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The mouse that roared
Blog | Wednesday, 06 Jul 2011That little river in Manitoba that has kept a community on high-alert for flooding for the last three months played a big role in my life. I had loved my work in the office of the Minister of...
Filibusted
Blog | Tuesday, 28 Jun 2011I am finally home again, freed from what could be called “House arrest.” Originally, the Parliamentary calendar looked favourable for a Wednesday adjournment for St. Jean Baptiste Day. Instead, we...
That was the week that was….
Blog | Friday, 17 Jun 2011OK, week 2 in Parliament. Like week one, it was only four days long. Last week we adjourned early for the Conservative Convention. This week we adjourned early for the NDP Convention. So, I am...
A Week on the Hill
Blog | Friday, 10 Jun 2011The week was dominated by the little things. Finally getting into our office on Monday- after the vote for the Speaker on Thursday and the Speech from the Throne on Friday. Finding my seat in the...
The League of Green Nations
Blog | Tuesday, 31 May 2011It has indeed been a very long time since I wrote a blog – 30 days to be exact. My last posting was a call to vote Green on the eve of the May 2nd election. We all know what happened in that...
Election Day
Blog | Sunday, 01 May 2011This election has revolved around false attacks, fake anger and abuse of democracy. The government fell on a confidence vote due to contempt. The Prime Minister responded that he needed a majority...
Polling, Media and Where are the Greens?
Blog | Saturday, 23 Apr 2011I get a lot of people wondering about seeing Greens at 4%, or lower. It is hard for Canadians to know that those numbers are from polling companies that sometimes don't ask voters if they plan to...
Alberta
Blog | Tuesday, 19 Apr 2011The national leader's tour brought us to Calgary this morning. I must say I was surprised to hear that I was the first party leader to visit Calgary in this election campaign. Doubly surprising...
Small Business
Blog | Tuesday, 12 Apr 2011Greens would cut the EI and CPP costs to employees and employers by one third, replacing those funds with charges on pollution. We need to give small business a break. Tax cuts to corporations do...
On corporate tax cuts
Blog | Tuesday, 12 Apr 2011There goes the buzz word "job creators." Check out the empirical evidence. Corporate tax cuts do not create jobs. Canadian companies are increasingly head quartered in the US. We are just...