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    The Honourable Member

    Blog | Monday, 11 Jun 2007
    The terms for personages of achievement are called “honorifics.” I could go around calling my self “Dr. May” if I wanted, thanks to the great honour of three honourary doctorates. Ministers of the...

    Al Gore and me

    Blog | Friday, 01 Jun 2007
    I do not know Al Gore well. I idolized his father Senator Albert Gore, one of the first Senators to oppose the war in Vietnam. Coming from Tennessee that was really something. When I was eleven, I...

    What you miss by flying

    Blog | Thursday, 31 May 2007
    I am enjoying the third trip this month by rail between Nova Scotia and Ontario. I take the train to avoid carbon emissions from flying, but I also take the train because it is such an entirely...

    FIRE AND ICE

    Blog | Tuesday, 08 May 2007
    It is hard to explain climate science to those who don’t want to know. Yesterday in the House at Question Period, Liberal MP Scott Simms from Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor asked Fisheries...

    Surrealistic Days

    Blog | Tuesday, 24 Apr 2007
    Sorry it has been so long since I have written anything for the blog. Of course, I am writing all the time. I was particularly proud of the quick turn around on the analysis of the Harper...

    Letter from Some Supporters

    Blog | Sunday, 22 Apr 2007
    I recently received an email from one of our EDAs. I thought it was a great letter of encouragement, and wanted to share this with everyone. Dear Elizabeth May: We worked for your leadership run...

    Letter to Members

    Blog | Friday, 13 Apr 2007
    Dear member of the Green Party of Canada, Assuming our technology works, this message will reach you very close to the time that the Leader of the Liberal Party and I jointly hold a press...

    Why Central Nova?

    Blog | Friday, 06 Apr 2007
    It is the question of the moment. Everywhere I go, on web sites and blogs, I stand accused of doing something: (pick one) stupidegomaniacaldeludedcourageous, but still stupid, orselfish...

    Losing a friend

    Blog | Thursday, 29 Mar 2007
    Yesterday, I learned that a friend of mine, Ram Myers, had died the day before. It could hardly be said to be a shock, but I barely got through the day. (It is a bad sign as head of a political...

    Mr. Harper and Human Rights

    Blog | Friday, 23 Mar 2007
    As you know, I sit in Question Period every day I am in Ottawa. I have become somewhat inured to the rudeness, sniping, and debased debate parading as Parliamentary discourse. However, every now...