Good Sunday Morning – April 18
Earth Day (April 18, 2021) The race between vaccines and variants is much on my mind. Family members have COVID and a dear friend died of COVID this…
Earth Day (April 18, 2021) The race between vaccines and variants is much on my mind. Family members have COVID and a dear friend died of COVID this…
Today marks the end of Holocaust Remembrance Week (April 4-11, 2021). In Ottawa, every year after my election in 2011, I attended the very moving National Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony…
Good Sunday Morning!! Happy last day of Passover! Chag Pesach Sameach! Happy Easter! Hallelujah! And – believe it or not – Happy International Carrot Day! Give your Easter…
Happy last day of Passover! Chag Pesach Sameach! Happy Easter! Hallelujah! And – believe it or not – Happy International Carrot Day! Give your Easter bunny a carrot.…
And Happy Spring! The equinox actually happened yesterday morning around 5 AM Eastern time. But March 21st always feels like the right day for the first day of Spring!…
My whole last week was intense work in parliament – on zoom. So, I thought I would share some of the week’s highs and low points. Monday was…
Good Sunday Morning! Tomorrow is both Commonwealth Day and International Women’s Day – as well as the birthday of two dear friends – so a shout out to…
Not outraged Good Sunday Morning! And ushering in March tomorrow – marking a full year of pandemic. My husband remarked the other morning as our dog Xo came…
As I wrote in last Sunday’s missive I would, I made a pitch to the Speaker on Monday to ensure fairness in Question Period. I asked him to…
Good Sunday Morning! And a very Happy Valentine’s Day! Here on Vancouver Island, we had an uncommonly large snowfall yesterday after a deep chill from the Polar Vortex…
Good Sunday Morning! Let’s start with some good news. The fantastic climate campaigners at University of Victoria scored a major win on February 2nd . Divest UVic and the UVSS…
Good Sunday Morning! And the last day of January. This last week was our first back in parliamentary work. It was a relief when the rules to allow…
And Happy Robbie Burns Day for those who celebrate! Apologies to my brother in Cape Breton who decries the veneration of a lowland Scot who spoke no Gaelic!…
While waiting for election results Good Sunday Morning! As loyal readers, you likely know by now that I write GSM on Saturday. And I usually try to be…
Elections galore! (October 18, 2020) Good Sunday Morning! Election count-downs galore – Six days until voting is done in British Columbia and Saskatchewan! Eight days until the two…
Passing the torch Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you are finding ways to be thankful in a time of COVID, when gatherings are not possible. I write this feeling…
GPC makes history! Last night was quite the night for the Green Party of Canada. Live national coverage and a suspenseful run to the finish from an amazing slate…
And we’re off!!! To three important campaigns… In BC to ensure the election of a lot more Green MLA’s on October 24… In Toronto Centre, to support Green…
“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…