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Climate Change bill defeated without debate in the Senate
Blog | Wednesday, 17 Nov 2010I am currently in a sustainable communities conference in Kelowna and unable to express outrage in my own words at what just happened. Please read this release from Senator Grant Mitchell's office (...
Prosperity
Blog | Friday, 12 Nov 2010On Tuesday, Adriane Carr and I made a visit to our wonderful candidate in Prince George-Cariboo, Heidi Redl. We had planned it for some time (and on to Prince George the next day with our other...
Let’s speak out now to shut down attack ads
Blog | Sunday, 31 Oct 2010If you have any access to US television stations, you have probably been using the mute button a lot lately. As the US voters prepare to go to the polls, the airwaves are...
Harper’s new crack down on smugglers
Blog | Friday, 22 Oct 2010It is all in the framing. The crack down is described as a way to deal with “human smugglers.” The image conjured is of boat-loads of potential terrorists who may land on our shores.What if you...
There’s not enough maple syrup in the world…
Blog | Tuesday, 12 Oct 2010It was reported on CBC this morning that in a last ditch effort to win over votes for a seat on the U.N. Security Council, Canadian diplomats were giving out maple-leaf shaped bottles of maple syrup...
Is it just me, or is it hot in here?
Blog | Thursday, 07 Oct 2010I keep feeling as though the barrier between Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novels and the evening news has begun to melt. Like the news story on CBC this week about how whole giant mammoths are...
Wade Davis supports Greens; Greens support his effort to protect the Sacred Headwaters
Blog | Tuesday, 28 Sep 2010On Saturday night in Vancouver, the Green Party received an overwhelming and ringing endorsement from anthropologist Wade Davis. In 2009, Wade Davis delivered the prestigious Massey lectures. Wade's...
Flaherty previews election
Blog | Wednesday, 22 Sep 2010On Monday, I woke up to Jim Flaherty's voice. Sunday night, I took the red eye from BC to Toronto, and after not sleeping a wink, raced to downtown Union Station and got the 6:50 am train to Ottawa...
Australia's Greens
Blog | Friday, 10 Sep 2010With the exciting news out of Australia, you would think the Australian Green Party would be taken seriously. Amazingly, CBC's The National with Peter Mansbridge, reported that Julia Gillard had...
Alberta as Energy “Super Power”
Blog | Monday, 30 Aug 2010An item in the Victoria Times Colonist caught my attention the other day -- “It’s booze, gambling that powers Alberta.” Amazing that with all the alleged oil wealth that drives the...