politics

Linda Duncan of Redmonton reveals what keeps her busy in Ottawa, and what envelopes she feels the need to push in another profile of a dynamic environmental icon by Nicola Ross.

CAN YOU NAME THE Canadian environmental lawyer who once headed up law enforcement for the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation, was an assistant deputy minister in the Government of Yukon, was chief of enforcement for Environment Canada, was vice president of the Sierra Legal Defence Fund (now Ecojustice) and taught law at Dalhousie? ...

After witnessing the destruction caused by an Australian prawn trawler, Jennifer Lash returned to Canada where she founded and is executive director of the Living Oceans Society. She urges Canada to finally use its legislative ability to establish marine protected areas.

FOR A SHORT TWO-WEEK period every spring, before the leaves burst their buds, the warm spring sun penetrates the deepest nooks and crannies in the small cottage where I live. Its rays illuminate the grit and cobwebs that have accumulated over the long, dark winter. Sparkling dust rises toward the sun as if it was a cobra under a flutist’s spell. For this brief interlude in May, anything seems possible. The barren maples, ash and elms that tower above me don’t obscure the sun or block my view.