You will find sa国际传媒楾oday in B.C.sa国际传媒� podcasts on , , , and podcasts.

On this edition of sa国际传媒楾oday in B.C.sa国际传媒� host Peter McCully talks with the Green Party of Canada leader, Elizabeth May.

Stephanie May, Elizabethsa国际传媒檚 mother, was a prominent activist in New York during the 1950s and was successful in helping to getting a nuclear test ban treaty.

sa国际传媒淚tsa国际传媒檚 like being the daughter of a family of cobblers,sa国际传媒� said Elizabeth May. sa国际传媒淚sa国际传媒檓 going to know a lot about shoes. Being the daughter of Stephanie May, an activist. It was totally my direction. It was charted at about age two.sa国际传媒�

McCully asked May about serving as leader of the Green Party for a second time after retiring as leader in 2019.

sa国际传媒淚 have to say this, Peter, I ran not because the party was in turmoil or I was the saviour person to show up,sa国际传媒� she said. sa国际传媒淚 needed to have the credibility and the profile of Leader of the Green Party in Parliament to be able to have an effective voice at the national level on issues that are critical and time is running out and there are many of them.sa国际传媒�

In 2019, May married John Kidder, one of the founders of the B.C. Green party, and says she and her husband wrote a book together last year.

sa国际传媒淲e end up debating ideas and we wrote a book together that came out last year,sa国际传媒� said May. sa国际传媒淚tsa国际传媒檚 in the sa国际传媒楧ummiessa国际传媒� series, Climate Change for Dummies, that was really hard work, and one of the reasons it was hard work was we kept coming up with new ideas, researching them, and then we had to convince the sa国际传媒楧ummiessa国际传媒� people that we could dumb down these new ideas and put them in a sa国际传媒楧ummiessa国际传媒� book.sa国际传媒�

The wide-ranging interview includes Maysa国际传媒檚 take on the U.S. Supreme Court overturning Rowe vs. Wade, and the COP 15 Biodiversity talks in Montreal.

If you have suggestions or comments, send a voice message to you may be part of our audio podcast mailbag segment.

LISTEN:

LISTEN:

Like us on and follow us on