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Green Party Questions Harper Government Silence on Turkish Democracy Crisis
Media Release | Monday, 03 Jun 2013OTTAWA - Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, MP Saanich-Gulf Islands, today expressed her dismay at the deafening silence from the Harper Conservatives to the deteriorating political situation in...
U.S. says climate change high risk’ to federal assets, Canada has no infrastructure adaptation plan
Blog | Sunday, 02 Jun 2013One of my favourite political satirical works is Terry Fallis’s The High Road. It should be assigned reading for policy studies on infrastructure. It does a brilliant job of explaining the perils of...
May Recognized for Lifelong Environmental Work
Media Release | Friday, 31 May 2013OTTAWA - The Green Party of Canada is proud to announce that Leader Elizabeth May, MP, Saanich-Gulf Islands, yesterday received a citation from the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (...
Greens Mark UN Peacekeeping Day with Warning to Canadians
Media Release | Wednesday, 29 May 2013OTTAWA - The Green Party of Canada today marks UN Peacekeeping Day by warning Canadians that their once-proud role in international peacekeeping has been systematically whittled away. According to...
Conservatives/Liberals Nix National Security Definition
Media Release | Tuesday, 28 May 2013OTTAWA - Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, MP Saanich-Gulf Islands, today expressed her frustration and concern after Conservative and Liberal Members of Parliament in the Finance Committee voted...
What is the meaning of 'defence' in the 21st Century?
Blog | Sunday, 26 May 2013We continue to discuss defence without first posing some essential questions: will we be at war? With whom? And what are the real security threats to Canada? It should be clear that, since the Second...
Judge Agrees 2011 Election Plagued by Fraud; Conservatives Implicated
Media Release | Friday, 24 May 2013OTTAWA – Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, MP Saanich-Gulf Islands, today expressed gratitude for the dedication and perseverance of the Council of Canadians along with eight voter applicants after ...
Newsletter - Investor-State Treaties
Blog | Thursday, 23 May 2013Why should Canadians care about investor-state treaties? One of the issues that was frequently raised in the last round of town hall meetings I held with constituents in January 2013 was the threat...
Green Party Marks International Day for Biodiversity
Statement | Wednesday, 22 May 2013The Green Party today celebrates the UN International Day for Biodiversity (IDB), designed to promote and protect the diversity of our ecosystems, species, genes, even our landscape. The IDB was...
400 ppm
Blog | Tuesday, 21 May 2013We have now crossed a dangerous line in the global build up of greenhouse gases. Greenhouse gas concentrations have moved from the pre-Industrial Revolution level that never exceeded 280 parts per...