Elizabeth MayHappy Thanksgiving to all on this long weekend. Giving thanks. We pause to acknowledge the fraught history of this day and its associations with colonialism, conquest and oppression.…
First the things to celebrate! Courts!! Justice!! So unusual to celebrate… My early legal fight to stop the spraying of Agent Orange led to my sainted mother, at…
Tomorrow, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release its most comprehensive review of the physical evidence of global warming since 2013. While I have not heard…
And it is August. I still feel that sense of COVID-blur… Where did 2020 go? What happened to July? Today is a real landmark day for Canada. It…
Having left you last Sunday with news of wildfires around John’s farm in Ashcroft, I will start with the update. He is home safe, but it was scary…
All I can think of this morning is the climate emergency. Tomorrow morning, John will take the earliest ferry to head to his farm in Ashcroft – now…
Good Sunday Morning! This was a week for breaking through glass (and less fragile) ceilings for Indigenous women. Inuk leader Mary Simon will be our next Governor General.…
A good morning wish on the famous flag-waving Fourth of July for our neighbours to the south. Another nation born of theft of indigenous lands, the Doctrine of…
We are in a climate emergency and it really hits home. Home. As in my husband’s home of longstanding – his farm in Ashcroft, B.C. Ashcroft is in…
I’m Cate, Elizabeth’s daughter, excited to have an opportunity to write my mom’s usual column this Sunday. She is out of commission for a couple weeks, because she…
As all of you know, this has been a very hard week for the Green Party of Canada. I cannot remember a worse moment for us. But it…
My head is in so many places all at once. I know some regular readers will want updates on Fairy Creek, but I am still in the midst…
The last Sunday in May. Let’s hope that we are entering a month with more opportunities to see each other – safely. I still worry that the risks…
Good Sunday Morning! And so excellent to be looking forward to good Monday holiday morning! Happy Birthday to Queen Victoria, whose birthday May 24th gave us this holiday weekend…
Good Sunday morning! On this lovely sunny Sunday, my thoughts and emotions are wrapped up in the dangerously escalating events in Israel and Palestine. Twice this week Paul…
Happy Mother’s Day!! To our mothers, to our Mother Earth. I have been looking on line for quotes about Mother Earth. What turns up the most are references…
Happy May Day +1 And for me a day of memories of our big win ten years ago today. I was sorting through photos of election night. My…
Good Sunday Morning! And heading into the last week of April 2021, our first month lived twice in COVID. Sadly, not our last. I am looking forward to…
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…