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Greens condemn ideologically-driven layoffs
Wednesday, 22 Jun 2011 - OTTAWA - The Harper government has begun its slashing of the public sector by eliminating more than twenty percent of the National Research Council’s budget. This is in addition to the 50 jobs cut...
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On June 21, Canadians celebrate National Aboriginal Day
Tuesday, 21 Jun 2011 - OTTAWA - National Aboriginal Day can serve to remind us that Canada has a long way to go in addressing the profound inequality of life on First Nations Reserves and life for off-reserve urban...
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Food Prices on agenda at G20 Agriculture Ministers Summit
Monday, 20 Jun 2011 - OTTAWA - The Green Party of Canada is calling on Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz to show real leadership at the upcoming G20 Agriculture Meetings in Paris by supporting efforts to stabilize the price...
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Another chance to list Asbestos as Hazardous: Will Canada block again?
Monday, 20 Jun 2011 - OTTAWA - The Green Party is reiterating its call for Canada’s government to step out of the way of chrysotile asbestos being listed as a hazardous substance under the United Nations Rotterdam...
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Greens pleased government agrees to hearings on “mega trials” bill
Thursday, 16 Jun 2011 - OTTAWA –The Green Party is pleased the government and other opposition parties have agreed to a compromise, allowing expedited hearings on the so-called “mega trials” legislation. “Legislation like...
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Canada failing Kyoto Protocol commitments and the planet
Wednesday, 15 Jun 2011 - OTTAWA - Green Leader Elizabeth May today held a press conference about Canada's dismal performance at the UN climate change negotiations now taking place in Bonn. The negotiations started last...
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Greens will not allow mega-trial bill to proceed without due consideration
Tuesday, 14 Jun 2011 - OTTAWA –Demonstrating that one MP can make a difference in Parliament, Green Party Leader and MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands, Elizabeth May, is denying unanimous consent in the House of Commons to fast-...
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End sealing subsidies and keep DFO conservation programs, say Greens
Tuesday, 14 Jun 2011 - OTTAWA – The Green Party says the Conservative government should axe federal subsidies to the commercial seal hunt to find budgetary savings in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. The government...
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Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom Hashoah
Tuesday, 14 Jun 2011 - OTTAWA - National Holocaust Remembrance Day will be observed at a ceremony on June 14 at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. Elizabeth May will attend on behalf of the Green Party of Canada. “I...
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Greens fear that NATO "mission creep" in Libya undermines R2P deterrence potential in Syria crisis.
Monday, 13 Jun 2011 - OTTAWA - NATO's "mission creep" under its United Nations Responsibility To Protect (R2P) mandate in Libya - which now apparently creeps to heavy continuous bombing of Tripoli to effect regime change...
