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A message from Elizabeth May
Blog | Wednesday, 30 Dec 2020Dear friends, With 2020 drawing to a close, I don’t think any of us will miss it! As Greens, we never took our eye off the ball. Even during COVID-19, the climate emergency continues to demand our...
A message from Paul Manly: Lessons learned in unprecedented times
Blog | Monday, 28 Dec 2020Dear friends, As 2020 comes to a close I have been reflecting on what we’ve learned. It is painfully obvious that our social safety net was not up to the challenges we faced this year. Before the...
Michael Moore’s dreadful, ill-informed, unhelpful film
Blog | Sunday, 26 Apr 2020During a Green Party webinar last week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, one message from a member of the audience caught my attention: “Michael Moore presents Planet of the Humans, a...
Statement on the 2019 Canadian federal election
Blog | Friday, 18 Oct 2019As we head into the 2019 federal election, let's keep in mind that we're in the midst of a global climate and mass extinction crisis. This crisis threatens growing resource scarcity, the extinction...
Green Party of Canada Housing Policies: A Closer Look
Blog | Tuesday, 08 Oct 2019The Green Party of Canada has put forward an ambitious housing plank that re-imagines the role that the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation plays in facilitating the fulfillment of housing...
Responding to the proposed Assessment Framework on Inefficient Fossil Fuel Subsidies
Blog | Thursday, 11 Jul 2019Liberals promised to eliminate subsidies to fossil fuels, but so did Harper in 2009. Instead, we have increased subsidies to LNG - as if it wasn't a fossil fuel. So the government claims it cannot...
What's possible after Nanaimo-Ladysmith
Blog | Wednesday, 08 May 2019Dear voters, Possible. That is the word we will bring forward from the Nanaimo-Ladysmith by-election. Possible. When we talk about a low-carbon future. When we talk about an equal and fair...
"Why I left the NDP and joined the Greens"
Blog | Friday, 03 May 2019Bruce Hyer is a biologist and forester and small business person (ecotourism) from Thunder Bay, where he was the MP from 2008-2015. On May 6, Nanaimo-Ladysmith will go to the polls to choose a new MP...
The Left? The Right?
Blog | Monday, 14 Jan 2019Last week, Maclean’s requested Elizabeth May’s Green perspective on a piece they were working on about the current left-right spectrum of Canadian politics. Elizabeth May responded that Greens do not...
Report from Poland
Blog | Wednesday, 12 Dec 2018When I was in my twenties, and living in a one-room log cabin in Cape Breton with my parents and brother, we heated with an old stove, called a “Warm Morning.” It burned coal. Cape Breton was then...