Alexa McDonough: Trailblazing politician and activist, says new book
Alexa McDonough: Trailblazing politician and activist, says new book
Watch how she helped rescue Maher Arar from the grip of the CIA
Former Member of Parliament for Halifax, and leader of the Nova Scotia's and Canada’s New Democrats, Alexa McDonough is a trailblazer in many ways.
Her amazing career is retold by author Stephen Kimber in his new biography Alexa!: Changing the Face of Canadian Politics.
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Many PeaceQuest supporters will know Alexa McDonough from her early battles as the lone female MLA in a hostile Nova Scotian legislature to her leadership of the federal NDP to her role as senior stateswoman in Jack Layton’s shadow cabinet as Foreign Affairs Critic.
You may also know her as an MP with a strong connection to the peace movement.
In this interview with PeaceQuest’s Steven Staples, author Stephen Kimber talks about her work and her pivotal role in the world after 9/11, and in freeing one of Canada's most famous casualties of those dark days, Maher Arar.
