A quick update from me for 2026 ! I continue to update this website with news and things of interest – including from the Archives. The contact form is regularly monitored and responses provided as needed. You can also follow my activities on FB, Instagram, X and BlueSky.

2026 begins a new venture for me – the launch of a small non profit to help non profits (sort of a handy person fix it service for non profits!) along with Kim Elliott and Matt Adams. Please check it out! groundandsky.org to see what services we provide.

We are open for business !

Best wishes

Libby

I have been an active advocate for Free Palestine for decades. As we head into 2026, I am ever mindful of the ongoing genocide taking place and the urgent need to continue to speak out for the upholding of international law, peace and justice, and recognition of a legitimate Palestinian statehood. As a Member of Parliament I was honoured to visit the occupied territories and Gaza on two occasions. So, from the film archives of 2009, after the brutal “Operation Cast Lead”, an excerpt from independent filmmaker Jase Tanner of Vancouver, detailing our CODE PINK delegation to Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza.  View the film here.

Libby discusses the NDP leadership race on  rabble.ca Off The Hill, live panel on Jan 6, 2026. Watch the video here.

Libby participates in the Razing Palestine book launch at Upstart and Crow in Vancouver.  Watch the video here.

Concerns are raised by Libby and other individuals associated with Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside that the proposed changes to the DTES plan risk affordable housing for local residents.  Read the full article here.

Libby and writer and performer Steen Starr reflect on the Modernization of Benefits and Obligations Act passed in Canada in 2000, a landmark law that formally recognized same-sex couples under federal statute milestone, and the freedoms that came from it.

Listen to the podcast here.

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Libby joins Charlie Angus at Molly’s Reach, the most iconic coffee shop in Canada where the CBC filmed the famous television sitcom “The Beachcombers” for 18 years.  Watch the video here.

Libby speaks in conversation with “Building Left” about the renewal of the NDP and politics in Canada.   Listen to the podcast here.

Libby and other former elected officials are taking their fight to court to change how voters elect their civic politicians.   Read the full article here.

More from the archives! Vancouver became a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone in the 1983 – the first Canadian city to do so. Fast forward almost 40 years to 2022, to a Global TV interview with Squire Barnes, marking this history and the remaining NWFZ signs still evident in Vancouver today. Besides the sign noted in the story – I know of one other sign – as you enter Vancouver off the Ironworks Memorial Bridge just before New Brighton park. There might still be one on East 1st Ave too, as you leave the hiway and enter the city of Vancouver. Back in the day every major street into Vancouver had such a sign. And then there was the swimming around a warship event…. Check it out in the same story !