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Elizabeth May Applauds New Step Towards Asbestos Ban
Media Release | Tuesday, 18 Sep 2012Long Overdue Decision Welcomed With Relief by Green Leader OTTAWA – Green Party Leader Elizabeth May today applauded the Government of Canada’s decision to stop blocking the international community’...
Greens mourn the passing of Peter Lougheed
Media Release | Friday, 14 Sep 2012The Green Party joins all Canadians in mourning the passing of former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed, who died yesterday at age 84. “I was so very sad to hear of Peter Lougheed's death,” said...
The Edmonton-Vancouver Pipeline Expansion Should be Stopped
Media Release | Wednesday, 12 Sep 2012Vancouver, BC and Federal Green Leaders Collectively Oppose Pipeline Expansion OTTAWA/VANCOUVER – Leaders representing municipal, provincial and federal Green parties held a press conference in...
Calgary Reconsidered
Blog | Tuesday, 11 Sep 2012Six truths about the city that’s no longer, simply, Cowtown Chris Turner I first came to know Calgary, as many do, driving along highways and broad suburban avenues, through the nowhere geography of...
Life sciences and the commodification of everything
Blog | Monday, 10 Sep 2012It was once the case that the term “life sciences” meant the scientific study of living organisms. It meant biology, zoology, ecology, and even bio-ethics. In what must have been a public relations...
Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement; Welcomed -- but will there be follow through?
Media Release | Friday, 07 Sep 2012WASHINGTON – Environment Minister Peter Kent signed a newly amended Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement with Lisa P. Jackson, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in Washington...
Emissions Regulations for Coal-Fired Power are Dangerously Inadequate
Media Release | Friday, 07 Sep 2012OTTAWA – The Green Party of Canada is deploring the Harper Conservatives' dangerously inadequate emissions regulations for coal-fired power plants. “The final version of the regulations are even...
Stephen Harper and the melting Arctic
Blog | Thursday, 06 Sep 2012In what has become an annual media photo-op, Stephen Harper made his seasonal trek to Canada’s North in August. The bravado of proclamations of “use it or lose it” Arctic sovereignty and flexing of...
Green Party Expresses Sorrow for Victims of Violence Following Quebec Election
Media Release | Wednesday, 05 Sep 2012OTTAWA - The Green Party of Canada is saddened and horrified by the fatal shooting last night at Pauline Marois’ Parti Québécois victory party in Montreal. "Violence in the political arena is never...
Labour Day brings Concern over Erosion of Workers' Rights
Media Release | Monday, 03 Sep 2012OTTAWA - This Labour Day, the Green Party is expressing concern over the maintenance of labour rights in Canada. "It is so important that the federal government support the right of all workers in...