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The Inter-generational Party
Blog | Wednesday, 25 Aug 2010When people ask me the ways in which the Greens are different from the old line parties, I usually point out that we are consistently concerned with the long term issues -- that we think about the...
Time for a leadership race?
Blog | Sunday, 08 Aug 2010A great deal is on the blogs on the Green Party site and elsewhere that presumes a few things about current leadership questions.I have been trying to stay out of the discussion of leadership issues...
Stephen Schneider
Blog | Saturday, 24 Jul 2010One of the world's leading climate scientists has died. I knew him and respected his work and his commitment enormously. Stephen Schneider did his work from Colorado but is perhaps best known for...
Budget bill passed
Blog | Friday, 16 Jul 2010On July 6, I testified before the one legislative body that paused to examine the budget bill, the Senate Finance Committee. In a series of rushed hearings, the Senators heard about the changes...
The Jobs and Economic Growth Act
Blog | Tuesday, 06 Jul 2010Yup, that’s what they are calling Bill C-9, The Budget Implementation Act. I testified before the Senate Finance Committee this morning about drastic changes to the Canadian Environmental...
Prentice’s climate announcements
Blog | Wednesday, 23 Jun 2010On the evening of the G8-G20 Summits, the Harper government has discovered that, as host, it cannot completely control the agenda. While the government convened face-to-face preliminary meetings for...
Parliamentarian of the Year
Blog | Saturday, 05 Jun 2010The Macleans award of Parliamentarian of the Year to John Baird has done more than raise eyebrows. It has caused widespread incredulity. So what happened? Ottawa scuttlebutt is that the vote was...
When is a moratorium not a moratorium?
Blog | Thursday, 03 Jun 2010June 2nd’s Times Colonist broke the news that Enbridge claims both the federal and BC government have assured them that “there is no legislated moratorium on oil tankers entering BC ports.” Enbridge...
That Canadian journalist wounded in Thailand
Blog | Wednesday, 26 May 2010That’s what passes the newswires in the rest of Canada. The injury is mentioned. Nationality. Little in the way of details. Here in southern Vancouver Island where Chandler Vandergrift was studying...
Spill! Baby, Spill
Blog | Thursday, 13 May 2010I mistakenly thought I had mused about the potential for Sarah Palin experiencing guilt in a recent blog. In fact, I had written that for a local, and quite terrific, paper called "Island Tides." ...