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    Holiday Productive and Enlightening

    Blog | Thursday, 16 Jan 2014
    THUNDER BAY – Federal Politics - My so-called holiday this year was a productive and enlightening one, which brought me across Canada and around the world with my family and on parliamentary business...

    That was the year that was…2013’s highs and lows

    Blog | Tuesday, 31 Dec 2013
    I have been over the last few days, like most Canadians, getting the deluge of retrospectives on 2013. Rob Ford’s name looms large in these reviews, along with Duffy and Wallin, Senate expenses and...

    Hyer to Taiwan

    Blog | Sunday, 29 Dec 2013
    I am arising on my first morning in Taipei, Taiwan. On December 22, Margaret and I drove to Armstrong to catch VIA rail, which was supposed to depart toward our Vancouver destination at 9 pm. We...

    Double The Green Caucus for 2014

    Blog | Friday, 13 Dec 2013
    As 2013 winds to a close, I have good news to share of a doubled caucus!  Independent MP Bruce Hyer (MP for Thunder Bay-Superior north) has taken out a membership in the Green Party of Canada and...

    The panda in the room

    Blog | Thursday, 28 Nov 2013
    It has been more than a year since the Harper government cabinet was in a legal position to ratify the Canada-China investment treaty. Thank goodness that step has not yet been taken. It is the...

    Warsaw COP19 – Daily Blog – Is this the worst COP ever?

    Blog | Thursday, 21 Nov 2013
    Well, that’s not quite a fair question.  Copenhagen, COP15, will, hopefully for all time, represent the low point in the effort to achieve meaningful action to avert disaster, but for in-between COPs...

    Warsaw COP19 – Daily Blog – Time is running out.

    Blog | Wednesday, 20 Nov 2013
    I thought the working session I was in last night had run late – after midnight. But in turns out, that was an early COP evening. The buzz in the morning was that the group working on “loss and...