Good Sunday Morning!

Forgive me that this missive starts with new dates that now establish some important bookends in my life. Continue reading “Last Chance COP” (October 17, 2021) →

Good Sunday Morning!

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. I welcome it just the same. It is a three-day weekend focused on gratitude. Continue reading Focused on gratitude (October 10, 2021) →

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 that point still extant, to frequently say, “Judges should be taken out and beaten with chains.”  My mom’s book on the herbicide case was rejected by Farley Mowat’s dear friend Jack McClelland, famous Canadian publisher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_McClelland_(publisher) Continue reading An untenable situation (October 3, 2021) →

Good Sunday Morning!

The very happy news is that Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig are home in Canada. Damn the whole geo-political, Donald Trump manipulation and the kidnapping of innocent Canadians by the Peoples’ Republic of China. Lots more to unpack about this scandalous treatment of two of our fellow citizens caught in a web by the heartless and manipulative power brokers of the world. For now, thank God they are safe. Continue reading Hold to 1.5 degrees (September 26, 2021) →

Good Sunday Morning!

Two more days – today and Monday and Election 2021 is a wrap.

I am feeling positive about the energy on the ground here in Saanich-Gulf Islands and Nanaimo Ladysmith. And hoping we will elect other Green MPs as well. Right now our best prospects are for Mike Morrice in Kitchener Centre, Nicole O’Byrne in Fredericton, and my fingers are crossed for a few more in BC. And of course, Annamie Paul in Toronto Centre! Continue reading Our best prospects (September 19, 2021) →

Good Sunday Morning!

As if you didn’t know, one week to go with voting day next Monday, September 20.  With Advance Polls now, I know this reaches you on a day when you are heading out to vote. We are buoyed by Annamie’s excellent debate performance, heralded by journalists – Don Martin, Andrew Coyne and others as the winner! Continue reading Ashes (September 12, 2021) →

Good Sunday Morning!

I had a fantastic week on the lower mainland and interior helping a wonderful group of Green candidates. I promise I was careful in pandemic. Continue reading Green candidates (September 5, 2021) →

Good Sunday Morning!

And we are entering the third week of a very brief election campaign.  22 days to go! Continue reading Election in a pandemic (August 29, 2021) →

Good Sunday Morning!

It is hard to believe only seven days have elapsed since I wrote you with the almost certain knowledge the writ would drop that day.  Even with scaled back campaigning due to COVID, it has been a very busy week. Continue reading Week 1 of COVID election (August 22, 2021) →

Good Sunday Morning!

And we are off to the races… How appropriate that the metaphor is “off to the races.”  We still operate under the completely perverse First Past the Post (FPTP) voting system based on old rules for horses and jockeys. Of course, our telegenic prime minister famously promised that 2015 would be the last election under FPTP.  If only… If he had kept his promise, we would not be in another election.  If not for this anti-democratic voting system, the cynical Liberal backrooms would not be motivated to shed the fairer and more collaborative minority parliament for one where 39% of the vote delivers 100% of the power. Continue reading Off to the races (August 15, 2021) →