Jane is a retired physiotherapist who loved her work with those having suffered strokes at the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation Centre. She worked with doctors, nurses and other team members who all gave excellent care but were under increasing pressures in a deteriorating healthcare system. Home supports dwindled leaving many patients no alternative but to wait the many months for nursing home beds.

Jane is a long-time resident of West Dover, next to Peggy’s Cove, but spent her early years in Saint John with the refinery in her backyard. In those early days, she came to understand the environmental harm that can result from extractive industry and how lobbyists influence the rules and regulations of governments for their gain and the publics harm.

This history inspired in her the need to act in community organizations, activism groups and political parties. Jane was a board member of St. Margaret’s Bay Stewardship Association and the Chebucto Community Health Board, active with the Energy Issues Committee of the Ecology Action Centre and participated in many efforts to save public health care, raise the alarm of impending climate crisis and improve politics in Nova Scotia.

When Jane isn’t volunteering with the Green Party, she enjoys the beauty that Nova Scotia offers
through hiking, listening to our talented musicians and connecting with others who care so much about one another.