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The search for heroes
Blog | Thursday, 26 Jul 2012On Wednesday, June 13th, just after Question Period and before the tabling of amendments to the Omnibus Budget Bill C-38, a rally took place outside Parliament. The on-line advocacy group leadnow.com...
Canada still has no plan to address climate change
Blog | Monday, 16 Jul 2012There is no shortage of compelling issues to discuss in a Hill Times Environmental Policy briefing. Even listing, without describing, the catalogue of assaults on environmental law and policy by the...
Values that rub off
Blog | Wednesday, 11 Jul 2012Canada has two approaches when dealing with totalitarian regimes. If they have no money or inclination to invest, we are quick to condemn and to shut such nations out of the room (as in the case of...
Bev Oda deserves a defence
Blog | Tuesday, 03 Jul 2012Okay. Admittedly that may be the most unpopular title of a blog I have ever tapped out on my laptop.I can't and won’t explain or defend the $16 orange juice or the limo, but why people focus on that...
Why I love Canada
Blog | Sunday, 01 Jul 2012Why I love Canada. I love a country where the population in an open-ended popularity contest for the Greatest Canadian in History voted not for the greatest general or sexiest celebrity, but the man...
As Parliament Rises for the Summer…
Blog | Saturday, 23 Jun 2012The appalling 420 page so-called omnibus budget implementation bill, C-38, managed to get rubber stamped without a single change. All 700+ of the Opposition amendments were defeated after a...
The War of 1812 and the Surrender of 2012
Blog | Saturday, 02 Jun 2012It always struck me as a bit odd, from when I first heard it heralded in the 2011 Speech from the Throne, that Canada was to have a major celebration for the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812. It...
Killing Environmental Science
Blog | Friday, 01 Jun 2012There has been no announcement of the devastating decision to stop studying the natural world, but the evidence is piling up that such a decision has been taken. It is no secret that Stephen Harper...
Theatre of the Absurd
Blog | Wednesday, 16 May 2012Last night in the House, there was a Committee of the Whole until 1:30am. On the option of the NDP, two departments of government can be submitted to examination of the main estimates (or the...
Clarifiying the deliberately confusing Bill C-38
Blog | Wednesday, 09 May 2012As a long-time environmental lawyer who has watched, and, in some cases, played a role in the development of Canada's environmental laws, I am devastated at the cynical, manipulative, and...