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Warsaw COP19 – Daily Blog – Meeting with Ban Ki-Moon
Blog | Tuesday, 19 Nov 2013Today was the official opening of the High-Level portion of the negotiations. My day started with a real thrill, meeting the U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon. Thanks to being an advisor to the...
Warsaw COP19 – Daily Blog – In which I get a pink badge!
Blog | Monday, 18 Nov 2013I started out early, memories of the appalling arrangements in Copenhagen left me not wanting to take any chances in a cold city. In Copenhagen at COP15, we had to line up and wait outside for hours...
Warsaw COP19 – Daily Blog
Blog | Sunday, 17 Nov 2013I will be here, in Warsaw over the next seven days, for what is called the “High Level Segment” of the 19th Conference of the Parties under the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. It is not...
The beginning of the end of Harper’s iron rule
Blog | Thursday, 31 Oct 2013Okay, maybe this is not really the beginning of the end. I think the beginning of the end may have been last spring when some of the Conservative back-benchers had the temerity to complain publicly...
Can you keep a secret?
Blog | Wednesday, 23 Oct 2013It could be a self-parody, but it isn’t. In the wake of the breaking scandal about Canada’s espionage unit spying on the Government of Brazil, I realized I wasn’t sure about the origins and mandate...
The Senate Scandal Is Really Stephen’s Scandal
Blog | Tuesday, 22 Oct 2013I tweeted last night that Andrew Coyne had the best line of the day. In his Post Media column he called the senate events “edifying” and went on to describe the situation as one of “discreet...
The mania for monuments
Blog | Tuesday, 22 Oct 2013My intention with the Speech from the Throne, as in all my work as a Member of Parliament, is to quicken the pulse of democracy -- to find ways to increase awareness among Canadians about the...
Two years
Blog | Saturday, 19 Oct 2013Two years.Two years today -- that’s how long we have to prepare for the next election.As Deputy National Campaign Manager for the 2015 election, my job starts right now.Two years may seem like an...
EU-Canada trade agreement - Far-reaching deal threatens agriculture, services and environment protection
Blog | Saturday, 19 Oct 2013Green MEPs will also fight CETA. - Elizabeth Commenting on the conclusion of negotiations between the EU and Canada on a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, Green trade policy spokesperson...
Cross-Canada Townhall Road Trip
Blog | Wednesday, 09 Oct 2013Since my last article in Island Tides, I have spoken almost from coast to coast to coast: from Victoria to Halifax and Fredericton, and to our north—Whitehorse and Dawson City. As we drove by Lake...