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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…

Good Sunday Morning! Today finds me packing up to leave Ashcroft after a few days off – nearly a week!  We got here Tuesday, with John’s son and family…

Good Sunday Morning! Sometimes people refer to the summer months as a “break” for parliamentarians. For most MP’s, we just keep working. This week I was busy getting…

Good Sunday Morning! It has been a rough patch for the world, as bombs drop in Ukraine, Japan’s former PM is assassinated, people are slaughtered in Tigray, while…

Good Sunday Morning! Good Sunday Morning! Welcome to July – 29 months to go for meaningful climate action to hold to 1.5 or 2 degrees. It has been…

And, thank heavens, Parliament has risen until September 19th.  Hope I will be seeing many of you at Victoria Pride this morning. One of my Conservative friends, an…

Good Sunday Morning! For the last time until September, Monday morning will find me in Parliament. We are likely to adjourn by next Friday. What a long haul…

Thirty years ago today I was at the Rio Earth Summit with my precious baby girl, not yet one year old. Now she is nearly 31. There is…

Good Sunday Morning! When I wrote last week’s letter, I mentioned storm warnings for Ottawa and high winds in Guelph. Clearly, as more reports came in, it became…

Good Sunday Morning!! Yesterday morning was a very good one as I woke up on Mayne Island to the fantastic results in Australia’s election. Greens had their best…

Good Sunday Morning! I start with some good news for a change. I have been supporting a wonderful group of folks in Nunavut objecting to a massive expansion…

Happy May Day!!! There are many meanings and connotations to the “May Day” greeting. Maybe I paid attention to collecting all the meanings since May Day is sort…

Good Sunday Morning! Hope everyone had a Happy Earth Day! Although it is hard to be exuberant when two stalwart defenders of old growth, Brent Eichler and Howard…