Advertising Is Pathetic!
By Richard Hughes, on March 9, 2013, at 6:43 pm Christy is lucky Rafe wasn’t interviewing her!
Rafe Mair has been through the episodes of a number of Premiers and his advice is unequivocal. Madam Premier the Gig is up!
Read the whole post here.
By Richard Hughes, on February 17, 2013, at 7:07 pm Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger
Premier Christy Clark must step in immediately and declare a moratorium to end the chaos and disruption caused by proposed and considered changes throughout the Cowichan School District.
Politically motivated threats of wholesale closures to meet shortfalls will neither resolve the fiscal challenges or meet the educational needs of our students in Cowichan. Pursuing such a controversial and disruptive agenda at this time is unwarranted and unacceptable by any reasonable measure.
Premier Clark’s Government Has Run Out Of Time.
The BC Liberal Government has run out of time pure and simple. The only reasonable and responsible action is to declare a
. . . → Read More: Cowichan Conversations: Christy Clark Declare A Moratorium Now. Cowichan Schools Facing Turmoil and Chaos!
By Richard Hughes, on February 11, 2013, at 11:21 pm Brian Fisher
I am pleased to introduce Brian Fisher to Cowichan Conversations readers. It is hoped that this will be just the first offering and that Brian will send us his thoughtful observations as we burst into spring.
He is an internationally known arborist with a degree in Psychology and Business. He is an R.P.Bio (retired).
Brian is a past board member of the International society of Arboriculture, the Tree Canada Foundation and Mid Island Co-op.
Brian supports Strategic Voting as way to advance progressive representation which is the subject of this post.
Many of us, who follow
. . . → Read More: Cowichan Conversations: Opportunity To Demonstrate Strategic Cooperation
By Richard Hughes, on January 28, 2013, at 1:52 pm Richard Hughes-Political Blogger
Much money has been made and a great deal of environmental damage has been done through the practice of ‘Fracking’ or Horizontal Hydraulic Fracturing.
Canadians have had a heads up following horror stories in the US but never mind there is money to be made. The politicians of all stripes are as weak as water when it comes to regulating, reporting and permitting of these fracking operations.
BC and Alberta’s energy resources used to make the provinces hum, but today the difficulties are becoming harder to sweep under the carpet.
Check out this report from Fracking Canada and then question
. . . → Read More: Cowichan Conversations: Liberals and NDP Must Declare a ‘MORATORIUM’ On Fracking In BC!
By Richard Hughes, on January 21, 2013, at 11:53 pm Richard Hughes-Political Blogger
I received this bombshell of an email from Alexandra Morton revealing the illegal and certainly immoral political law breaking and criminal assault against our wild salmon industry and all those who work in and around it.
The natives were sidestepped by cooperative DFO personnel and all political parties have their fingerprints on this unbelievable and tragic assault.
The linked full report from Alexandra Morton follows and is highly recommended. It appears that she has compiled much of this material herself and is once again standing up, telling the truth and shaming the devil.
Alexandra Morton-Marine Biologist
The
. . . → Read More: Cowichan Conversations: Social Credit – BC NDP Declared War On Wild Salmon in BC
By Richard Hughes, on December 21, 2012, at 9:11 pm 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 making. They are just as bad as the other parties it seems, well maybe not worse than the BC Liberals who also have a penchant for fixing nominations by running roughshod over local constituency associations, but still democracy seems to be a bumpy road, especially with our first past the post system.
If we had proportional representation as an electoral model many of the ingredients for rigging the game and stacking the
. . . → Read More: Cowichan Conversations: The BC Green Party Dictates That The Means Justify The Ends!
By Richard Hughes, on October 30, 2012, at 2:21 am Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger
Fracking is the latest profit making bonanza for the already too rich and powerful oil and gas corporations and they seem to have our politicians by the throat.
Kicking out the BC Liberals is the answer to many of our social and economic ills, but continuing with the dangerous and environmentally damaging process of fracking is a deal with the devil that we cannot afford on so many levels.
You can try to dress it up but when push comes to shove ‘Fracking’ is BC’s ‘Tar Sands’ with a great many of the same environmentally destructive downsides.
Energy Minister-Rich
. . . → Read More: Cowichan Conversations: Both the BC NDP and the BC Liberal’s Support Shale Gas Fracking!
By Richard Hughes, on August 16, 2012, at 1:43 pm Richard Hub Hughes-Political Blogger
The BC Liberal’s have sold us out over the Enbridge Pipeline no matter how you cut it.
The BC NDP are the Enbridge Opponent Champions!
The Green Party is well, too corporate friendly for my taste, but then look at the BC NDP today.
Pacific Trails Pipeline will carry “Fracked” Natural Gas to Kitimat and then Shipped to China.
They are gallantly fighting Enbridge while supporting fracking and sending LNG through the Pacific Trails pipeline that is rumoured to be partnering with Enbridge for part of the route.
This has flown under the radar to a large extent with
. . . → Read More: Cowichan Conversations: BC NDP Challenge on Enbridge But Embrace Fracking and the Pacific Trails Pipeline!
By Jymn, on April 3, 2012, at 8:14 am The news, in terms of rest of Canada, is breathtaking. In a survey by Angus-Reid, BC’s NDP is not just far ahead of the Cons and Libs, but gaining with 43 percent popular support while the the other two parties are tied at 23 percent. The rising predominance should be the story du jour across the media.
Not at the Globe and Mail. Reading the article on the poll, you’d think the story is not the
By Jymn, on March 28, 2012, at 1:44 pm The BC Liberals are faltering. Their leader is disliked across much of the province. They are prime for a smart, disciplined opposition to pounce. The stakes are too high – and too opportune – for stupid mistakes.
Well, guess what? The leader of the party primed to take over the Liberals did a very stupid thing. He rode the Skytrain without paying. And got caught. Ok, I’ll take him at his
By Volkov, on March 20, 2012, at 11:47 am Awhile ago (well, the end of January) I did an overview of the BC provincial riding of Chilliwack-Hope, where BC Liberal incumbent since ’96 Barry Penner had stepped down, triggering a by-election.
Now, that race wouldn’t have been important, given that the NDP have never even come close to winning the riding or its predecessors, except for this whole vote-splitting worry between the BC Liberals and the BC Conservatives, that could possibly through the by-election to the NDP.
And as I explained in that post, it seemed to me there was a greater chance of the BC Cons winning
. . . → Read More: Blunt Objects: More By-Election Talk: Port Moody-Coquitlam
By Jymn, on February 2, 2012, at 7:34 am This is good news for BC and for progressives. With Christy Clark shifting ever rightwards, the rise of Adrian Dix in the minds of BC residents is heartening.
VICTORIA — Premier Christy Clark suffered a significant blow in public opinion Wednesday, falling for the first time behind NDP leader Adrian Dix as people’s top choice for premier.
The poll, conducted by Angus Reid Public Opinion,
By Volkov, on February 1, 2012, at 6:15 pm As this Globe and Mail article points out (with a few inaccuracies, like 28% being the “lowest” poll number for the BC Liberals since Clark took office – that’s actually 23%), this Angus Reid poll isn’t good news for Premier Clark, who is now not only facing a vote split with the BC Conservatives lead by former MP John Cummins, but also the fact that NDP leader Adrian Dix now outpaces her on the “best Premier” question, and other approval/disapproval indicators.
Topline numbers, as said, are:
42% BC NDP28% BC Liberal19% BC Conservative10% Green In terms of
. . . → Read More: Blunt Objects: Angus Reid Poll of BC: 42-28-19
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The Canadian Progressive: BC NDP candidate resigns over racist comments against First Nations
By: Obert Madondo | The Canadian Progressive: Dayleen Van Ryswyk, the BC NDP candidate for Kelowna-Mission, has resigned after the racist comments she made online against Canada’s First Nations surfaced earlier today. She also denigrated French Canadians. Called them bigots. This sad episode will not slow down the New Democrats‘ march to a [...]
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