Elizabeth MayGood Sunday Morning! My week was dominated by completing work with Shadow Cabinet and Parliamentary Caucus on the Green Party submission to the Emission Reduction Plan required by…
Good Sunday Morning! It actually is beginning to feel like a New Year, but the walloping snow storms plus Omicron, school closures and lock-downs certainly blunt the usual…
Good Sunday Morning! And Happy New Year! (and please keep reading to the PS because you have a surprise gift in store!) In all our hearts, and at…
Good Sunday Morning! And counting down, six days until Christmas! I am still an eager Christmas Day believer. What do I believe in? Well, as a practicing (and…
I have been meaning to write a Sunday letter focused on adaptation to climate change for some time. For one thing, I promised one of our subscribers I…
Good Sunday Morning! And welcome to December. It strikes me forcibly that this is the second COVID December. Praying it will be the last. Mike Morrice and I…
Good Sunday Morning! It has been quite a week! We have a wonderful new interim leader. Thanks to Dr. Amita Kuttner for stepping up when we most need…
Good Sunday Morning! And thanks so much to John for filling in for me last Sunday. The all-day Saturday November 13 (until late evening) negotiations kept me quite…
Hello all. This is John Kidder, Elizabeth’s husband. Good Sunday morning from Glasgow. I begin with apologies for this sub-standard replacement – me in exchange for your regular correspondent. I am…
And greetings from Glasgow – which may be home of the kindest and friendliest people on the planet – and COP26 which is certainly the weirdest COP ever.…
Good Sunday Morning! And the 100th issue of this little newsletter since the SGI Greens revived it as a more personal letter from me. (and eternal thanks to Thomas…
Good Sunday Morning! So, let’s start with the good news. After six years of steady work in court battles and protests, the Mi’kmaw water protectors of the…
Forgive me that this missive starts with new dates that now establish some important bookends in my life. When I woke up Friday morning, I had been tossing…
Happy 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…