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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…

Rumours are running at a high pitch that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is likely to call five by-elections today.  The following electoral districts currently do not have any…

Last weekend I stayed in Ontario for a Green Party retreat – first face-to-face meeting since November 2019. What a joy to meet each other in three dimensions…

Good Sunday Morning! And welcome to May 1st Monday morning. Tuesday will mark twelve years since the Greens in Canada elected our first Member of Parliament, leading to…

And what a week that was. Monday started with the release of the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report. This was the Synthesis report to summarize…

Good Sunday Morning from Moncton! Later today I will board one of my favourite VIA trains, The Ocean, for the overnight trip back to Ottawa. I got quite…

This is the start of another break week in Parliament. I am grabbing it for a chance to visit Maritime Greens.  Continuing last week’s series of lucky coincidences, I…

Good Sunday Morning! This morning finds me back in Ottawa after a terrific visit with Manitoba Greens. On Thursday, we had the huge honour of being invited by…

Good Sunday Morning! As promised, I have been digging into the fascinating review of the events of January and February 2022 and the convoy protests. I know there…

Good Sunday Morning – Issue #150!  And happy three-day weekend for Family Day!  Hooray! I am finally home in Sidney for awhile.  Parliament is on a two-week break and I…

Good Sunday Morning! I want to start with some good news. I wish this good news were thanks to swift government action, but no. This good news is…

It hardly seems possible that I have only been back in parliament for five days – I could easily be convinced it was a month. Every day we faced a gauntlet.…

This morning finds me back in the Ottawa apartment I have had since becoming a Member of Parliament nearly twelve years ago. I have not been here at…

I love language and digging into the origins of words. I realized during a zoom meeting the other day that some of the words I think of as…