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The search for heroes
Blog | Thursday, 26 Jul 2012On Wednesday, June 13th, just after Question Period and before the tabling of amendments to the Omnibus Budget Bill C-38, a rally took place outside Parliament. The on-line advocacy group leadnow.com...
May Demands Public Inquiry into Future of Strategic Resource - Latest Chinese Acquisition in Oil Sands Raises Serious Concerns
Media Release | Tuesday, 24 Jul 2012OTTAWA – The proposed purchase of Calgary-based Nexen Inc., Canada’s 12th-largest energy company, by the China National Offshore Oil Company, CNOOC Ltd., for $15.1-billion (U.S.) should be setting...
Elizabeth May to Speak at Save Katimavik Rally - Green Party Leader Says Conservatives Hurting Young People
Media Release | Thursday, 19 Jul 2012OTTAWA – Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, MP Saanich-Gulf Islands, will be speaking at a Toronto rally this weekend in an attempt to stop the national volunteer programme, Katimavik, from being...
Harper's Canada: Arms Trade More Important Than Human Life
Media Release | Tuesday, 17 Jul 2012OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada deplores the direction Canada has taken in the United Nations arms trade treaty negotiations that began July 2 in New York. In its opening statement at the...
Green Party Opposes Incineration in Yukon - Build Canada Fund Burns Garbage
Media Release | Monday, 16 Jul 2012OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada is fuming about the use of Build Canada Fund money to burn garbage in Haines Junction, Yukon. The village – the Gateway to Kluane National Park – plans to burn the...
Green Convention to be held in BC this August
Media Release | Monday, 16 Jul 2012SIDNEY - The Saanich-Gulf Islands riding association is proud to host the 2012 Green Party Convention in Sidney, BC, on August 17-19th, 2012. The convention will be held at the beautiful Mary...
Canada still has no plan to address climate change
Blog | Monday, 16 Jul 2012There is no shortage of compelling issues to discuss in a Hill Times Environmental Policy briefing. Even listing, without describing, the catalogue of assaults on environmental law and policy by the...
Harper Conservatives’ Policies Make Mockery of International Convention to Protect Wetlands
Media Release | Friday, 13 Jul 2012OTTAWA – The 11th Meeting of the UN Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (COP11) wrapped up today in Bucharest, Romania. This international effort to conserve...
Secret Trans-Pacific Trade Talks Are Good News for Harper’s Corporate Supporters
Media Release | Thursday, 12 Jul 2012OTTAWA – The thirteenth round of Trans-Pacific Partnership Free Trade Agreement (TPP) negotiations concluded in San Diego yesterday after the White House formally informed Congress that Canada would...
Values that rub off
Blog | Wednesday, 11 Jul 2012Canada has two approaches when dealing with totalitarian regimes. If they have no money or inclination to invest, we are quick to condemn and to shut such nations out of the room (as in the case of...