Elizabeth MayGood Sunday Morning! Apologies that this letter is not from your regular and much-loved correspondent, but from a poor substitute husband. Elizabeth is not feeling well today, Canada…
Good Sunday Morning! This Sunday finds me in Toronto for the Annual Pride Parade. I have not walked in the Toronto one for a while, not since I…
Good Sunday Morning! June 18th and the fourth anniversary of the Parliamentary motion that we are in a climate emergency. Reminiscent of Greta Thunberg’s great line that “then our leaders…
Good Sunday Morning! And thanks to everyone who sent me a birthday greeting on Friday, as I am now well launched into my 70th year. The POLITICO Ottawa…
Good Sunday Morning! Please forgive me as I realize this letter is way longer than usual. No June 4th can go by ever again that I do not think…
Rumours are running at a high pitch that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is likely to call five by-elections today. The following electoral districts currently do not have any…
Last weekend I stayed in Ontario for a Green Party retreat – first face-to-face meeting since November 2019. What a joy to meet each other in three dimensions…
Good Sunday Morning! And welcome to May 1st Monday morning. Tuesday will mark twelve years since the Greens in Canada elected our first Member of Parliament, leading to…
And what a week that was. Monday started with the release of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. This was the Synthesis report to summarize…
Good Sunday Morning from Moncton! Later today I will board one of my favourite VIA trains, The Ocean, for the overnight trip back to Ottawa. I got quite…
This is the start of another break week in Parliament. I am grabbing it for a chance to visit Maritime Greens. Continuing last week’s series of lucky coincidences, I…
Good Sunday Morning! This morning finds me back in Ottawa after a terrific visit with Manitoba Greens. On Thursday, we had the huge honour of being invited by…
Good Sunday Morning! As promised, I have been digging into the fascinating review of the events of January and February 2022 and the convoy protests. I know there…
Good Sunday Morning – Issue #150! And happy three-day weekend for Family Day! Hooray! I am finally home in Sidney for awhile. Parliament is on a two-week break and I…
Good Sunday Morning! I want to start with some good news. I wish this good news were thanks to swift government action, but no. This good news is…
It hardly seems possible that I have only been back in parliament for five days – I could easily be convinced it was a month. Every day we faced a gauntlet.…
This morning finds me back in the Ottawa apartment I have had since becoming a Member of Parliament nearly twelve years ago. I have not been here at…
I love language and digging into the origins of words. I realized during a zoom meeting the other day that some of the words I think of as…
And somehow, we are half-way through January! For the last week, I have been on one of my seasonal rounds of non-partisan MP Community Meetings. In the last…
With New Year’s Resolutions still in the air, I really loved this article about Finland. For five years in a row, Finland has been ranked the happiest country in…
Good Sunday Morning and a very Happy New Year! Rabbits! Are you in a family where there is the custom of saying “Rabbits” as the first words on…
Good Sunday Morning! I’ll start with a question for people old enough to remember watching the “Ed Sullivan Show.” Does anyone remember the guy who balanced china plates…
Good Sunday Morning! It has been so lovely to be home this weekend. Hope to see some of you at this evening’s Sidney Santa parade – Sidney Sparkles. Then back…
Good Sunday Morning! It does feel like happy days. As newly elected leader of the Green Party of Canada, I had a great week. Here’s a quick update.…
And a good last Sunday morning of July! Off to the Vancouver Pride Parade today. One of my favourites, although nothing is as organically connected to place as…