Elizabeth MayElizabeth May From June 6-8, 2017, I attended the United Nations for the special High-Level United Nations Oceans Conference. Without a doubt, it sparked the greatest global focus…
Elizabeth May April 27, 2017 This article originally appeared in Island Tides (April 27, 2017). Another promise about to be broken? Will Liberals restore the protections of Canada’s navigable waters?…
Elizabeth May, M.P. for Saanich-Gulf Islands, Leader of the Green Party of Canada April 2017 I try to avoid any partisan tinge to my columns in Island Tides,…
What’s in the 2017 budget? By Elizabeth May, Member of Parliament for Saanich-Gulf Islands, Leader of the Green Party of Canada On March 22, Finance Minister Bill Morneau…
Fake News, propaganda and motion 103 by Elizabeth May March 2, 2017 We are in a post-truth era. President Trump denounces journalists as “enemies of the people” and…
Dissecting the Prime Minister’s excuses for ditching his promise of fair voting February 16, 2017 Elizabeth May I t was a massive blow to my faith in Trudeau’s…
The Trump inaugural address and the lies it told January 24, 2017 Elizabeth May MP The web of lies in the narrative spun in 16 minutes by President…
What trains show us by Elizabeth May, M.P. When people were shocked Trump won the US election, I wasn’t as surprised as most. And when people asked me…
The Liberal government led by Right Honourable Justin Trudeau was elected on October 19 and sworn in on November 4, last year. So, how is the current administration…
How corrupt is the environmental review process? Or how is it that DFO, CEAA and NRCan decided that Petronas LNG was not a threat to the Skeena Salmon?…
The following is an excerpt from my submission to the Supplemental panel on Kinder Morgan: The KM project has not been reviewed by any regulatory body or agency…
In another stunning development in pipeline politics on September 9th, the three person panel of National Energy Board Commissioners stepped down, recusing themselves from the Energy East pipeline…
The summer of 2016 was a record breaker. July was the hottest month ever recorded and 2016 is on track to be the hottest year ever recorded. The…
It is not an experience that I talk about. The other day I had cause to think about August 1968 for the first time in a long time. …
Over the last five years as a Member of Parliament, the month of June has typically been hellish. Under the Conservatives, it was typical to try to force…
As a result of the omnibus budget bill, C-38, of spring 2012, Canadian environmental assessment has been converted from a predictable, professional process to a dog’s breakfast of…
I don’t think I have ever had two Island Tides articles back to back that covered an evolving story. Parliament does not usually have the characteristics of a…
Political party partisanship showed up in an unexpectedly spectacular fashion on Wednesday, May 18, but began much earlier. Soon after the election, talking with a Liberal committee chair,…
In the last week of June 1988, there was a brutal heat wave holding a wilting Toronto in its grip. I was the senior policy advisor to the…
Knowing how many Island Tides readers are keen observers of the climate issue, as well as the impressive number of you who are climate activists, I wanted to…
The crisis in Attawapiskat has shaken Canadians from coast to coast. In fact, it led the news on BBC and the New York times. It is being described…
Analyzing the new Liberal budget for Canada is difficult. It is so deeply disappointing, yet compared to any budget in the last ten years it represents a huge…
British Columbians need to have a say on the provincial government’s commitment to link the province’s economic future to a very large bet on LNG. The total number…
It looked as though we had a chance to rid the world of the consistently perverse non-trade aspect of all new trade deals – the so-called “investor-state agreement.” …
The Liberal government has followed through on its campaign commitment to pull Canadian CF-18 fighter jets out of Iraq and Syria. Simultaneously, Prime Minister Trudeau announced that we…