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    The Women’s Coalition - It's Good to Dream

    Blog | Friday, 06 Mar 2015
    (OTTAWA) - I could claim “last night I had the strangest dream...”.  It had to do with International Womens’ Day. And suddenly the male leadership decided it had really made too big a mess of things...

    Dear Bitumen - Breaking up with Fossil Fuels

    Blog | Friday, 13 Feb 2015
    Dear Bitumen, I must be blunt – I don’t know what we ever saw in you. You seemed popular, like all of the countries wanted to be with you. We thought maybe your exports could support us financially....

    Harper’s police state law

    Blog | Sunday, 08 Feb 2015
    (OTTAWA) - ​ I remember the events of October 22. While I was in lock-down on Parliament Hill, I remember who hid in a closet and who ran toward gun fire. The guy in the closet is now planning to...

    Writer didn’t ask me; Others did

    Blog | Friday, 09 Jan 2015
    (CHARLOTTETOWN) - A Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal letter to the editor from December 3 stated that “Hyer did not consult his constituents” regarding my vote on the decision to commit Canadian fighter...

    The COP that would not die...

    Blog | Friday, 12 Dec 2014
    (LIMA) -Okay, I know that sounds like a Bruce Willis movie and my apologies... but this COP has achieved that dreamlike-nightmarish quality that obscures what day it is, what time it is.  So...

    Fanfare and backrooms

    Blog | Thursday, 11 Dec 2014
    (LIMA) - As the available hours for negotiations wind down, we have entered the usual phase at such negotiations of high-level speeches extolling negotiators to finish the work and deliver on our...

    Climate march in Lima and fresh ideas in talks

    Blog | Thursday, 11 Dec 2014
    (OTTAWA) - The COP20 talks are taking place in an unlikely venue  - a military base outside of town.  Despite the reporting of its carbon footprint, being built from scratch to accommodate ten...

    Canada’s Dismal Presence in Lima at COP20

    Blog | Tuesday, 09 Dec 2014
    Leona Aglukkaq has been in Lima at COP20 arriving on the same flight I took to Peru. She was in first class so I didn’t see her, but I was reliably informed by a friend in the front cabin that she...