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Green Party National Convention Takes a Local Approach
Media Release | Sunday, 12 Aug 2012SAANICH-GULF ISLANDS -The Green Party is holding its 2012 National Convention in Sidney, BC, situated in the Saanich-Gulf Islands riding of its federal leader, Elizabeth May. In the 2011 Election,...
International Youth Day - Building a Better World: Partnering with Youth
Media Release | Sunday, 12 Aug 2012OTTAWA - On December 17, 1999, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution designating August 12 as International Youth Day. This was a timely call to action aimed at inspiring the world’...
Harper Conservatives' Emission Cuts Are Just More Hot Air
Media Release | Thursday, 09 Aug 2012OTTAWA – The Harper Conservatives released their updated Canada’s Emissions Trends Report yesterday and, true to form, Environment Minister Peter Kent is determined to take credit for the fact that...
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Statement | Thursday, 09 Aug 2012OTTAWA - The Green Party of Canada is joining with many across the globe to mark the International Day of the World's Indigenous People on August 9. This year's theme is: "Indigenous Media,...
British Columbia “firewall” anyone?
Blog | Wednesday, 08 Aug 2012For anyone familiar with Stephen Harper’s role as a provincial rights advocate, the federal posturing on the Enbridge risky tanker and pipeline scheme is more than ironic. It is a 180 degree about...
When it Comes to the Pipeline, Harper Talks in Circles
Blog | Wednesday, 08 Aug 2012Yesterday in British Columbia, Prime Minister Stephen Harper tried to sound a note of reason on the subject of the increasingly unpopular proposal to build 1,100 kilometres of pipeline through the...
Long August Weekend covers new Harper deadline - Condemn Harper Conservatives for Anti-Democratic Process
Media Release | Tuesday, 07 Aug 2012OTTAWA – On Friday, August 3, 2012, Environment Minister Peter Kent sent a letter to the Joint Review Panel currently studying Enbridge’s proposal to build a twinned pipeline over 1100 kilometres...
August 6th is Hiroshima Day
Statement | Monday, 06 Aug 2012OTTAWA -- Today, thousands across the globe will take part in commemoration ceremonies to remember the dropping of the first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 and the...
National energy strategy possible, federal leadership missing
Blog | Sunday, 05 Aug 2012For decades, the legacy of the National Energy Program left politicians so shell-shocked and risk-averse that they were unwilling to even moot the need for a national energy policy.Now that the...
Restitution
Blog | Friday, 03 Aug 2012A few weeks ago I talked to a Globe and Mail reporter about the possibilities for cross party cooperation. I shared with her that (my own opinion, and not a party decision) that a good place to start...