Late night on the train
Don’t wake the sleeping passengers....
Nancy Macdonald
Nancy Macdonald writes primarily for Maclean’s national section. The transplanted Winnipegger now calls Vancouver home and spends her off-hours chasing her spirited toddler.
Whistlestop #2: Pajama party in Kamloops
At 3 a.m., 40 Green supporters and local media greeted May in Kamloops. It was pitch black and cold. The rest of the train was...
Whistlestop#1: Mission
A crowd of 30 braved the rain to greet May at her first stop in Mission, in B.C.’s Lower Mainland. She hopped gamely from the...
Elizabeth May Whistlestop Tour 2008
The green scene before we left Vancouver Sunday:
Elizabeth May Whistlestop Tour
Mark Emery, Prince of Pot, Marijuana Party leader and perennial scourge of the US Justice Department also turned out to wish...
Elizabeth May Whistlestop Tour
Deputy party leader Adriane Carr joined Wilson up at the mic wearing neither green nor red. Carr—said to have arm-twisted May...
Elizabeth May Whistlestop Tour
Newly-minted Green MP Blair Wilson wore not one, but two shades of green to the Whistlestop kick-off rally in...
And we’re off
Elizabeth May arrived at Vancouver’s Union Station in a convoy of tiny, jet black plug-in trucks. She jumped into the waiting arms...
All aboard! Elizabeth May Whistlestop Tour 2008
In just five hours, Green party leader Elizabeth May will leave Vancouver on an old-time whistle-stop train tour to drum up party...
Winnipeg’s other Izzy
Israel — “Izzy” — Idonije packed on 20 pounds this summer. T at the University of Manitoba. He wasn’t offered a...