Holiday Productive and Enlightening
Blog | Bruce Hyer | Thursday, 16 Jan 2014THUNDER 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 | Elizabeth May | Tuesday, 31 Dec 2013I 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 | Bruce Hyer | Sunday, 29 Dec 2013I 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 | Elizabeth May | Friday, 13 Dec 2013As 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...
Why a green economic future is more robust, resilient than putting all our eggs in fossil fuel basket
Blog | Elizabeth May | Monday, 02 Dec 2013The problem is not that governments are not doing enough to fight global warming. It’s that governments, particularly the Harper administration, are actually in the way. The starting point in...
The panda in the room
Blog | Elizabeth May | Thursday, 28 Nov 2013It 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 – The COP that would not die ...
Blog | Elizabeth May | Saturday, 23 Nov 2013As I wrote my Friday blog Saturday morning from the Warsaw airport, it seems only right that my Saturday blog should be written on Sunday on VIA Rail as I complete the last leg of the (too) long trip...
Warsaw COP19 – Daily Blog – We are into serious over-time . . .
Blog | Elizabeth May | Friday, 22 Nov 2013I am writing this from the Warsaw airport in the wee hours of almost Saturday morning. I left the ADP interactive process after 3 AM when the co-chairs adjourned, sending the weary negotiators away...
Warsaw COP19 – Daily Blog – Is this the worst COP ever?
Blog | Elizabeth May | Thursday, 21 Nov 2013Well, 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 | Elizabeth May | Wednesday, 20 Nov 2013I 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...
