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Why we need a national Lyme disease strategy
Blog | Sunday, 06 Oct 2013I know a health policy briefing should touch on all areas of health policy. We have critical issues ahead as we work to protect universal access to top-notch health care, reduce wait-times and drug...
Climate science settled – Earth is warming, climate stability is a thing of the past, and humans are responsible
Blog | Saturday, 28 Sep 2013The Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, all 900 pages - will be officially tabled on Monday. Meanwhile, the key chapters and the Summary for Policy Makers...
Taking Town Halls on the Road
Blog | Wednesday, 25 Sep 2013From September 4-13, I held the fall 2013 round of Town Halls in Saanich-Gulf Islands. The Town Hall meeting is my favourite way to connect directly with voters between elections. And the fact that...
Doing Enbridge’s homework
Blog | Thursday, 12 Sep 2013The very idea that the federal government, having slashed scientific research into climate change, freshwater science, ozone depletion and contamination of marine mammals (to provide an incomplete...
Reality Check: Northern Gateway Project
Blog | Friday, 06 Sep 2013We were anticipating that the Conservative response to our press conference about the internal government activity, labeled "Northern Gateway Project," consuming $78 million this year and $42 million...
What’s in those pipelines?
Blog | Tuesday, 20 Aug 2013Canadians now have a dizzying array of pipeline proposals dominating news coverage. They are presented as though they are alternative options. Problems getting pipelines to the US approved? Show...
Canada is missing out on global clean-tech revolution
Blog | Sunday, 11 Aug 2013Remember the 2008 Speech from the Throne? I may be the only one who does. In the context of “Securing our energy future by developing our rich energy resources and pursuing new cleaner energy...
Harper’s enemies list
Blog | Wednesday, 31 Jul 2013The political news of the summer was supposed to be the Cabinet shuffle. It had been hyped well in advance. Unexpectedly, it was the leak of the compilation of an “enemies list” that distracted us...
Oil sands: the difficult poster child for Canada’s environmental record
Blog | Tuesday, 30 Jul 2013The Government of Canada will clearly spare no expense in extolling the environmental virtues of oil sands bitumen. We spend millions in promotion, domestic advertizing for our “Responsible Resource...
Canada Day prescription
Blog | Thursday, 18 Jul 2013On my Canada Day travels, I was asked what I would change about democracy in Canada. There is so much wrong in the current state of politics that people might think there is no available remedy. The...