Trains, pipelines and disasters
Blog | Elizabeth May | Monday, 15 Jul 2013Every time I think of what happened in Lac-Mégantic, I have a hard time getting past the sense of total grief that a beautiful little town should have been victim of such a random, devastating and...
This session of parliament
Blog | Elizabeth May | Thursday, 04 Jul 2013The headlines covered some of what happened: scandals, Senate fraud, a $90,000 cheque from the prime minister’s chief of staff, Nigel Wright, (who quickly became the former chief of staff) to pay off...
Climate Jeopardy
Blog | Elizabeth May | Friday, 28 Jun 2013A. “Up a creek.’ Q. What is President Obama’s climate action plan and where does that leave Stephen Harper? I would have suggested the answer was “high and dry,” but given the increasing likelihood...
How Greens Vote in the EU Parliament
Blog | Elizabeth May | Friday, 28 Jun 2013My daughter Cate just graduated from Kings University in Halifax in May and has been interning in Brussels with a friend of mine, Catherine Greze, Green Party of France MEP in the European Parliament...
What I Would Change About Politics in Canada
Blog | Elizabeth May | Monday, 24 Jun 2013Democracy is, as Winston Churchill once quipped, the worst system of government, except all the others that have been tried. He also, less famously said, “The best argument against democracy is a...
Praising the Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Blog | Elizabeth May | Sunday, 23 Jun 2013I remain so grateful to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities for your leadership on issues of sustainability. Municipalities, large and small, rural and urban, represent a level of government...
The latest attempt to deny climate science
Blog | Elizabeth May | Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013In case you missed it, earlier this month an article appeared in a little known physics journal, rated by scientists as of ‘low influence,’ the International Journal of Modern Physics B. The article...
Time to Put the Pieces of the Puzzle in Place
Blog | Elizabeth May | Thursday, 06 Jun 2013If all the key pieces of Canada’s energy future – the climate crisis, a prosperous economy, labour issues, east-west connectivity, energy efficiency, technological innovation, federal-provincial...
10 Reasons Why Harper Isn't Really Canadian
Blog | Elizabeth May | Thursday, 06 Jun 2013In a Global interview with Laura Stone, I am quoted as saying that Stephen Harper is "not Canadian." Having lunch with a reporter on virtually no sleep is a high risk proposition, but I didn't say...
It just keeps getting worse—under-estimating the GHG impacts of bitumen
Blog | Elizabeth May | Thursday, 06 Jun 2013The news out of Detroit is pretty shocking. The only thing more shocking is that it is not making headlines in Canada. The New York Times has been reporting that a mountain of coke, waste from...
