Elizabeth MayGreen Party of Canada Leader Elizabeth May and Deputy Leader Adriane Carr are in Ottawa today to push for a legislated ban on crude oil tankers along BC’s…
Right Honourable Stephen Harper Prime Minister of Canada Office of the Prime Minister 80 Wellington Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0A2 November 10, 2011 Dear Prime Minister, We write…
Environment Minister Peter Kent today promised that Canada would have no part in the second phase of Kyoto, despite repeated and urgent calls from the world’s scientists for developed…
Ms. Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, I am pursuing a question I asked the Minister of the Environment some time ago to which I received a response from the…
In reading this heading, ‘The mystery of the muzzled scientists,’ I wonder how many readers would be put in mind of the game Clue—‘Colonel Mustard in the library…
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of the Environment to continuously try to unravel the muzzling of government scientists. I accept that the minister…
Today, in response to the report of the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, Elizabeth May, Green Party Leader and Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands, slammed…
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, I rise at this point in our adjournment procedures to pursue a question that I initially asked the hon. Minister of the Environment on…
Hello citizens, I’m reporting in after the first five days of the fall parliamentary calendar, finally posting this blog Monday morning. Our proceedings were dominated by two pieces…
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, my question is to the Minister of the Environment. Years ago, it was my great privilege to be part of the Canadian negotiating team…
As the high profile Keystone Pipeline controversy shifts from Washington to Ottawa, the Green Party of Canada stands in solidarity with the many courageous people who have sought…
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate our wonderful pages on their beautiful voices and thank them for that incredible moment. I am rising today to…
Elizabeth May: Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of the Environment and concerns oil and gas exploration. I certainly agree with hon. members of the official…
Essentially, the bill would establish a strong plan with firm science-based targets that would address the dangerous climate change resulting from unchecked greenhouse emissions and help improve our…
We must protect British Columbia’s rugged northern coastline and coastal waters, the diversity of fish species and mammals, and the coastal communities that depend on a healthy fishing…
It was a nice way to end a year peppered with disappointments. In my last column for 2010, appearing on December 9, I wrote about the inspiring work…
From December 7–18 in Copenhagen, Denmark, the United Nations will be holding the most significant climate negotiation since 1992 when the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)…
For the first time in the history of the United Nations, the member nations of the world community did not support Canada’s bid to be on the Security…
It is axiomatic that a new technology is introduced to the media and the public by those who have developed it. And, that they are the very people…
It seems a lot longer than a year ago that I wrote my first column in Island Tides, ‘From cod to salmon: when do we ever learn?’ Last…
The latest flashpoint in the long-standing conflict over the loss of Canadian corporations to foreign buyers is over potash. Potash is the stuff from which industrial fertilizers are…
Salt Spring Island’s climate hero, Dorothy Cutting, gave me Bill McKibben’s new book “Eaarth,” and I set it aside to read on my cross country train trip. Crossing…
The somewhat informal, but institutionalized annual meetings of the G-8 have been held in Canada only four times over the last three decades. Starting in the late 1970s,…
Remember the US Republican Convention in 2008? Ecstatic delegates chanted ‘Drill! Baby, Drill!’, led by a euphoric Sarah Palin; she of Alaska who yearns to destroy the calving…
On April 7, the Council of Canadians Victoria Chapter hosted an event focussing on Politics, International Trade Deals and Climate. The panel for this topic was a wonderful…