Elizabeth May

The budget omnibus bill was best "described by Terry Glavin recently as a "statutory juggernaut that introduces, amends, or repeals nearly 70 federal laws."

What Canadians are beginning to realize is that the budget omnibus bill, or Bill C-38, is an outrage. There is much in...

The Harper Conservatives have dropped any pretense that they care about Canada's natural environment, and have reduced the federal government's oversight role to miniscule proportions. Their justifications to chip away at Canada's Environmental Assessment Act (CEAA) are inaccurate and should be corrected.

According to the Canadian...

In July 2010, I wrote a column for my local paper, Island Tides, on the government's decision to buy 65 F-35 fighter jets. Now that the Auditor General has confirmed what everyone knew -- that the planes were wildly over budget and that we were being...

Lately, a lot of allegations have been made that there were election irregularities and some outright crimes committed in the 2011 election. What we do not know is who was responsible.

But we may be dealing with a serial offender, or offenders. When one thinks about the election skulduggery of...

No doubt the Harper Conservatives are strategic -- even clever. The major national media seems to take the budget as somehow "less" -- less awful, less ruthless, less impact than they had expected. Even changing retirement age from 65 to 67 had lost its shock value with the prime minister's...

Confession: I am a pack rat who rarely throws out files. Last night I found the environmental assessment [EA] from the first EA process in which I participated. The Wreck Cove Hydroelectric Project EA was mailed to me on April 28, 1977. So that makes 35 years experience in environmental...

It is proving more difficult than I had expected to pick one event worthy of the superlative "Biggest Story of 2011." The May election brought many changes to the face of Parliament. Each party was historically transformed -- to their joy or despair. The two parties that suffered the most,...

I am just back from Durban and COP17. So is Peter Kent. Only he came back and announced that Canada will strike a blow at the fragile agreement that was just produced. As I am sure you have heard, Canada has filed the legal paperwork to withdraw from Kyoto.

Never...

The reality is that the U.S. president is not all powerful....