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    What should be in the budget?

    Blog | Sunday, 25 Jan 2009
    On 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 2009
    January 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 2008
    Here’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 2008
    Just 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 2008
    I 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 2008
    The 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...

    Fixing what’s broken

    Blog | Saturday, 06 Dec 2008
    After the shutting down of Parliament and before leaving for the UN climate conference in Poland, I had to perform important emergency surgery. I had to fix the papiere mache donkey my mother had...

    “It’s the Economy, Stupid”

    Blog | Thursday, 04 Dec 2008
    I have never liked that emblematic slogan of the Clinton War Room. I have a visceral dislike for calling anyone "stupid." (No doubt something to do with having a mother who believed in lady-like...