Monthly Archives: February 2020

Patience… in short supply (Feb. 23, 2020)

[Written by Elizabeth May. To receive current blog posts by email, as soon as they are published, you can subscribe here.]

Good Sunday Morning!

I just spent some time in jail..

Along with friends and colleagues Jody Wilson-Raybould, and Senator Pao Woo and Senator Kim Pate, on Friday morning I visited the William Head prison outside Victoria. In the evening, we toured a hell-hole of a detention centre in the basement of the Vancouver airport. It has served for decades as the “temporary” facility for people on their way out of Canada under deportation orders. It is about to be closed and replaced with a much more humane facility to open soon in Surrey. Continue reading Patience… in short supply (Feb. 23, 2020)

Support for Wet’suwet’en (Feb. 16, 2020)

[Written by Elizabeth May. To receive current blog posts by email, as soon as they are published, you can subscribe here.]

Good Sunday Morning!

This weekend of Valentine’s Day is also a time marking Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. This year is the thirtieth annual series of events and marches. Continue reading Support for Wet’suwet’en (Feb. 16, 2020)

The new NAFTA (Feb. 2, 2020)

[Written by Elizabeth May]

Good Sunday Morning!

Happy Groundhog Day — which for me now conjures the Bill Murray movie of that name. I half expected to wake up to Sonny and Cher “I’ve got you babe.” (Apologies if any of you have never seen the movie….and the movie’s premise of a day that repeats itself endlessly until it comes out right.) Continue reading The new NAFTA (Feb. 2, 2020)