Pipelines to the east?
Blog | Elizabeth May | Wednesday, 24 Apr 2013As the pro-bitumen export crowd notices the gathering storm clouds over their Northern Gateway and Kinder-Morgan options, and, further south, sees long shadows falling over the Keystone XL pipeline...
Reality check on Transport Canada’s claims for tanker safety
Blog | Elizabeth May | Sunday, 14 Apr 2013Harper’s public relations and spin team hit Vancouver in March claiming to have substantially revamped environmental protections for pipelines and tankers. Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver...
What Does Joe Oliver Know About Science? Not Much
Blog | Elizabeth May | Friday, 12 Apr 2013Imagine you have this avuncular Uncle Joe. He doesn’t read much about climate science, but he looks at the websites that tell you the whole thing is overblown and there’s really no risk. It would...
Canada Goes Rogue
Blog | Elizabeth May | Wednesday, 10 Apr 2013I am frequently asked how I maintain a positive attitude when confronted by Stephen Harper’s destructive agenda—dismembering our environmental laws and policies. Honestly, I can respond that most...
Greens do politics differently (But not in the way that Rex Murphy thinks)
Blog | Elizabeth May | Thursday, 04 Apr 2013In his Saturday National Post column, Rex Murphy claimed that Canada’s Green party has no goal other than to get me elected as an MP — and that this has been the case for “two or three general...
My Critics Favour "Truthiness" Over Fact
Blog | Elizabeth May | Wednesday, 03 Apr 2013I don't know Mr. McCullough, but in reviewing his blogs he seems to have embraced the weary cynic style of punditry. The strange attack on me as a pointless entity, "The Stonehenge of Canadian...
My Critics Favour “Truthiness” Over Fact
Blog | Elizabeth May | Monday, 01 Apr 2013I don’t know Mr. McCullough, but in reviewing his blogs he seems to have embraced the weary cynic style of punditry. The strange attack on me as a pointless entity, “The Stonehenge of Canadian...
Green strategy puts the public interest ahead of partisanship
Blog | Elizabeth May | Monday, 01 Apr 2013I am happy to have a chance to answer the question posed by Gerry Nicholls’ March 29 opinion piece, Why Doesn’t Elizabeth May Just Join the Liberals? I am a member of the Green party because it is...
I Stand Behind My Tweet Comparing Canada To North Korea
Blog | Elizabeth May | Thursday, 28 Mar 2013This is a larger, more esoteric blog than merely defending my use of North Korea and Canada in the same sentence. But, okay, I am also defending my use of North Korea and Canada in the same sentence...
New and Improved Oil Spills!
Blog | Elizabeth May | Thursday, 28 Mar 2013Harper’s public relations and spin team hit Vancouver last week to unveil their super-duper enviro-protection plan for pipelines and tankers. Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver and Minister of...
