The Montreal Protocol
Blog | Elizabeth May | Saturday, 15 Sep 2007Tomorrow will be a great day in Montreal as the whole United Nations family gathers to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the negotiation of the Montreal Protocol. In September, 1987, Canada led...
A star goes out
Blog | Elizabeth May | Tuesday, 11 Sep 2007You probably know the name Anita Roddick. Maybe you have read about her as the phenomenon who launched Body Shop. I worked with her, knew her through a series of funny phone calls, met her husband...
Twenty-Six
Blog | Elizabeth May | Saturday, 08 Sep 2007Earlier this summer, Farley and Claire Mowat lent me a book they had really loved -- Twenty-Six. The author, Leo McKay, Jr., was born and raised in Stellarton, Nova Scotia. His first novel, Like...
Labour Day
Blog | Elizabeth May | Monday, 03 Sep 2007We drove back to Ottawa, my daughter and I, in our new Prius. Ordinarily, being car-less for so long, we would have flown or taken the train. We have had to fly for the last few years since VIA...
Home movies from Montebello
Blog | Elizabeth May | Thursday, 23 Aug 2007In case you missed it, here is the Youtube link showing the confrontation at Montebello between Union organizer Dave Coles, President of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, and three...
Thoughts from the river
Blog | Elizabeth May | Wednesday, 15 Aug 2007Water was not just splashing; it was being shoveled into my lap as a team of keen, and somewhat inexperienced paddlers set out to conquer the event called the "dragon boat race". The Race on the...
Prius blog
Blog | Elizabeth May | Monday, 06 Aug 2007As readers of the Globe and Mail will know, I just got my new silver Prius! (I admit, parenthetically, that it is an odd sensation to know that the routine and mundane aspects of my life now seem to...
Wind Power Flaps
Blog | Elizabeth May | Monday, 16 Jul 2007This last week there have been a number of wind power related controversies. One played out through the blog pages of this web site; another continues to rage in the little village of Pugwash, Nova...
Pugwash and Hiroshima
Blog | Elizabeth May | Sunday, 08 Jul 2007I’ve spent much of the last few days in Pugwash, Nova Scotia. This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of an historic process that began here at the home of Canadian industrialist Cyrus Eaton. Eaton...
About Colleen
Blog | Elizabeth May | Wednesday, 04 Jul 2007Adriane Carr has already posted a lovely tribute to our mutual friend, the incomparable activist Colleen McCrory. I know the memorials and accolades will flood in, as they should. The shock is...
