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This session of parliament
Blog | Thursday, 04 Jul 2013The headlines covered some of what happened: scandals, Senate fraud, a $90,000 cheque from the prime minister’s chief of staff, Nigel Wright, (who quickly became the former chief of staff) to pay off...
Climate Jeopardy
Blog | Friday, 28 Jun 2013A. “Up a creek.’ Q. What is President Obama’s climate action plan and where does that leave Stephen Harper? I would have suggested the answer was “high and dry,” but given the increasing likelihood...
How Greens Vote in the EU Parliament
Blog | Friday, 28 Jun 2013My daughter Cate just graduated from Kings University in Halifax in May and has been interning in Brussels with a friend of mine, Catherine Greze, Green Party of France MEP in the European Parliament...
What I Would Change About Politics in Canada
Blog | Monday, 24 Jun 2013Democracy is, as Winston Churchill once quipped, the worst system of government, except all the others that have been tried. He also, less famously said, “The best argument against democracy is a...
Praising the Federation of Canadian Municipalities
Blog | Sunday, 23 Jun 2013I remain so grateful to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities for your leadership on issues of sustainability. Municipalities, large and small, rural and urban, represent a level of government...
Green Party of Canada Expresses Sympathy for Southern Alberta Flood Victims
Statement | Friday, 21 Jun 2013OTTAWA, Ontario, and CALGARY, Alberta — The Green Party of Canada (GPC) today expressed its sympathy for all those affected by the unprecedented flooding in Calgary and Southern Alberta. The GPC also...
Greens Celebrate National Aboriginal Day; Praise Aboriginal Activism
Statement | Friday, 21 Jun 2013The Green Party of Canada today recognizes National Aboriginal Day, a time to celebrate the heritage and achievements of Canada’s three Aboriginal groups – the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis. It...
Conservatives to Diminish Access to Top Astronomy Interpretive Centre/Historic Site
Media Release | Friday, 21 Jun 2013OTTAWA - The Harper Conservatives will be cutting back public access to the Centre of the Universe, an astronomy interpretive centre and national historic site in Victoria, BC, at the end of August...
Greens Mark UN World Refugee Day
Statement | Thursday, 20 Jun 2013It should not come as a surprise that the focus for this year’s UN World Refugee Day, established in 2000 to raise awareness about the plight of refugees, is on the impact of war on families. The...
The latest attempt to deny climate science
Blog | Wednesday, 19 Jun 2013In case you missed it, earlier this month an article appeared in a little known physics journal, rated by scientists as of ‘low influence,’ the International Journal of Modern Physics B. The article...