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Blog | Friday, 06 Feb 2009I am grateful that we still have independent reporting on government activities. Yesterday we received the reports to Parliament from the Auditor General Sheila Fraser and the Environment...
Vision and the Commitment to a Green Economic Future
Blog | Tuesday, 27 Jan 2009That's the headline I would have liked. It certainly fits the economic numbers from this morning's Globe and Mail: $11 billion: spending to modernize the electricity grid and build power lines to...
What should be in the budget?
Blog | Sunday, 25 Jan 2009On Thursday, the Green Party released our proposals for a stimulus package, highlighting the importance of following Barack Obama’s lead in moving the North American economy to a green energy...
Happy Birthday Sir John A.!
Blog | Saturday, 10 Jan 2009January 11 is the birthday of Sir John A. Macdonald. Our first Prime Minister. Sir John A. Macdonald believed in Canada. He knew we had to build the links that allowed us to embrace from east...
Give “Mother Nature” a break
Blog | Tuesday, 30 Dec 2008Here’s a new campaign; let’s try to force a “connect” in the disconnect between news coverage of the clear and urgent science about the climate crisis and the inane coverage of weather news. ...
I knew I would never be on the Mike Duffy show again...
Blog | Monday, 22 Dec 2008Just in case you missed it, during the election campaign I decided I could not take the abuse and partisanship masquerading as journalism from Mike Duffy. Over the years, I have been on the Mike...
Yes We Can! goes Global
Blog | Friday, 12 Dec 2008I have been in Poznan Poland all week as the fourteenth Conference of the Parties (COP14) for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change drags on. The goal, and it is a deadline,...
Last day?
Blog | Friday, 12 Dec 2008The climate negotiations continue in earnest behind closed doors in smaller contact groups, while the Ministers make speeches in Plenary. It is supposed to be the last day, but it may spill into...
Canada continuing to sweep the “Fossil of the Day” Awards!
Blog | Tuesday, 09 Dec 2008Canada won again today, sharing a second place and first place Fossil of the Day Award. The mock gala ceremony takes place every evening at 6 pm at every Conference of the Parties to mark the most...
From depressing to REALLY depressing: from Ottawa to Poznan
Blog | Monday, 08 Dec 2008Poznan, Poland: I wish I could share better news. The atmosphere here at the 14th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and Fourth Meeting of the Parties of...