Good Sunday Morning – September 20
“Our house is on fire” (September 20. 2020) Good Sunday Morning! I keep hearing Greta Thunberg’s voice in my head: “Our house is on fire.” When I first…
“Our house is on fire” (September 20. 2020) Good Sunday Morning! I keep hearing Greta Thunberg’s voice in my head: “Our house is on fire.” When I first…
Good Sunday Morning! I hope it will be a happy Monday. Tomorrow New Brunswickers go to the polls. I spent some of this week phoning in to New…
Good Sunday Morning! Keeping track of our life in COVID, this week we enter our seventh month of pandemic. My first sharing of good news for the week…
Good Sunday Morning! And what a week it was. Major political assumptions were turned upside down – chief among them “nothing happens in politics in the dog days of…
Good Sunday Morning! So here’s a good one. An epidemiologist, a virologist and a pediatrician walked into a bar…. Just kidding. They are way too smart to walk into a…
75 years ago today, Canadian uranium from Saskatchewan loaded in a nuclear warhead detonated, destroying the Japanese city of Nagasaki. The radionuclides from that chain reaction continued to poison…
Good Sunday Morning! And August already! Let us celebrate August 1st – Emancipation Day! Marking the passing of the 1833 Slavery Abolition Act in the British Parliament. In…
Climate change with little coverage (July 26, 2020) Good Sunday Morning! Let me start with a mea culpa. I was brought up short last Sunday morning for forgetting to…
By my COVID timeline, we are just heading into week 19 of our new existence. News from south of the border makes us want to seal the border…
It’s not every day I get good news about a campaign I have been working on for decades. My family home in Cape Breton was on the shores…
Good Sunday Morning! This Sunday finds me finally out of the 14 day isolation from the last trip to Ottawa and on my way back. The House will…
Good Sunday Morning! Welcome to Summer! The Green Party leadership race is now well underway with ten candidates. The first debate was co-hosted by former Green leaders, Jim Harris and…
Happy Solstice! Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Happy Fathers’ Day!! Happy Longest Day of the Year! It is my first full day home after a long shift in Ottawa,…
Good Sunday Morning! We have hit the three months mark of living in pandemic land. I don’t know about you, but I am sick of it. But…
Let me begin with an apology. Last Sunday, I think many of you expected and needed for me to talk about the cold-blooded murder of George Floyd and…
Good Sunday Morning! Amazing. Tomorrow is June first; starting Week 13 in my own COVID timeline. Life in COVID-world is now assured to span four months…
Re-opening after COVID-19 Good Sunday Morning! Around the world, some countries inch toward re-opening, while others shutter. Globally, more than five million people have been diagnosed with COVID-19…
Good Sunday Morning! Amazingly enough, my time line for pandemic tells me this is week 11 in lock down. The days have blurred together, but with parliamentary committees…
Good Sunday Morning! And to all mothers reading this, Happy Mother’s Day! My Mother’s Day was made on Friday with a delivery call from the door of our…
Good Sunday Morning! This Sunday marks the beginning of my tenth year as the Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands. Thanks to many of you, I have been…
Good Sunday Morning! It has been a very hard week. My home province is reeling from the worst mass murder in Canadian history. Like most people from Pictou…
Good Sunday Morning! In the time line I set for myself of COVID-19 (March 9th being the first day), we are heading into Week 7 of pandemic…
Good Sunday Morning! Happy Easter! Happy Passover! Chag Pesach Sameach! On Good Friday, a day when I would normally shut off my email and phone, committing to quiet…
Good Sunday Morning And for those of you who observe Christian holidays, Happy Palm Sunday! It is hard to keep track of time. It is almost Passover. One…
A mixed week (March 29, 2020) Good Sunday Morning! And for one Sunday, I am trying to focus on things non-COVID19. (And apologies for this being longer than…