On the morning of Saturday October 7, 2023, I awoke to appalling news. It flooded all airwaves as the lead item, sometimes the only item on every newscast. The day after the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, Hamas had launched a most audacious military operation from Gaza – literally invading the apartheid state…
Category: events
November virtual screenings: double bill documentaries!
In July of this year, I began hosting monthly Fireside Film Nights, a free monthly online series featuring progressive films and panel discussions. My goal was to attract 100 viewers by July 2022. By two months later in September, the viewing audience had increased slightly faster than I had hoped to approximately 50, but still…
Keep the climate ball rolling!
On Friday, I, along with 100,000 other people, took part in the strike for climate action here in Vancouver. I closed my office at noon, and I’m so glad to say that all of my office staff, along with my partner Penny, took part. The turnout was beyond my wildest expectations! The crowd stretched from…
Human change NOT climate change!
On Friday, September 27, I’ll be closing my law office. All of us working there will be taking part in the General Strike for Climate Action, which culminates a week of climate action not just in Vancouver, but around the world. Even the UN Secretary General is holding a climate summit on Monday, September 23…
A Made-in-Canada Green New Deal
We’ve heard a lot in the news lately about the Green New Deal being brought forward in the States by people like the popular Democrat Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Now there’s also a Green New Deal for Canada. But what exactly does this mean? To start, we’re all pretty clear about what needs to be done…
March 15 student strikes for climate action — join the rally as an ally!
I am very inspired by Greta Thunberg. She’s the 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist who sat, alone, on the cobblestones of the Swedish parliament one Friday last August, demanding action on climate change. She’s sat there almost every Friday since — in rain, sun, ice and snow — inspiring a worldwide movement of student action. Last…
COPE is definitely back!
If you support COPE and the kind of progressive policies it stands for, I’ve got good news for you. Last Sunday, I attended the COPE nomination meeting — the first COPE meeting I’ve attended in almost a year since I started stepping away from my executive role with the party. What a breath of fresh…