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Good Sunday Morning, I just spent the last few days in Kitchener closing in on the final push of campaigning for Green candidate Aislinn Clancy. Four days to…

Good Sunday Morning! It has been another dreadful grief-stricken week of the ongoing tragedy and horrors of the war between Israel and Hamas, but we have to continue…

Good Sunday Morning! I am very happy to report that I was able to fly to Ottawa and back home this week in time for yesterday’s moving Ceremony…

Good Sunday Morning! Not sure how many of you have a British background, but to those who do, Happy Guy Fawkes Day! My father, transplanted to North America…

Good Sunday Morning! As I had hoped last Sunday, there is some good news this morning, but no doubt we have all been tossing and turning and praying…

Good Sunday Morning! If you live here in Saanich Gulf Islands (SGI), I hope you are planning to come to our SGI Greens Annual General Meeting this afternoon…

Good Sunday Morning! This has been a week of horrors and grief.  There are no words. The attacks on innocent civilians by Hamas, regardless of detail, are war crimes, but…

Good Sunday Morning! And Happy Thanksgiving! It is my daily practice to count my blessings. Best lesson ever from The Tao according to Pooh: “Do you really want…

Good Sunday Morning! So much has happened in the last seven days, I do not know where to start. Let me start at the end. Tune in to…

Good Sunday Morning! And let me start with the REALLY good news!! Thanks to the actions of thousands of concerned citizens, grassroots protests in Ontario and across Canada,…

Good Sunday Morning! I had such a great day yesterday at the End Fossil Fuels march in Vancouver. We had a strong turn out. I love a good…

First a correction to last week’s letter- thanks to Ian Cameron: My letter said the Saanich fair has been held in the same location since 1868. Ian gently…

Good Sunday Morning and Happy Labour Day weekend! I am so very happy to report that I am finally home in Sidney! Yesterday was a great opening of…

Good Sunday Morning, This Sunday finds John and me on an unexpected adventure. I am getting used to the unexpected – from June 29th and an unexpected stroke…

Good Sunday Morning, My good news is that I have completed my Ottawa tasks without doing myself any damage!  John and I head towards BC on Wednesday morning…

Good Sunday Morning! My letter reaches you as John and I make our way towards Ottawa on VIA Rail. The Canadian, cross-country train left Vancouver Central Station on…

Good Sunday Morning on the August Long Weekend! It is hard to write the words “Good Sunday Morning” on a day forever shrouded in grief and mourning –…

Good Sunday Morning! On the last July Sunday, I am still following doctor’s orders to do as little as possible. No doubt you have seen the news from…

Good Sunday Morning! News from me is blessedly boring. I continue to rest. John is carefully monitoring my blood pressure and I am proving to be a very…

Good Sunday Morning, This letter is all about gratitude. Thanks to all at Shoreline Medical and the Saanich Peninsula Hospital. Even without a family doctor and with all…

Good Sunday Morning! Elizabeth was undone last week from sheer overwork, fatigue and stress. She has spent a few days under observation at our wonderful local Saanich Peninsula…

Good 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…